Best Kuan Poems

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...

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(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 spree;
Enact...

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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
About worry?
Two hands tied

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Haiku fragment
Poignant moment;
Mirror contrast

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Sorrow sketches
Water colours slide;
Echoes remain

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Time stops
Abruptly here;
Sadness abides

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Sometimes dying
Paints...

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"To the young and the not too old,
I say, follow that rainbow, go ride it."
          ...

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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...

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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...

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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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Gratitude speaks
Multi-racial tones;
Heat wave trials

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Gun carriage cortège
Last journey...

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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...

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(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 facts.


A man of vision...

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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;
Passing clouds wet

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Paperwork clutter
Desktop somewhat crowded;
Dazzling piles...

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(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 immortality.


This much we all...

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Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties

       In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur...

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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 grounds;
Glimpse beyond...

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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...

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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...

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