Lingering Fumes
...An empty packet of Gauloises,
black coffee, a croque monsieur.
An aromatic café
breakfast in the Montmartre.
Later I switch to Camels,
a bumpy ride to seek out a friend
in the sixth arrondiss...
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Categories:
malacca, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Last 4 Years and the Coming Decade 5
...Because some troubles and faults left by last administration, the incumbent can try to restore or redress. But for some other questionable moves beyond recantation, the incumbent can only conduct lim...
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Categories:
malacca, america, international, introspection, political,
Form: Prose
The Mystery of the Ss Ourang Medan
...In 1947 in the Straits of Malacca near Indonesia
An old Dutch freighter the SS Ourang Medan
Sent a message out that the whole crew was dead
With the last message from the operator being, “I die”...
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Categories:
malacca, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Who Dares To Take This Life From Me,Knows No Better: Parts Three and Four
...III
This is the land of the convectional rains
Which vie on the monsoon back scrubbing streets
This is the land at half-past four
The rainbow rubs the chilli face of the afternoon
And an evening-mor...
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Categories:
malacca, political, rain, rain,
Form: Free verse
Getting Too Old
...GETTING TOO OLD
Her story told by old charts, scattered, water-drenched.
Portholes all broken, shaft and screw missing : a wreck ,
Grounded on concrete platform like an old man sittin...
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Categories:
malacca, adventure, life, nostalgia, old,
Form: Quatrain
Wrecks
...WRECKS
Battered funnel, broken hawsers, holes in deck,
Grounded on concrete platform like an old man sitting on bench,
Portholes all broken, shaft and screw missing : a wreck ,
Her sto...
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Categories:
malacca, adventure, nostalgia, peopleold, old,
Form: Quatrain