john tiong chunghoo Poems

a screaming child
as auntie lifts knife
to chop frog's head
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Serene Summer Palace
the only thing missing
dowager's voice
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'no no i have given
to each of them
seven senses. check
check check on them, '
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tell you what a good poem
should be like? it should greet us
like champagne that comes pop
and then vapour, bubble oozing all
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in some realms there is no pain
and no sufferings and no calamities
of any kind; you live as if you are peace itself
wealth is not money but the sacred lamp
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one or two excellent poems are enough
to get people to remember you by

the rest of them are for the scholarly
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there is the mirror
it holds three dimensions
but can show you only one
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I am so down and out I wish
some earthshaking news to
shake up my day for instance
George Bush and Saddam
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the St Francis Abbey's beer
punctuates our talk of
Kilkenny Castle and Jerpoint Abbey
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Phnom Penh Royal Palace
diamond studded buddhas
steal our hearts
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