Keith D Trestrail Poet Sonnet

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A rugby trip to Hong Kong in 2008.

 

Once Upon a Time In Hong Kong

Away the land of the flame tree blossoms
  Orient blown athwart a yellow moon,
to hearken the far sound of dragon drums
  and ride a Phantom into old Kowloon.
To Salisbury Road Peninsula doors
  where old enemies its waters journey,
where long ago in the Opium Wars
  Britannia ruled the South China Sea.
Now a new tale of skirmish is retold
  when two foes battled on a foreign field -
O’ but fell the armies in green and gold
  whose fate was All Black and forever sealed.
And to the victors do the spoils belong
once more once upon a time in Hong Kong.


          Written: November 2008

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