Tropical Nights
I madly kiss you
in the long tropical nights .
The kisses help us back to our youth
to our teen-time full of missing ,waiting
desire , passion and excitement .
Do those tropical nights make you ,
sob by the sides of the rivers which babbly secrectly flow ?
Your black glossy hair of the fifteenish age,
your pigeon-eyes
your killing-glances,
and around us is the sweet smelling of night flowers,
all of them make me fall into the ecstasy of that silly time.
I kiss you again and again,
by all of my mad-hurricane love,
and you lay down by my side
nude as the wild virginly stream which is full of jades
My kisses run along all of your skin
as it run along the time axis from the first Big Bang , passed the Black Holes to the dawn of the Languages
From the Greek or Roma ancient , from the Egypt with its Pyramides and its portly majestic , serious Pharaon,
I kiss you to shreds,
passed through the torture of the Papel Courts of the Middle Ages
to the noisy time of Beattle , Jazz and Rock.
I tightly embrass you in my hands
by a wordly coarse and rude embrassement of an uneducated brute
who every evening drinks too much as a drunkard, reeling around towns .
I surprise look round-eyes at you
as the fisherman suddenly sees the water-monster
which is wandering swimming on the sea this evening .
I kiss you
with the madky hot kisses,
I will catch you
like the Africa-Lion
roar up his bawl of the deep forest and the wild desert
plays pranks with its prey
on the green grass-tapis
In the tropical nights,
please hold up your glass with me
and promise to give me an appointment in our rebirth,
again walking together under the dim moon-light.
In the endless nights, side by side, we hear the songs of the forest,
How lovely and meek as a little Java mouse-deer you are !.
On the top of the mountain, the cloud kisses the wind in a bustle,
for thousands years, the stream still no ending whispers,
have passed the deep and dark old jungle with its babble-love songs.
In the tropical nights, I wait for you on the sea-shore,
we exchange first salty kiss.
Far away, the island, and lonely waves
still crying for their despair-love against the rocky cliff,
and whitening their hair under the moon-light.
I kiss you
Insanely kiss you,
the kisses can disorder
all of the things that you own
from your baby year to your maiden-time .
Hey, all of the volcanoes
of the Pacific volcanoes arc !
Please bawl and get up from your sleep.
Please hurry up, competitively and noisily
release your dark smoke
to the deep blue sky.
Please spray out all of your lava for the big explosion
that can upset all of the three thousand worlds
to search for a satna of happiness .
Hey, all of the Disnosaurs,
please happily run after one another around and around
from Europe to Asia .
Hey all of the Biped and the Quadruped
Mammal or Unmammal,
Carnivorous or Ruminant,
Amphibias, Varants , Crocodiles,
Warm-blooded or Cold-blooded animals,
Reptiles or Bird-Classes,
Worms or Viruses,
Grasshopers Locusts, Crikets, Dragon-flies,
Mantis, Stink bugs, Dor-beetles,
Frogs, Toads, Shrew-mice, Brown rats,
Please all of you run out your caves , fly out from your nets,
Please make a big demonstration
and happily open the festival
for our opportunately rare existence,
Please sing freely as you will
the love-songs that we left out from the Primitive Age.
And thou, all kinds of the Solipedia, please obscure the blue sky by dust
from your toetapping’s music on the wild vast Africa sea of grass.
Please hinder all to day’s hot sun-light by a lot of wings of the refugee birds, disorderly and intricately fly, pell-mell whole of the two poles.
And in the air,
full of melody of millions of earthworm-crikets .
When I kiss you,
Hey, all of the Oceans !
Please shout loudly up your songs of hurricanes and storms,
and successively roar peals of thunders to make all circles of hell be frightened.
Please rise up to the sky your huge rolling , ferocious and impectuous Tsunamis
that induce together,
open an overflow festival,
throw up and break all the ships and boats , jet them to the farthest from the continent-verandas.
And all of the Whales, the Sharks
Hippocamous, Dolphins, Fress-water eels, Skates , Globe-fishes, Silure,
White Trionychid Turtles, Sea-Turtles, Lobsters, Prawns,
Macropodus, Young Fishes, Mosquito Larvaes, Tadpoles,
Please passionately dance like drunkards
jumping highly out of the water-surface,
don’t care about the splendid, bright sun-shine dawn or even in the sad desolate dusk,
not the secret nights nor the dreamy moon-lights.
In the tropical nights,
I kiss you under the vast purple sky
hold your hand to pass millions and millions Galaxies,
and when you turn your body,
a sweet grass-perfume on your skin,
It seems that the forest is going to suicide in its loneliness.
Ha Hong Hoang
Dec 02-1995