# Luang Prabang

By Peter Pink-Howitt, 1 January 2024.
Web page: https://compossible.blog/2024/01/01/luang-prabang/
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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To your people the Mekong means business

The Nam Kang is their playground.

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Your children have suffered much

from your beauty and your weakness.

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Their children will suffer for their beauty too.

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But their smiles

ngaam lai, ngaam lai lai

and their warmth

Khawp jai, lai lai.

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Luang Prabang:

A jewel on a pinhead

trying to balance.




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