Short Hong Poems

Hong Kong China crunch

clash of ideologies—

iron mixed with clay




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12/04/2019...

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A soldier of the Viet Cong
Decided to visit Hong Kong
He wanted to see
Xi strangle the free
Because compromise is SO wrong!...

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China claims that the Taiwan Strait
Does not divorce it from its mate
But China's been busted
It can not be trusted
Since it reneged on Hong Kong's fate!...

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A Viet Cong mum with a gong
Would dong it if daughters did wrong 
When the Army made camp
She would light up a lamp
to bong Hong Kong gong all night long!...

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The wedding dress was to long
Even the pastor tries to hurry it along
The pride took small steps
But still she side steps
Into fast time and ends up in Hong Kong...

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A gambler from Hong Kong named Louie.
He was dumb and quite a bit screwy.
In a gambling pad,
he lost all he had.
Today, he can’t afford chop suey.


Who says a limerick has to be Irish?...

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 We boarded a flight to Hong Kong 
Our pilot was called Sum Ting Wong
I’d a smile on my face
As his flying was ace -
His parents sure got his name wrong!

09 04 17...

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An old gent was tellin' me about how his dad wrote "a dry book" on a given topic, and argued the issue before the Supreme Court. Pretty important dad! And mine? "My dad rescued two hookers during a boxer riot in Kowloon."...

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When the coronavirus came
The news said there's no one to blame
It killed off my master
His dog a bit faster*
And that's how they both achieved fame.

*A dog in Hong Kong has tested
positive for the coronavirus...

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The BBC claims before long
The faeries will rescue Hong Kong
Like Bangladesh*
Faeries refresh
Plus Bojo says Trump can't be wrong!

28.VI.20 18:00 "Bangladesh is
heavily reliant upon faeries to
transport people ……"...

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On an Asian trip, noticed a sore on my gong
Doctor Smith said “amputation will be needed before too long”
So I saw Doctor Wong 
“It's the Hong Kong Dong
Wait 3 weeks it will fall off and you'll sing a happy song”...

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Hong Kongs
Big pong
Five are tried 
heads hooded
Hands tied

Wolf like packs
Claim a moral low
Truth can't bestow
The depth of facts
Now for all to know

Morals now obscene 
As today is seen,
Humanity traded
Weave of life torn
Insanity in-braided

A very aged norm.'...

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JANUARY WAS ANTARCTICA.....
                           OCTOBER A BEACH IN BALI......
                           ALMOST FORGOT HONG KONG AT EASTER.....
                           NEW YEARS DAY IN SYDNEY......
                           NOW WHERE TO NEXT MY LOVE.....
                           EMIGRATE TO ENGLAND?.........

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i'd go for one vision
another colleague said hammer to fall
another said show must go on 
fat bottomed girls
but that's enough yakety yak from me
welcome onboard flight 4b7 with service 
from hong kong to san francisco 
we are currently third in line for take-off and 
are expected to be in the air in approximately 
seven minutes time...

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I had a talk with a loved one.
You love Kool-Aid flavors of pink lemonade, cherry, lemonade, or grape.
He thinks you are ugly and referred to you as a prime mate ape.
Not wearing a wig. In stature you are big.
Never in your life have you lived in Hong.
You ex-father-in-law raised his shoulders in mock charade, comparing you to King 
Kong....

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Once in Hong Kong I sang a song
Chong and Wong pulled along
Choir it became strong
Lifelong those throngs now belong

Rithimus Divisa 4 Poetry Contest
of Gregory R Barden
6.8.2020

reference my poem: Mohan's Rhyme Schema at:
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/mohans_rhyme_schema_581037
(date: 6.7.2014, contest name: Rhyme Schema, sponsor: Verlena S Walker)...

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A world full of syllables
Is so highly tillable;
they ebulliently buoy,
never leading to ennui.

