Siu Lun Tsui Poems

The course of life resembles the journey of a drop of water, it starts as a droplet at the glacier's front high up in the mother mountain
It drips, thrives and together with the other fellow droplets to form brooks, streams and rivers, while rushing down the slope and heading to the ocean
They acquire all kinds of everything, bit by bit along the long journey, through washing the river bank, shaping landscape and carving canyon
They irrigate barren lands, cultivate crops and nurture civilizations, but also flood villages, render creatures homeless and seize all their possessions
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Monsoon
The sun shine on this great land for months, barren fields are mercilessly roasted
Bottom of ponds are exposed, fertile land is baked into a big piece of cracked biscuit
Apart from desperately searching for a mouthful of water, creatures on earth has few other livelihood left
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Every second week in May, people will have an urge to visit the florist, and choose carnation...
Big kids who just leave the college often choose pink carnation, and wish their mother to stay young and pretty.
Young parents while busy in taking care of their babies would like to choose yellow carnation, to show their hearted gratefulness to the lady who took care of them, when they were still a baby.
People who have gone through vicissitudes of life, often pick up red carnation for their aging mother, and make a wish for her good health and longevity.
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The conductor waves his baton to conduct the music, just like a wizard drawing arcs with his wand to play the magic
This wakes up the elf of melody who is sleeping in the score sheet, while waiting for the next show of music
Musicians vibrate their strings, blow their pipes and percuss hard in a way of rhythmic
The spirit of the pipe, genie of the chord & the kobold inside the drum all are excited, they rush out and jump into the air to circle around the hall of music
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Meeting old friends

It's always a great please to meet old friends
Especially we know each other for decades but haven't seen for a while
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Do you notice that recently, this city's air is very fresh & the sky is very clear?
It's not because of the autumn, but thanks to the much reduced motor vehicle exhaust
Our citizens suddenly become environmentally conscious, though passively
This is a tremendous contribution in reducing global pollution, as the latter is directly proportional to economical activities
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Young ideologists play with their yellow umbrella at the main road, with fantasy to play the role of Messiah.
Ordinary people are forced to pay the unaffordable price, to which they need to give up their livelihood.
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In Admiralty the tents align, road by road
Line up alongside the slope, like a summer camp where the kids go

Holding umbrella in yellow, row by row
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Life is a drop of water in a river of no return, heading towards the ocean and never regret
It travels along the main stream, pushes the wave of fate up and down
It shapes landscape, crafts canyon and deposits sand for the delta form
It is blown up and gone with the wind, rains back to the mountain and...
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