Taipei summer bright
Enhancing the city's night
Flashing firefly light.
Categories:
taipei, city, light, night, seasons,
Form: Haiku
*Image of Pelosi Leaves Taipei by BBC.
Terra Incognita
Diurnal moments margin in my head,
As metamorphosis pirouettes hands,
Nightmarish recall exit none be said,
An armistice mosey in of spilt sands.
Logjam beliefs wane gains, prosperity,
Erring hand fingered an island nation,
Right foresees windfall, voters clarity,
Left wins Red China, lost the election.
Past oversights also recent letdowns,
Amiss twentieth, twenty-first embed,
Ruse an angle nefarious look rounds,
Dame be a torpedo full speed ahead!
It is a jigsaw board, a puzzling face,
An instance period to bygone years,
A world in awe as one alters a pace,
A nation benign oddity brew peers.
2022 August 25
*2nd Place*
This or That, Vol 13
~~Edward Ibeh: Judged 2022 September 04
Terra Incognita
Categories:
taipei, betrayal, bullying, history, power,
Form: Quatrain
At Gateway yin
Long sham temple
Pink laced Taipei doll
Sealed Carmine red lips
Chiseled etched
Fine porcelain
From the four
Corners horn
Erected during
monsoon
Dragon tail rains
Swept gale winds
Funnel golden sand
Through pearly whites
That smile no more
Slighting the whitest Pearl
Ever Beautiful
Lifeless love soul
Dress eroded salty seas
Passages are lingering..
Echoes
Categories:
taipei, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Ode
Welcome to the year 4712, the year of the horse.
This is the most important time for Atlantic City hotels, of course.
It is tradition for good luck to eat noodles on the first day.
Make sure we have plenty of them in inventory today.
Have those fireworks to frighten the evil spirits away.
Have loads of red envelopes with money at the noodle bar.
Our honored guests will have traveled very far.
Get the tables ready for baccarat, pai gow, and sic bo.
Our patrons will be wagering loads of money in the casino
Whether they come from Hong Kong, Beijing, or Taipei,
cater to all their wishes during their stay.
Categories:
taipei, holiday, new year,
Form: Rhyme
come 2016
or 2015
or 2017
whenever china’s economy exceeds that of the united states
(the year disputed circa. 2016)
and there is no longer any dispute over
who will be calling the shots in the world
from there on out
one has to wonder---
having spent any time in america---
or more importantly/specifically
new orleans &
detroit city &
dallas &
pittsburg &
nyc &
kansas city &
atlanta &
chicago &
la---
will there be chinese james brown?
a new “hardest working man in show business”
whose tunes fill the ears of those new most important cities---
be it
hong kong off the mainland, or
shanghai, beijing, cheng du, hang zhou, qingdao,
xi’an,
taipei, dali, ningbo or
quangzhou---
will there be a new man who bearing the purest chinese soul,
pumping it out in
mandarin or cantonese?
will he be pop-locking as the most perfect popper
dancing the night away
please audience from one side of the globe to another
broadcasted in better-than-broadband (whatever comes next)---
from iphone to ipads to the next
most virtual replacement---
no doubt we will all be dancing with him
singing the new anthems of our age---
“?????!”
Categories:
taipei, lifecity,
Form: Free verse