New Year's Eve with the magnolia

Illustration: Van Nguyen

Next to the orchid

New Year's Eve

I wait for you that moment...

Each young leaf trembles

Excitedly sipping tea

In the lingering scent of jasmine

Oh! The flower...

Night blooming orchid

New Year steps on the threshold

Has a girlish scent

There is a red fire to warm trembling fingers

The thirtieth night the sky shook with drizzle

Her thin shirt is yellower than a fairy tale

Incense smoke drifts, distorting the New Year's Eve poem

Replace peach blossom with magnolia

Autumn storm

Peach blossoms all fall

Boil some thin Nhat Tan cold to welcome New Year's Eve...