john tiong chunghoo Poems

listen, listen to the roaring thunder

listen to its every nuance
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enchanting
first smile between
teenage lovers
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realists look for the heart
and soul in their objects
to cloth them with colours
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ET dance
heron tipped beaks
towards sky
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digging at the same spot
first to lay pipes
then to lay wires
leaving mud, gravel
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swift river
so is time
listen to the river
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the cock crows
because the sun
has his heart all
fired up with the
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to the eyes, the earth
was once flat until
space proves to us
that it's round and
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the smile, the laughter
the billowing cloud
and the tears
and their echoes
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the conceited wrote only
one or two decent or
even great poems
and branded themselves
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