Nim Lee Poems

This is revelation.
The earth reveals its secret: it's not solid, eternal, dark, secure, our support;
The surface cracks a little, the veil is drawn aside, a truth is exposed.
Underneath is fire, power, force, destruction.
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Watermama, sing your song
Sing as long as you like and I will listen to you.
Watermama, sing your song,
Sing as loud as you like and I will listen to you.
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Aleacia in his plastic shelter
Sitting in the sun and rain
sitting through the night and daytime
By the Embankment drain.
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Hearing the distant growl of hurry
And the closer screams of excited children
Watching the busy pair of robins collecting food for their waiting young
And the brood of adolescent bluetits greedily pecking at the
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The ghost of my mother dances on the water.
The beat of the drum makes the water shimmer,
the frog croak,
Disturbing the peace of the night,
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I want to cry
I want to shout to yell to scream to howl
I want to fling my arms out to tear at my hair to beat my breast
to fall to the ground and kick my heels into mother earth
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It is not fair
that I am beautiful
that I am rich
that I am clever
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My mind is completely blank;
Empty: yet somewhere deep inside
A ghost stumbles throught the cold white corridors,
A dark grey ghost, silently weeping, transluscent tears dropping.
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The birds swirled in the sky, blackish against the pale grey.
They swooped and swirled, dancing with the gusting wind.
The sea swelled sullenly beneath them, gloomy and dour,
held down by the weight of its waters.
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Red flowers lie on the white cloth like a stain
A voice speaks quietly and clearly in the night
“Everything is going to be alright.”
That’s what they always say,
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