The Flowery Kingdom
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This is an ode about China. China is a flowery kingdom (line 1); it is the world's longest continuously used written language (line 3); all of china is in one time zone (lines 6 and 7); the forbidden city is said to have about 9,000 rooms (line 11); Hong Kong has more skyscrapers than anywhere else in the world (line 12); the stone forest is known for the Leshan Giant Buddha- A Gigantic stone statue with 5.5m long eyebrows (line 13); the terracotta army is a set of about 8,000 clay soldiers to guard Xi’an Emperor’s Tomb (line 14); has the worst brain drain in the world (line 20) and many more.
A kingdom with flower citizens
competing with the west with discoveries and inventions,
boasting of a time-stretching written language
and a non-stop dynamic civilization globally significant.
White is for sadness and red symbolizes happiness.
Even with its obese geography,
all of it is timed under one scale.
Its culturally molded body-defense arts
originates from ancient hunting and farming skills
Unique in its glamour and special in its glory;
from the awe of greatness of the forbidden city
to the great modernization and powerful skyline of Hong Kong.
Also the beautiful intimidation of the stone forest
and the amazing human grit exhibited in the terracotta army building
all stand tall in the flaunting of the globes bragging rights.
Popular is the amusement established in the combats of crickets.
Inhabits one of every two swine in the planet.
Creation of ghost metropolis as its exhibition of economic power.
American census can’t even beat the number of its English speakers
and yet, the pipe sucking out its mental potential
is known to be the largest in the whole world
Copyright © Funom Makama | Year Posted 2015
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