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Penang Poems - Poems about Penang

Tennis with Jai Liu

...Flying foxes hang replete from the tall trees
dripping in the morning sun. They have sucked
the flesh of mamey sapote, rambutan and mangosteens.
Their dog-like pelts are copper pendants
that seep...
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Categories: penang, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Penang

...There was a beach in Penang once,
it is there now, but for us,
only in this moment and no other.

You and I walk along a golden ray of sunset.
I think the small boarding house
has gone somewher...
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Categories: penang, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Tennis With Jai Liu

...Flying foxes hang replete from the tall trees
dripping in the morning sun.
They have sucked the flesh
of mamey sapote,
of rambutan and mangosteens.
Their dog-like pelts are copper pendants
that...
...
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Categories: penang, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Globetrotting Couple

...On the Penang Island, they collect divine charms 
                                           that the locals see not.

While canoeing in Zambia, they fathom the depth 
of harmony in the river whe...
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Categories: penang, inspirational, travel,
Form: Free verse

A World Shattered

...A World Shattered


http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2017/11/15/penang-to-pay-funeral-expenses-of-mca-mans-family-members/   

Here in Bolehland, this has to be the saddest news ...
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Categories: penang, anxiety, betrayal, community, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFirst Travel Insurance

...First trip was at Kuala Lumpur
Flight was always delayed due to a strong down pour

Second trip was at Langkawi
So giddy when our ferry boat sails on the sea

Third trip was at Penang
Thought ...
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Categories: penang, travel,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberMalaysia

...Mosques embellish the land in grandeur
Arts of its city including its Petronas Twin Tower at Kuala Lumpur
Langkawi flaps its wings beckoning its great wonder
Atop of mountains viewed the paradise ...
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Categories: penang, travel,
Form: Acrostic

Calender But Not Dated

...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, ...
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Categories: penang, analogy, august, best friend,
Form: Free verse

Shoplift To a Job

...ShopLift To A Job

From a bustling town called Bukit Mertajam, a mainland part of Penang Island,
Outbreaks a story that warms the heart, about a man being given a helping hand.

With a headline ...
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Categories: penang, community, encouraging, forgiveness, happy,
Form: Free verse

Caterpillars Many Feet Many Boots

...The suitable ramblings of a plate of acorn and carrots to a listening ear of a squirrel squire is very very good news for a bed of voltaic leaves.Vehemently described by a small stone to be akin to r...
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Categories: penang, america, animal, april, art,
Form: I do not know?

Penang Revisited

...Forty two years and I've finally returned
back on the shores of the place I've long yearned.
So what pains of time have corrupted my dream,
where are the things that my memory has seen.

A mixtu...
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Categories: penang, moving on, nostalgia, paradise,
Form: Rhyme

Trip of a Lifetime

...We flew through the air on a refurbished plane,
the shakes and the rattles sure gave us some pain.
But we were the ones who fortune had named
to spend years Far East with our dad’s army game.

T...
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Categories: penang, adventure, flying, military, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Comatose To Life

...Comatose To Life

Somewhere on a small island called Penang, historically known as the Pearl Of The Orient…
There is a heartwarming tale of how tender loving care revived a comatose patient…

Th...
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Categories: penang, devotion, giving, inspiration, meaningful,
Form: Narrative

Legacy of Penang

...Back in 1962 when I was just a lad
my dad gave me a holiday
the best I ever had.
A holiday of every dream
that one lifetime could hold
so listen while this wondrous time 
to you I now unfol...
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Categories: penang, culture, father, food, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

Soul Searching

...I meandered through the muddy Mekong
Searched in sultry sexy Saigon
Ravished in the Cat Thien Rain forest
Yet I still could not find you

I found myself haunted in Hong Kong
Caught up in the ca...
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Categories: penang, places, poems, poetry, travel,
Form: Light Verse

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