john tiong chunghoo Poems

Istanbul
cross cultural romances
dance in the people's eyes
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the land reverberates
with the loud squel of the
dinosaur
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departing
the footprints on
the sand of time
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the Queen's diamond jubilee
a bouquet of sunflowers -
the royal faces
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i choose the mountain
because it is there
it drums up my spirit
i choose the sea
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Arches National Park
frozen in their dance
the shapely rocks
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coconut leaves rustle,
running with the wind
at at least 20 km per hour
waves surge at an
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we were
brothers and sisters
even before we were born
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when my writing
greets your mind
like a waterfall
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is god proving a point
or giving himself away
to realm beyond realm?
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