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kavi.vu �Saigon + Atlanta
poems and vietnam living
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05/28/2026

i — this was not the vision for my Idiom Challenge series but i’m here for all interpretations 🤣 left me quite literally speechless as u can see

@ me if you think you can beat this level of profoundness hahaahahha

lol

05/16/2026

how many did you get? 🤭

while i was editing this, i thought of how beautiful it is that chị knew so many, but said she hasn’t heard them in decades. i think it’s why i remain steadfast in my exploration of vietnamese idioms - i don’t want them to disappear forever in our minds and be replaced by brain rot 😩

chị thy was so good i almost ran out of idioms! pls send more if you have em heehee

05/14/2026

happy birthday bb !! we’re all sore but him 😒

we love this concept of an annual benchmark (shoutout to the mastermind Mike!) because on one hand this is the youngest i’ll ever be! and on the other hand it’s a great motivation to get stronger or faster or more flexible the next year and prove that age is just a number.

we still have a one mile sprint to add and maybe a couple more. any ideas for what to add and repeat next year?

05/04/2026

our fav channel in vietnam 🏀😬

celtics basketball season is over and we’re sad over here so i will share a moment that makes me giggle uncontrollably!

when thiện agreed to leave new york for 6 months and galavant around Vietnam with me, I wanted to do everything I could to make him feel at home in this experience.

when he found a channel streaming NBA games and we had the best time watching (albeit confused most of the time bc our limited vocab), and he started taking notes, I beamed with pride!!

this is the ultimate diaspora moment: living in Vietnam watching a Boston ball game announced in Vietnamese while you take notes in amusement and take in the fact that this is a brand new experience in your adult Vietnamese - American life, that’s so cool 🥹

and if anyone knows what this announcer said please help! we need to update our notes! heehee

05/03/2026

i did not write this poem, but it was written to me in the form of an instagram comment and it had my screen very blurry 🥺

I saved it in my notes immediately and found myself re-reading it to find courage to keep writing when my inner critic tells me i have nothing unique or profound to add (daily, ha.)

i pulled it up during april 30, which is a complicated day to be in the middle of within the vietnamese diaspora. it’s called Reunification Day in Vietnam, complete with parades, fireworks, and an unwavering display of national pride. In the US, it’s called Fall of Saigon, where there are candlelight vigils and everyone in my community wore black in memory of loved ones.

i’m not smart enough to comment on any of the many sides of war so i stick to writing poetry that brings me a little closer to my own roots, and maybe that’s enough. thank you, dear writer, for encouraging me with your words.

i’ll never forget this gesture

04/30/2026

vietnamese idiom about love, through poetry ❤️

Day 9 | a poem a day with the topic:
“____ But ____”
I went with “Blossoms, But Bites” to encapsulate the whole crazy idea of love and this vietnamese idiom “Thương Nhau Lắm, Cắn Nhau Đau”

i am new to this kind of love and it baffles and amazes me. I am growing in ways I thought would be done growing and fully formed by now, ha 😅

insights on love welcome and encouraged in the comments 💕

04/28/2026

Day 8 | Poem a day topic: Paranoid

DON’T JUDGE ME but like what even is this and please tell me this happens to someone else too?

04/27/2026

a poem about my move to vietnam
because Day 7’s Poem A Day topic: dusk or dawn

this came quickly because my mom’s question every time i call her from vietnam “what time is it there? is that sunset or sunrise?”

it’s easy to say i feel more connected to mom after moving to vietnam because im able to speak better vietnamese (which is true) but i think it’s much more complicated than that.

i think in many ways, she disliked most of it 🤣 but i like to think she was also proud in her own very silent? ways? hahahhaha

04/23/2026

vietnamese idioms through poetry 🌊

this poem a day challenge has been tough to keep up with (ah, the shooting and posting!) but i’ve written so many poems and i’m so proud! if i compare it to the 23 poems everyone else doing this challenge has written, then *s**t* i’m behind! but if i compare it to the 0 poems I would’ve written if I didn’t do this challenge, then I’m v proud of myself, heeheehe

thought this is the perfect idiom to remind myself (and you?) that the small steps matter most💧

04/22/2026

day 5 | poem a day challenge
topic: safety

the concept of safety is blurry because what is safety anymore and safety for whom

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