Talent has never just one face
Your self-discipline is needed
Your self-improvement also show
That you're also blessed by heaven
But you haven't noticed that
One Malaysian leader confess
I rather choose good character
Who will work for my country
Than has outstanding diploma
Who gallivanting in workplace
I stand in awe after knowing this.
nameless hero’s sleep
carrying allegiance
to eternal graves
a debt we owe
to preserve their strife
lest they died in vain
note: this is a "Cherita", a Malaysian poetry form created by Ai Li in 1997
Millie’s mother Mabel mended macrame
Mainly Marseilles-made macrame,
Maddening moments mending machine macrame
Mostly made-to-order, mostly May macrame.
Making May mostly made-to-order macrame means
Many months modifying Malaysian macrame, mostly!
written February 2, 2022
What is Jawi?
What is Rumi?
What is Sufi?
Who is Hamzah Fansuri?
We know Marco,
We know Atlas,
We know Amerigo,
But who is Al-Attas?
Sudah hilangkah jati diri?
Ibarat Laki tinggalkan Bini!
Lupakah hati bahasa sendiri?
Adat di jiwa bak karatnya kersani!
It's after the 'landslide?' Thieves stole the election!
This traitorous scum bag's a Russian invention,
But 'Charmin' (1) for Putin (that's on a good day!)
For the dark side of Trump's just black art on display!
Who’s sure what this Russian prick knows that we don't know?
His strength, the weak worship, on knees (that's 'for damn sho!'),
So sad (though it’s clear), the worst blackguards have pride,
But Trump prostitutes children! He's vacuum inside!
There'll never be 'wall,' Trump's 'top picks' terms in prison,
Their blood fouls saint's thoughts when 'land crocodile' (2) eats them
(Reality TV's so juicy!) Although
The best part of Trump's boners, the rainbows clouds grow!
Rich folk's lives reveal to the world that they're vassals,
Suggest to some peons' life's harder in castles,
Rich thinking perhaps they meow like a cat,
But when reckoning comes: will they squeak like a rat?
Long Tooth
August 16, 2018
Poet’s Notes:
(1) For those in the know ‘Charmin’ is what ‘privileged’ folks use to wipe
their tush!
(2) In the Malaysian language, a “Land Crocodile” is the phrase used to
describe a man who molests women, i.e., a playboy! What fun!
The Devil Knows
Revenge is sweet and best served against Russians. Or so ISIS/Daesh thinks. They claim to have blown up a Russian airliner with a bomb. Over two hundred dead. An American satellite saw the flash from space. There was no missile launch unlike the Neo Soviet terrorists shooting down the Malaysian airliner.
What will Putin The Dog do? Hide in his Kremlin kennel and run round in circles? Pawing at his head, paranoid delusions. His slaves are in a new war, forget Ukraine. Syria is getting bombed. Lots of civilians being martyred. The Dog says he's bombing Daesh.
He lies. It's mainly the American backed opposition and some real terrorist groups getting hit. But did some bombs hit ISIS? Their alleged airline attack proves they're not happy. Something had to give, opposite reaction. What will the Neo Soviets do now? Ground invasion, eighties Afghan style? The Devil knows in advance...
Voracious Animals
Animals in nature are categorized by their feeding habits...
For the ferocious meat eaters, they are by nature carnivorous...
Their hapless preys, they are torn to pieces, gnawed and chewed....
There there are the plants feeders, the herbivores, munching and grazing in peace....
Caught between these two is the human species, meat and plants eating....
Mercilessly effective, humans devour meat and plants endlessly....
The human species, we are omnivorous in our feeding patterns....
But going viral, there is yet a 4th grouping in the human animal..
Umnovorous, a new breed of high powered and high flying human individuals...
Feeding brazenly on all kinds of money, perpetually thieving from the people...
Question remains, how do such gregarious animals feed...
Do they chew, gnaw or do they swallow complete...
All those ill gotten Malaysian Ringgit, heavens forbid?
We dropped anchor that morn in Bacuit Bay.
I wanted to make El Nido our stay,
Philippine paradise where white sand beach
and many near out coral reefs do lay.
Matinloc Island crevice hard to reach
underwater door I wanted to breach
leading to “pristine place of paradise.”
Often I’ve heard it said sight’s beyond speech.
Until then, they say Swiftlet’s Inn is nice
On Balinsasayaw Road, very good price.
I don’t want to sleep on the yacht this night
but enjoy a San Mig Light cold as ice.
Jean, my new won bride, will think it’s alright,
She’ll like Puerto’s Underground River sight.
Bolehland has the dubious honor of losing a full bodied jet liner...
Undoubtedly touted as one of the greatest mystery in modern air travel....
A full passenger jet plane that went missing into thin air...
A disappearance thatust surpasses those in the dreaded Bermuda Triangle...
Despite spending millions in a long and exhaustive search...
Nothing of interest came up after such a lengthy search...
