Melodious Sunset From My Balcony
...Birds have started chirping
Sun is just about to set
Squirrel is squeaking as it scampers on branches of flame tree
Bees are buzzing
Crows can be heard saying caw, caw
Eagle flies with a scr...
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Categories:
pali, nature,
Form: Imagism
The Eyes of Wisdom
...In the time or
in and out of the space or
elsewhere I wandered,
I clasp myself alone,
but no perception of bliss of joy.
Many rebirths I conceded
Many samsara I roamed
I clasp myself alo...
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Categories:
pali, allegory, allusion, feelings, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: Never Political But Spiritual the Ancient Indo-Chinese Pilgrim Ties
...Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties
In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur Astronomer)
Associate Professor CHONG Siew Meng, Nationa...
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Categories:
pali, race, relationship, religion, spiritual,
Form: Villanelle
The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 1
...“The Swoon Hypothesis” - Part 1
“Come, take my hand”, you say, “I will show you a story”.
So, I place my hand in yours, we walk barefoot cool, in scorching sand.
Strange I t...
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Categories:
pali, imagery, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
The Enchanted Pali
...Let me pass under the tunnel of trees
While shrouded in mist in tropical breeze.
Let island mysteries slowly unfold
As customs remain from centuries old.
Let me rise up to the Pali so rare
As ...
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Categories:
pali, culture, history,
Form: Couplet
Exodus
...And if ever you don’t see
Exodus,
dig in the soil like a fruit
worm
and lift the stone of yourself
heavier,
to find a word
harder than Maya.*
And if you ever demand for more,
dig the sky. ...
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Categories:
pali, remember, , literature,
Form: Free verse
Hawaiian Christmas Cheers
...'Twas a week before Christmas, when at the Kalikimaka's house, I thought I heard a shout, it must be my boyfriend, quiet like a mouse.
The Christmas tree was dry and had no Tylenol to survive, he ...
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Categories:
pali, christmas, christmas, christmas,
Form: I do not know?
Listening To Joan Baez
...I sat with rum and Joan Baez the other day
Writing up three poems in Bombay
One short another crooked
Yet not quite a disaster
The other long and sad
Not very bad but still not much more
Than ...
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Categories:
pali, nostalgiavoice, voice,
Form: Free verse
I Remember
...I remember the time when I first took a good look in you eyes, you were handing me a
bouquet of flowers from work
The first time I held you in my arms the friendly hug right after, I get this girly...
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Categories:
pali, love, passion, me, night,
Form: Lyric