Under the Stone

By Hongvan Nguyen

It plays with external forms of Poetry since poems are usually divided into stanzas with certain groups of lines. It also concentrates on rhymes, different types of rhyme schemes. Other techniques such as figures of speech like metaphor and simile are also used in the poems of this book. For the voice of the poems, readers will find it is not al

• Language: English
• Publisher: Go To Publish
• Release date: Aug 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9781647495152

Hongvan Nguyen

Born in Saigon City, the Capital of Republic of South Vietnam before 1975; however, it was defeated and occupied by the North Vietnam's communists in 1975 when the author was a ninth-grade student in public school. Having lived several years under the poor economic conditions and under the restricted ruling of the communist regime, she tried to get out of Vietnam, and finally in 1981, she was admitted into the United Stated through the humanitarian assistance of the United Nations' political program ODP for family reunions and for refugee settlings. In 1985, Hongvan graduated from a two-year college with an AA degree in computer studies, and in 2006, a BA degree in English Literature major and a philosophy minor. Before publishing her own books, her poems were seen in the anthologies published by Noble House, International library of Poetry, Poetryfest Press and Famous Poets. Hongvan also has published another poetry book, Crossing Places, under her pseudonym Ernestine Cowalton.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank all the editors, and other staffing members who contributed their efforts in assisting me to publish my poems. I also want to thank my English teachers: Professor Yvonne Surette, Professor Jennifer Atkinson and Christie Kramer at George Mason University who gave me their comments and helped me edit some of my poems. And additionally, I also would like to thank the following organizations for their supports with the publications of the below listed poems: The International Library of Poetry, the Famous Poets Society, and the Noble House.

I/The following poems were previously published by the International

Poetry Society:

1) Falling Leaves of Autumn in : Grasp of Eternal.

2) December Stanza in: Love and Laughter.

3) Once Upon My High School Time in: The Best Poems and Poets of 2002.

4) Still There Are Verses in The Best Poems and Poets of 2003.

5) Do You, Shall I Compare Thee to a Winter Day, Seclusion, "Spring Has

6) Come Back, The Day of Terror, Baghdad in a Flare" are published in

7) the Eternal Portrait Series of anthologies.

8) Sonnet to a Wintry Evening and The Flights of the Mind in the Who

9) Is Who in Poetry series.

II/ The Nights of Loving Dreams, Lullaby for a Sleeping Child, and One-Year Older were published by Noble House in their anthologies entitled: Labour of Love, and Songs of Honor, Centres of Expression.

III/ Where You Live was published in Famous Poets of the Heartland by the Famous Poets Society.

Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance

Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure.

A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,

And turn delight into a sacrifice.

George Herbert

FOREWORD

This book aims at the traditional forms of poetry. Some poems have the form of a sonnet, a villanelle, a pantoum, a haiku, or a sestina; others are written in the form of an ode, or a quatrain, and the rest are free verses or narrative poems. For the topics of the poems, some are based on facts, others are just imaginations. There are many different purposes when one gets involved in the creation of his or her art. To me, I like to write for the humanity effect as well as for the sake of the art itself; that is why the concentration of this book is the forms of poetry. I believe that the reasons why poetry is different from prose are because of its special features such as rhymes, rhythm, meter and forms. When I was a young kid in public schools, I