The event was organized by American Poet/Author Gregory Greg Bem and Daen Lia Kelly and others.
Three in English (Sunrise Over Angkor, Beautiful Resonant Breast-Beating at Angkor, The Donkey Sellers) and
Another Three in Khmer (គក់ទ្រូងប្រាសាទ, កវីហង្សយន្ត Jules Vernes ខ្មែរ, បេះដូងមេឃអស្ដង្គត)
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What a great event, Greg, to me and who were there,
Java Cafe is like a place to play our mind,
Nice to have been there seeing new faces,
Becoming friends, though their names not all known,
You, Carly Beth Nugent, Daen Lia Kelly, Bryan, Dana Langlois and others,
Java's owner whose name is to know,
She, from New Hampshire, speaks Khmer very well,
And a slim pretty woman with beautiful smile,
Looking Japanese but Australian she is,
And Clement from Paris of France
And his mate Manek of Indian ancestry from Paris,
Oh, and a man deeply plunged in his world of writing,
With his mate -- a computer -- working on something
He didn't seem interested in anybody and anything around,
Just wrote and wrote and nobody dared interrupting him.
My Khmer compatriots, young writers and aspiring poets,
One after another showed their mind through poems:
Phally Kim ថេង ឡេងហៃ, and the unknown names.
A woman with a krama scarf just sat smiling,
Her smiles like those on every face embellished the event,
Oh, what a regret, no other woman readers just Carly,
And another whose name I don't know, to have read theirs!
Only if other female figures had opened their smiling faces as readers,
Java Cafe would've been then Garden of Flowers like Eden,
And a Khmer cute woman fluent in English, on a motorbike,
Sitting on my right at the Java Cafe that memorable night,
Vanished into the dark outside with her smile, waving good night
And regret not to have known her name and everybody's
And a lot more and more to say ... leaving a real theatrical play.
