Long Hei Poems

Are you ready for a brand new year
The spring festival coming
So let’s all cheer
The lunar calendar starts again
It’s time to clean the cobwebs my friend




Gifts of red envelope’s everywhere
This is the Chinese New Year
The year...

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I
"Father" comes naturally
As eyes catch up with body
At this first dawn, we are reborn
Each day we awake. 'Might have gone
Where billions have, when they don't!

II
"LORD" with all the awe of an ancient Hebrew
I utter as...

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The Festival of Lights, Chanukah has arrived
a hopeful time of praise each year revived. 
The Menorah lit, each home becomes a church.
Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the universe.

Our sister Miriam lights the...

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Joy Breeds Hope

As my eyes look up to bright sunny skies
And I view soft shape shifting clouds float by
I feel hope instilled through my joyful eyes.
I take a deep breath, let out a long sigh.
Look...

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Dumplings 

As I walk into the kitchen, for a snack, 
my mother, her apron, night black hair, and jade bracelet, 
 makes me dumplings.
She combines the mixture of monotonous ingredients
into something extraordinary. 

The water, like...

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Chinese New Year 2022 *

Oh no! again they've cancelled the Lion Dance
And the Dragons are also put on hold
How I longed to see them gyrate and prance
But the covid virus is still uncontrolled.

The sound of...

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Explosão de 7 de outubro

7 de outubro:
Vi que de tudo, 
Especialmente 
Que: são as pessoas
que levam as coisas 
do princípio ao fim 
são aquelas que brilham.

Vi que 
Deus está NOS DETALHES:
VI QUE o segredo é
Atenção.
Por...

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To all of my friends on Poetry Soup,
you really are a dynamic poet troupe.
Though I’m not here every single day,
rest assured I’ll not stay away.

You’ve made me laugh and sometimes cry,
when your engaging works I...

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(Written with the help and great inspiration and original creativity of a good partner, 
colleague and friend ---- Alexandra Onofrei. Keep writing, kid! You’re blindingly good!)


Wings sewn from blood-red curtains,
Sultry needles from all that sweat,
Closed...

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