Epitath for The Artist

 Lệ Hà (1933-2012)             Oil on Canvas (120cmx120cm)

Shakespeare sonnet No.12

Epitaph for the artist*

Epitaph to think out of divine mercy

For the fine artist in my remembrance

The shooting star that my eyes have ever seen

When all is transient and will return to the sea

All is fading to be lost in the time flow

Your artworks in the colors of self living world

Will stay on to immortalize your name

And have an everlasting resonance

Bursting fire to enlighten the world darkness

Perennial flame to transcend human distress

Perhaps not yet now but all for the future

For the coming - very light of other shore

There will be in my lon' heart the monument

Heights of your life and creative moments

Ngovantao

*As in William Shakespeare’s sonnet No.81 (The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Edition):

“Or I shall live your Epitaph to make (the first line)

……

Your name from hence immortall life shall have….”

Shakespeare sonnet No.11

 Lệ Hà (1933-2012)         Oil on canvas (1mx1m)

Shakespeare Sonnet

“Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day”*

You are “summers day”, the dream of my life          

Forever as the sun that comes to shine

Along with fragrance of flowers in July

Shining over the sea and up in the blue sky

A fleeting image in the flow of time

Deep in my heart the memory of your smile

Perennial feeling albeit the changing world

Material things we endeared but could’nt hold

Fairy tal’ that I keep on dreaming to live

In Nature, its course to be untrimmed

The dance and songs of becoming friendly Death

Oh! In its shade I shall peacefully stay

For the eternity, with my sole belief

Your beauty won‘t fade away as “summers day”

*The first line of  W.Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18