Best Kuan Poems
Death of a Towering Personality
...Etched in history, 23rd March 2015 marks the death of an architect of a small country..
When he passed away, Lee Kuan Yew left behind Singapore a most vibrant country..
His was 7 days of mourning t......
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Categories:
kuan, appreciation, courage, education, goodbye,
Form:
Light Verse
Tembusu Tree
...(Dedication: In Memorium, for LKY)
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On this fine day, we remember:
Urge compels zest to plant this tree,
Race Saturday's April shower,
Touch knows a quest in ritual s......
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Categories:
kuan, blessing,
Form:
Sonnet
The Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K899 and K900
...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90, K899 and K900
[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought t......
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Categories:
kuan, political, power, tamil, ,
Form:
Epigram
Gracious
...Words come
Thoughts flow;
Meaning lives
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Choice avails
Poise styles;
Creative surge
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Glimpse truth
Urge patterns;
Cheer peoples
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Why worry
Ab......
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Categories:
kuan, appreciation,
Form:
Haiku
Villanelle: Never Political But Spiritual the Ancient Indo-Chinese Pilgrim Ties
...Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties
In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur Astronomer)
Associate Professor CHONG Siew Meng, Nationa......
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Categories:
kuan, race, relationship, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Villanelle
Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K895 and K897
...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90 K895 and K897
[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought to......
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Categories:
kuan, leadership, political, power, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Dreamer
..."To the young and the not too old,
I say, follow that rainbow, go ride it."
-- Lee Kuan Yew
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Reach and attain that dream you seek......
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Categories:
kuan, devotion,
Form:
Sonnet
Condolence Book
...Loss fills the air
As people queue;
Death can speak
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A common thread
Links us in gloom;
Mindful faces
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Dry humid March
National mourning;
Heavy hearts
~~~~~......
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Categories:
kuan, blessing,
Form:
Haiku
We Remember
...(Dedication: Memorial to LKY)
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"Death comes in time to each man,
Dear memory transcends span."
Glimpse of familiar face
Gone to eternity,
Fond memory we trace
Frames......
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Categories:
kuan, farewell, , memorial,
Form:
Quatrain
Disparate Matrimony
...Unity of two whilst same gender.
For love, for kinship, for the future.
Tied by the very hands of Destiny.
Of minute difference to the society.
Yet recognized as a monstrosity.
By those fueled b......
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Categories:
kuan, change, community, culture, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Our Common Legacy
...(In Memorium:
For Modern Singapore's
Founding Father,
Mr Lee Kuan Yew, RIP)
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See that body politic
In visionary brave tact;
See that action dynamic
In lovely outcome life......
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Categories:
kuan, appreciation,
Form:
Quatrain
February 29th
...This year leaps
Feisty moves hurl;
An extra day styles
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Old condo visit
Caretaker friend smiles;
Tea and chit-chat
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Monday dawn light
Cool breeze hints rain;
P......
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Categories:
kuan, blessing, , memorial,
Form:
Haiku
Dark Prose
...Life is a dark cloud,
hovering over humans witch starve cows,
these guard dogs bark loud,
like a scar'd child,
it's hard to smile,
when the worlds on the market,
and were living on her carcase,......
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Categories:
kuan, lifeworld, lost, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Sea.Rocks
...A nd so began the Great Repair as the Corners came together there, Four a meeting of Winds,
N ine to find is the task at hand. Owl flew to be as One with Great Mind over land to find
R hyme for the......
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Categories:
kuan, adventure, fantasy, imaginationsea, sea,
Form:
Goddess
...Stillness speaks charm
In sculptured grace;
Silence now farms
Bliss in kind face.
Silence now floods
A soothing balm;
Feel pulse of blood
Echo pure calm.
Such a firm poise
On lotus g......
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Categories:
kuan, beauty,
Form:
Quatrain