john tiong chunghoo Poems

sometimes you
get the promonition
someone close
will outlive you
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it pays to strip and to be read to
naked lines of old classics we can
turn and twist to fire up our fantasies
like the warm blanket on us, lines that
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the flowers lavished with scents,
softness and makeups of earth,
blossom in honour of the Creator
the freewheeling prayers they quietly
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i do not love entering a worship
place where the air rumbles with
tidals of favours devotees ask of God
desires crowd out the Almighty
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the human body
is a compass
to the Almighty
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so many entrances
fear takes me
round and round
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her mind is her husband and her heart, his wife
between them, she daily thinks about how
to to keep each other entertained
verses, rhymes her answers to her society's
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why does the light kiss the eyes?
it wishes to spread the best presents
over their lustrious oval tables
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Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
more poetic than words on doors
the rustle of bamboos
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