The Vietnamese language is tonal and melodious. Many Vietnamese people can write poetry effortlessly, for their mother tongue is inherently musical. The country has many great poets. Among the famous ones was Mr. Kim Tuấn (1938-2003), whose several poems were adapted into popular songs. 

This nostalgic poem, titled "My Childhood Time," is quite rich in nature imagery: soaring egrets in the eve, twilight on a golden fragrant rice field, moon shadow suspending above the bamboo grove at village's end, a singing cricket, a fluttering butterfly, a crowing rooster...