Short Kuala Poems

PNEUMATIC EMPHATIC

There’s a lady in Kuala Lumpur
Likes to wear a tight fitting jumper
And to make the men smile 
She’ll inflate her profile 
With the aid of a bicycle pumper...

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For Ananga

        On that day when all is dark

When I wake on that blackened day
Though I wake to find no day
I will burn a flower on my tiny finger
And cipher the heart of the yelp

 © T. Wignesan - Paris, 1957 (from Tracks of a Tramp. Kuala Lumpur-Singapore: 1961; first pub. in "Forum Academicum", University of Heidelberg, 1957)...

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Another walking forward again
Where somehow more gain
I don’t know where to go from here
But most important Kuala Lumpur as a guide point 
Just passed by Temasek, at Johor Baharu live in Tasek
No other words that I can express our gratitude
Than with love and affection that we could
In Shaa Allah still meet in the future that we should
I love you peace and I would.
More steps to walk the world!...

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