Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
His biography: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Thanh Binh: Senior Lecturer of Faculty of the International Communication & Culture; Former Director, Dean of Faculty of The International Communication & Culture, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, 69 Chua Lang Street, Hanoi – Vietnam; From 2013-2016: Minister Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission, Vietnamese Embassy in Norway. Nowadays, he is member of Executive Committee Friendship of Vietnam – Japan and Vietnam Denmark Association; he has a lot of cooperation with Universities of Vietnam and of other countries. He is author of 26 monographs and reference books, scientific guiding many doctoral students, attending scientific conferences at home and abroad.
He has published some collections of his own poems (in Vietnamese and English), including: Singing (The Youth Publ. House,1996); Song of Harmony (The Literature Publ. House, 2003); Melodious Poetry (The Literature Publ. House, 2008); This world I love (The Literature Publ. House, 2013); Fluting atop mountain (Writers’ Association Publ. House, 2019); Haiku poetry& Free style poetry (Writers’ Association Publ. House, 2020); Three clouds & mountains (Writers’ Association Publ. House, 2022). He also composed a number of songs about love, his motherland.
His poems:
Summer days in Toronto remembrance
Summer’s ending in Toronto, sunlight hesitating like shiny smooth silk,
Clouds in the blue sky, squirrels running among the rows of flowers,
Golden sun beams jumped on the shoulder, on your flowing hair…,
Remembrance! Stay with me, don’t let Autumn come!
Potomac river bank
Peacefully I walked on the edge of Potomac bank,
Carrying the Vietnamese soul, shooting a glance in the Western sun beams,
The streaming river reflects the high American sky,
Promenading along, the blood curled back to the homeland.
After the rain
Soon as the night rain let up,
The frogs begun to croak in earnest
The poet sat in sleeplessness
Auditorium in the Summer
End of Summer in Montreal,
Students, teachers away from campus,
Dragonflies flew into the classroom.
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Spring breeze blowing slightly
Falling peach petals…
You utter softly sweet.
Comb the spring in hair
Your eyes fluttered more
Apricot blossom bloom dreamily
Apiary is faintly in the wind
Mountain town falls by the falls at dusk
Gliding butterflies, you carry water.
Dew mixes with land
The tree twigs around, you shudder
Remember love story the night before.
Haiku in spring
A sole wing
Flies breaking the dawn
Spring lake with greenish fog
Birds fly towards horizon
Someone stands on the river bank
Spring floods flow.
Bubbles on the lake’ surface
Broken into greenish water
Spring purple mountain heaving.