When you’ve got Hong Kong Phooey
with a bowl of chop suey
and a glass of Drambuie,
what else do you need?

Or a wolf man named Gershon
with a camo tutu on
and he’s traipsing ‘cross your lawn,
asking more is just greed.

—————

H/T to A Playboy’s Toys by Gershon Wolf...

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Listen to poem:

"Mountains of Love"
said the advert.
on a Monday afternoon,
and I suppose I should give mountains
to whoever plays my tune.

Trouble is
who is this guy,
and will mountains turn out wrong;
I'll reply to the ad. next Monday,
if I'm still in Hong Kong.

The wind it is fast blowing
over South China Sea,
and mountains of love sure tempt me,
whatever it may be.





7/8/2016...

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I wasn't long in Hong Kong,
before I saw my first tai chi,
and it gave me the strangest notion,
the exercisers, advancing all in a row,
were line dancing in slow motion.

They put their left hand in,
right hand out,
in, out, in, out,
waved them all about
and, set to soothing, soulful music,
the male practitioners suggestively sang,
"If you show me your yin,
I'll show you my yang."
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It all began in a laboratory in Wuhan;
Shan Chi sneezed next to Li Huan,
And they both gave it to Sue Han,
Who spread it all over Fenghuang.

Shie Ming went to Taiwan,
And she wasn't the only one,
Who talked to Sue Han
Who got it from a cousin from Wuhan.

And now Lien Mien Yong
Also went to Hong Kong,
It spread all along,
And it found Zhou Xong

He gave it to Kay Lee
Who stood next to me
In the mall in Juechii
Where I was eating Sushi....

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King Kong
back from Hong Kong
Left quite a thong
Never see a Hmong
Where is my King Kong?
Haha I am just kidding
Don't know where my King Kong is
But I do know that he will be here
Rescuing me 
From what?
From boredom
Oh my King Kong
Why didn't you honk?
I didn't know you were here
Looking through the throng
Oh my King Kong
Leave me a Dong
What? I am not in Sai Gon
Oh my King Kong
Whose song?
Sure not mine
Haha
What a King Kong!........

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Quick as Piranha


Tucked in a booth in back,
the last customer of the day 
cracks a fortune cookie,

sips Oolong as Mr. Hong
locks up. It’s time for his supper.  
Two tall sons bear

from the kitchen dishes
his wife won’t allow 
on the menu. 

Platters of meat
red, green, brown 
huddle and steam 

in the middle of the table.
When the Hongs
drop in their seats

chopsticks fly 
like beaks. So many bright teeth, 
quick as piranha.


Donal Mahoney...

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I'VE GOT NO POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME


Oh dear what can the matter be
There’s a mail strike and I’m into philately
I’ve had no letters from Monday to Saturday
The postmen are really unfair

They promised last week that they would deliver
Some stamps from Hong Kong and box of chopped liver
But nothing’s arrived, oh how my lips quiver
My mailbox is terribly bare

Inspired by contest

**** Total Fiction write ****

2/03/18...

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A Perilous flight

The flight from Hong Kong to Manila had more
passengers than seats
Give room to pregnant women, the stewardess shouted
I was in a deep sleep
In the aisle, people sat like rowers, bent heads as the plane took off
three-hour flight air in the cabin stuffy
when the heroic had given up their seat for any woman whether
she was pregnant or not, I opened my eyes 
they took chances, in the eighty’s money had changed hands
In Manila, I drank a cold beer....

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At an airport garden in Hong Kong
I sit and refresh my traveling spirit
amidst an effusion of lucky bamboo
Crepe white and fuchsia orchids
coyly fan their geisha faces

The Morning Sun, at first a pale opal ember
climbing over slumbering, stone-washed
mountains

Roars into brilliance
like a golden Peacock Dragon
strutting through China blue skies

I smile inwardly....
let the moment sweep me off my feet
Breathe in......
colors, sights, sounds
gifts....fullness...

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