Taiwan Poems

The Mia Man was mad. Someone had stolen his pet dog. This was an automatic credit. He would get even. No matter the time line. The stolen dog was handsome and intelligent. His name was Peter. 
Word went out a...Read More

Eating Shrimps
I eat choc sponge cake.                                  ...Read More

In the beginning it was just a smell 
a smell i could not quite make sense of
a smell that the city was, a smell that the people in it were

in the beginning it was just a smell
a smell that dragged...Read More

Air-ball, foul, listen to the referee 
No free throw from the key 
Sit in this corner for time out
Check by your names and throw a pout

Hopscotch, Tik Tok
Social media around the clock
For freedom of press
For freedom to express
but there is...Read More

Thanksgiving to God* for mission trip to 
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Self Defence

In your modern nation
Your civilisation
Is under a threat from miniaturisation 
Cos one day they’ll make it, in China they’ll fake it
A nice compact nuclear bomb...

That Clips on a rocket
That fits in your pocket
And no one cares where it comes...Read More

Clouds on my shoes, a song in my throat, but stuck on a big giant lump.
Too big to ignore.
I concentrate on my cloud shoes.
Decorated beautifully in Taiwan by people I will never meet.
With crayons and the words ‘school counselor’ on...Read More

A LOUSY HOTEL

Son went to his hotel room after a delicious lunch
When he opened the door there was a loud crunch
There were huge cockroaches crawling over the floor
He grabbed his bags and ran straight out of the door

This cockroach infestation...Read More

Name your next ten children Trump
May all your twins be Donald's
I wish you a Merry Christmas too
With Happy Birthday visions of him
With surfer dude hair very wavy and thin
Almost life like and pretty pink
And may all your New Years be...Read More

Tell them i was here
I carried them in my sack for nine months.
Tell them the ugly pains I encroached.
The fire that was in my chest.
The belly aches, the back pain, heartburn and headaches.
Tell them i endured the dull ending pain...Read More

on the other side of a twenty-seven mile wide mountain range
is a place to go where no cars and cycles buzz behind me
where the dusk heated sun does not touch my back
and polluted air does not burn my eyes
where ...Read More

Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant sun’s rays
The honey less flowers kiss the dying bees’ goodbye
Never Enough

Blinded are the eyes to...Read More

Originating from a tropical country
My family and I decided to go to Taiwan
We were on an airbus, big and long
Sitting with each other and playing
We set off heading to the east
My, was it a long journey of 4 hours.

Yes, touch...Read More

Napoleon’s men marched on Moscow
And promptly perished.
So did Hitler’s men!
Once the US wanted to ‘save’ Vietnam, 
Made life miserable— 
For both Americans and the Vietnamese.
Then, Iraq grew restless 
And wanted Kuwait back.
For China,
It was Tibet then, Taiwan now,
Anything else tomorrow,
Without...Read More

A metaphorical allegory
A real life war story
The first one was to end them all
So they called it great
The next saw evil rise and fall 
One's hate had sealed his fate 

One Korea to Saigon
Russia to Bulgaria-
China to Taiwan
Bloodshed in Syria...Read More

In all schools, there is assembly conn
Which directs the class or school yon
Expectations of all – trustee – the swan:
Choosing topics and teachers from Taiwan.
Keeping updates is teacher’s duty since eon
So is the assembly to represent omicron.
Different themes or topics...Read More

What wells up inside
Down the dark hole coins are tossed for luck
Barriers, born on fear are near at hand

Islanders surface from the past for gambling
Dice people from Taiwan markets dig deep
Mystic water lay five hundred feet below
From here that would...Read More

A metaphorical allegory
Real life-or a war story
The first one was to end them all
So they called it great
The next saw evil rise and fall 
One's hate had sealed his fate 

One Korea to Saigon
Russia to Bulgaria
China to Taiwan

Bloodshed in Syria...Read More

"Political power grows out of the barrel
of a gun" - Mao Zedong.


North Korea has nuclear;
current regime's fear
of falling out is clear.

China, Philippines, Japan,
and Taiwan all claim possession
of South China sea -
China claims it owns the sea
because it has the name...Read More

STORM CHASER

Living on the edge driving into town as others evacuate, 
into harm’s way to the edge,
Mother Nature kickin’ ass. Yours? 
From Taiwan and a typhoon to Florida 
to a hurricane, this is your rush, 
your heart beat of life....Read More

In simple terms
Two sides greet;
Forge a new script

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Two Chinas meet
Singapore Saturday;
November seventh

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Face to face
On neutral grounds;
Sculpt new trends

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A sanguine talk
To forge ahead;
To heal old wounds

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Positive moves
To set bold sights;
To build anew

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History comes around
In one sure act;
New ties bring smiles

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Less haze,...Read More

            i
sleek shiny pussy 
my night-loving feline friend
will you always purr
           ii
dogs rolling the shade
ghost sacrifice dances the haze
we...Read More

The average person laughs 13 times a day
I laugh a lot more often than that
In fact I probably hold the world record
Maybe three or four times that in fact

A katydid hears through holes in its hind legs
You really must be...Read More

WHO CAN SAVE OUR WORLD?

In the year of 1995 the world erupted in so many conflicts 
from the war in Chechnya to NATO bombing in Bosnia. 
This is the vision Dante had when he wrote his books on hell. 
Just...Read More

Totems are formed through a talisman tribal identity.
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Talisman emblems to the tribal identity.
Totem to raise...Read More