The Former Tennent
...It abides in the lintel, leaving only
to hunt in the klong.
It was here when we moved in,
we are the renting guests
living under a large Monitor lizard.
Dawn coffee on the loggia,
the jungle...
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Categories:
klong, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Monk's Walk
...They walk in single file beside the river.
Five young men heads newly shaved,
their saffron robes washed so frequently
that orange has turned a saffron yellow,
a yellow seen in temple lamps at du...
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Categories:
klong, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ramsay Roe
...I am Flight Sgt Ramsay Roe, and my memories have faded,
Of my experiences in Burma, and their chronological order,
But into my memory’s deep recesses i have dug and waded,
Although the exact s...
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Categories:
klong, courage, hero, history, political,
Form: Quatrain