john tiong chunghoo Poems

Shapely Sanibel
the shells refuse to leave
with the tide
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some people's life is a
procession of the funeral
no laughter, no play around
life is a serious undertaking
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bird's nest
pride is
back to roost
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it stands on multiple wooden poles
and right between them a flight of stairs
that goes up straight to the back or kitchen
so that when somebody walks down you see
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Lion City
our admiration tails
the greenery
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ripened cotton
this urge to grab them
harvest them all in one night
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in every city
of the world
there is a
jack the ripper
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Great Smoky Mountains
he says his passion for her
would smoulder all
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the bird they cage
to study its songs
becomes the cage
that strangles the bird
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water is like God
there is no taste no nothng
but you feel the whole
thing invigorating your system
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