fabulous fluorescent fiber optics light show
seldom seen anywhere except spectacular Singapore
greeting us, promising more marvelous sights to see
an intergalactic runway of awesomeness runs toward me
Singapore rocks!
Talking nonsense on a Friday night,
Holding court at the bar like a king.
Watching reality slip out of sight
As I sip on a Singapore sling ……
Singapore Summit, as high as the sky,
though, there hangs the Peace Prize pie,
dangling plumb, dangling awry,
drives the dolt's eyelids to flap, eyeballs to fly;
drags the dolt's drool till dry.
That's why the dolt recently seems spry,
as if each Nobel panelist became his guy.
Dog with two tails in, mouse with tail cut out, fie!
That pie still wags and wags on that sky,
for which the dolt has nothing to do but sigh and sigh.
Laughing at the dolt are DPRK's reactors, rampant, hectic, heaping high and high.
How fascinating and striking.
How deep and burrowing.
How inspiring and imaginative.
How insightful and thoughtful.
How constructive and moulding.
How explanatory and crytal clear.
How indulging and exploring.
How communicative and relating.
How unique and standard.
How verbal and interactive.
The intellectual developmental
approach for every being.
Beings who best integrate in the world.
How great the Singapore Math is.
Tropical rain pouring down
Giving us that pitter pat sound
Still warm and humid weather
God has put for us together
City growing reclaimed from the sea
Skyscrapers reaching to the sky you will see
Green gardens tendered well
Singapore a garden city nice to dwell.
© Paul Warren Poetry
Sitting in a marble hall
Watchin’ line dance one and all
Drinkin’ scotch and coke
Crazy time for an Aussie bloke
Making laughter ring
What good times they bring
Tropical 1 degree from the Equator line
Singapore slings will do just fine.
© Paul Warren Poetry
(In celebration of Singapore's
National Day 2017, August 9th)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Time has a way to tell a tale,
Each act moves play through storm and gale.
So year by year we come to know,
A country dear with grace that shows.
Just for a while let frolic play,
See happy smiles caress this day.
In bold fashion a dazzle grips,
Poise crafts vision in glitzy trip.
Let memoir tell as joy moves sight,
Here fond moves dwell in cheer's grand flight.
Feel flavours slot as tact greets reach,
A fragrant lot from each to each.
A special day to sparkle cheer,
A path now plays fine pact right here.
Here kin and friends share fond dreams,
Reach with grand plans as purpose streams.
Home is a place where heart finds ease,
Let health fill space with lovely peace.
Leon Enriquez
09 August 2017
Singapore
A
Cat loving ladies
A ministry of cat care
To hungry felines.
B
Each day. Unfailing
Feeding your chosen creatures
Making us feel good.
C
I see and I ask
Why are these animals here?
Someone must love them.
D
Tabby. Persian. Black.
Each and every day they’re back
And their carers smile.
E
I try patting her.
Snarling she runs off frightened.
I’m not her lady.
Once upon a rhyme
Influence set the chimes
Attend to reasons
Beyond mere season
Intent brought firm acts
Craft of steady tact
Days and months and years
Work outlived most fears
Here upon these shores
New rites now pile more
Laugh with bold struggle
Rumble and tumble
Odd one out of place
Mad mad rush we race
Influence flavours change
Fit the dance most strange
Glimpse the city streets
Sync with change that greets
Once upon a chance
Sojourn wrought sweet dance
Pragmatic swift swirls
Cash confronts new world
Check the passage here
Dream come true fits sphere
Watch change alter range
Live odd embrace strange
Leon Enriquez
03 February 2016
Singapore
My Hazed Singapore!
My once gleaming and buzzing city
Now forlorn and glum
Relentless blaze and we keep mum
Hazy, crazy, why can’t I see
The silent intruder reminds me
How fragile life and existence can be
Gone the sunshine that sparrows once chirped
The smiles of flowers and trees usurped
Young and old huddling in on tasks
Strong and robust scurrying off in masks
Can we not check their insidious greed?
Let the long arms of the law act indeed!
Start with fond feel to find your way,
Indulge your heart that knows the truth;
Note what you will the time of day,
Glimpse love's sure art with mystic proof;
Abide with grace the touch that heals,
Peace floods and fills the ample spheres;
Observe the space where time retreats,
Reach and distill true faith that cheers;
Exult in light that forms all things.
Touch deep stirrings that come to you,
Outline fine sights that ever spring;
Dance sure living as beauty cues,
Align and see your journey quest,
Yield what must be zest that works best.
Leon Enriquez
26 July 2015
Singapore
Start with firm heart where mind sees truth,
Intent sets free the best you can;
Note how to start to work sure proof,
Grow then wisely with working plans;
Align true health with steadfast poise,
Plant and sow well the seeds that grow;
Opt to earn wealth with steady choice,
Reap more that sells what finesse shows;
Express the means to gather more.
Focus on thoughts that cause clear acts,
Indulge true wins that fill your stores;
Feel play and plot that frame bold tact,
Thrill vivid dream with success here,
Yield lavish schemes that spark fond cheer.
Leon Enriquez
04 July 2015
Singapore
See sights and sounds, see charm and soul;
Indulge bold plans, indulge clear space;
Note poise that grounds, note voice set whole;
Glimpse precious trends, glimpse gracious trace;
Align true heart, align bold mind;
Prime happy fare, prime cheery face;
Opt just to start, opt just to find;
Reach for brave dare, reach for fine grace;
Explore the world, explore the truth.
Trust in good sense, trust in your way;
Observe the swirl, observe the proof;
Do live clear tense, do earn fond play;
Ask that you know, ask that you see;
Yield style that shows, yield means to be.
Leon Enriquez
08 January 2015
Singapore
So swiftly now, so much of change;
Time yields endow, time feels so strange.
So quickly here, so change feels strange;
The times brought cheer, the feel of change.
It seems a flash, a brilliant blur;
The spiral dash, an affluent spur.
The new shapes bare the facelift here;
A bright fringe wears a surreal cheer.
First the world view, then the climax;
Watch plays on cue, let style attract.
Let charm and grace show off finesse;
Cash funds this place with stylish bash.
Two fruity domes speak of culture;
Cues can find home in proud gestures.
This Esplanade like durian thorns
Wears a facade to greet new haunts.
Once upon then, the sea felt near;
Now we know when aplomb can steer.
Age catches up to one and all;
An empty cup fills sad recall.
Days and nights here are like elsewhere;
Live for good cheer, live here or there.
So much of change can feel crazy;
Accept the strange, work out easy.
So much of thought can dye meaning;
Our ample lots drive our shoutings.
So here we meet at life's crossroads;
We laugh and greet despite harsh loads.
Leon Enriquez
08 December 2014
Singapore
You become Raffles and its Long Bar.
Better, I'd imagine, than it needs,
or probably deserves.
Happy, fair,
tanned loveliness with a dash of sauce
and a hint, I think, of innocence.
Had I noticed that before?
Melbourne today is cold and squally.
Now where I look is stained with sallow sunshine
then buffeted by gloom thicked winds
then still.
Then lashed by rain then still again.
And all about are sodden drifts of autumn.
I wish you were here.
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