Take Out Tonight Poem by Andy Brookes
Take Out Tonight
Cantonese embroidery
red Phoenix flies on silk
rises from the ashes blood red.
dead cocoons peeled
fat mulberry fed caterpillars giving
up their lives, boiled, on Chop Suey nights
an invention for the west
full of eastern promise.
yellow beans n rice
we ate all the dumplings
stole the pearls,
killed the king.
so we order no.2, no.31 and fried egg rolls
china invented everything, trumping us,
as we built Stonehenge
they built a wall long before,
well you know what I refer to.
sombre paddy fields
the wheel turns
and the dragon flies,
over the Forbidden City.
we eat, unauthentic food
by candle light and paper lanterns,
eating sophistry with chop sticks.
1 - I'm enjoying this. in stanza 3: china with " C" ? . And i laughed at this: " well you know what I refer to." You could mean Hadrian's Wall (" in your neck of the woods" ;) Or Trump's Wall in mine. With a van-tour we visited Stonehenge; i was disappointed as we could not walk up to it.
sombre paddy fields the wheel turns and the dragon flies, over the Forbidden City. we eat, unauthentic food by candle light and paper lanterns, eating sophistry with chop sticks......so touching and impressive. Beautiful poem having nice penmanship is amazingly shared. Thanks for sharing.
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I would like to translate this poem
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2 – We DID stop at a small village before that where there were erected huge rocks we could walk among. we also hiked up a country lane to a very secluded, rustic, very OLD burial 'cave-crypt' we could walk into. Forbidden City - Beijing? i don't find a definition i like for your use of " sophistry" bri :)