Now a couple of years later, debris are being washed up...
Supposedly over there on the sands of distant Madagascar...
With ever waning interest and after numerous false alarms...
Could these debris being genuine materials from that ill fated jet liner...
Could they help pinpoint the exact location of the watery grave of MH370....
But here it comes, the latest clanger...
The Malaysian consul to handle the return of MH370 debris...
Found assassinated before the debris were handed over...
Could it be mere coincidence or could it be something bigger...
Unexplained deaths stalks the mystery of the missing Msian jetliner...
What devilry or mischief lies behind the mysterious disappearance of MH370....
Hohoho...
My Grandmother’s Kaleidoscope
The stones and the planks of her heart
resonate with the pick-axes and the
hammers. My grandma’s mansion
loses its head, arms and trunk.
His hidden life in the Malaysian
woods during an old war, usual
silence of the empty nights near
her granary, which was always
filled to the brim, night wind
rattling the lone window of her
top scary story, her maid’s
calumnies tickling the eardrums,
haunting forebodings, ecstasy of
the reunion… I see all in her
yellow kaleidoscope.
Broken stones and planks are
heaped up before her wrinkled
emotions. She watches all in
silence from the kind veranda
of her son-in-law. The present
is only a ghost of the past.
First published in my book, 'Kanoli Kaleidoscope' by PunksWritePoemsPress, US.
Lush
virgin
hair she buys;
she likes all things
plush!
Written April 8, 2017 for the L Form - Lanterne poetry contest of Broken Wings
Theme 3: Lush
Note: I researched hair extensions and found out Malaysian is the best!
I’m here in the mossy pool,
yet you never feel my presence.
I’m a clumsy wingless child.
O girl, you wear Malaysian
frocks, but I’m always naked.
You take Chinese noodles,
while I feed on insipid insects.
I cannot travel beyond the
borders of the pool. My parents
are alive away. An orphan I’m.
Time gives me wings as verse.
O lady, I know you enjoy my
red beauty, though through the
key-hole of a wedlock. I seem
not to see you watching me.
My wings give me a sense of
freedom. Now I owe all my
charms to my wings and hue.
FIFA Puska's Award Winner Is Faiz Who
G morning......
A wonder goal that defies physics and bedazzles the football world....
And send into obscurity all other wondrous goals from all over the world...
Step aside, Cristiano Renaldo and Lionel Messi...
The spotlight now is solely on an obscure Malaysian, Faiz Subri...
Faiz who, you may want to ask, and to scratch hard that head of yours...
Somebody please, please post here that video clip of Faiz's wonder kick...
That has propelled this Bolehland country and her Premier League...
Into world soccer limelight with 2.6m viewers and counting, my friends....
This easily eclipses the 1m plus viewers each of the next two candidates in line...
And the award comes with a hefty amount of US100k as the coveted prize....
But I might have been mistaken about that figure, pardon me...
Please correct me if I am wrong there, but it is a gospel truth to be...
Now that the balloting is over, all hail Faiz Subri, 2017 FIFA Puska's Football Award winner of the year...
It is a worldwide recognition of the most spectacular wonder kick for the year...
Let the truth prevail, Malaysia Boleh!
Calender But Undated
Haha... In Australia, calender means fixed dates...
In Bolehland, it can mean to fix at a later date...
In case you are wondering what that was about...
Wonder no more, in a calender actual dates abound...
Funny how one can call it a calender and yet differs so much...
Penang Open is in the calender, but nobody knows much...
Shssh! Nobody knows actually when, it being an official secret...
Here in Bolehland, a calender is a program planned with no dates at all...
Hohoho...a Malaysian squash calender is available for print...
But what's this? Important dates are not yet chosen for print...
Hahaha in Bolehland, there are missing gaps with dates unseen..
Unlike in Australia, all dates are identified and well planned ...
So of what use is a calender in Bolehland, dates are left undone...
In Australia, one can plan and travel on account all dates are done...
?????? A little note...
......when a annual calender of events have only the event
but not the dates, how does one dare call it a calender of events for the year???
First you hear the high pitched ear piercing sirens...
Then a couple of traffic police on high powered motorcycles...
Majestically clearing the heavy traffic with a wave of gloved hands...
Now if it was a medical emergency, you'll rightly understand...
An ambulance coming through, a human life is at stake..
All this you can surely understand, heck! You'll get down and help if you can...
But what is this blaring nonsense, just another 2 bit Napolean full of self importance...
If he's is in such a mighty hurry, why can't he just leave a bit early...
If the average Malaysian can always make it in time despite the many traffic jams...
Just have all those bloody self important politicians join in the jams...
We'll then see if what's good for the goose is good for the gander...
Those bloody politicians, pushing their bulk and weight around...
Don't they realise we the rakyat voted them in, not to bloat their importance...
But to better serve us, the long suffering rakyat, and help forge a better Malaysia...
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