Assuaging our thirst drives us in from the street,
shoppping fatigued; a welcome retreat
as a menu of delights rewards us with tea,
Black Yunnan for you and Silver Tips for me.
Smooth liquid sunshine kisses Ruby Woo lips,
puckered to perfection; taking delicate sips,
savouring the euphotic zone where the flavour is mellow
deliciously steeped to an exquisite yellow.
Anecdotic tales shared in our corner recess,
chitchat and gossip; secrets we confess
over an exotic brew drunk from that porcelain chalice
precious moments imbibed at the Szechuan Palace.
Categories:
yunnan, drink, sensual,
Form: Quatrain
This road trip
Fond air sip
Spring's new face
Blooms in place
Tour bus speeds
Road firms need
Flight of sight
Dawn hurls light
Rice fields stretch
Glimpse fond catch
Old world gaze
Thoughts frame daze
Miles and miles
Sketch our smiles
On the road
Tour finds loads
Old world charm
In odd farms
Bus glides fast
Glimpses past
Yunnan chimes
Time now rhymes
Leon Enriquez
24 May 2017
Singapore
Categories:
yunnan, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Here and Now
Embrace being;
Sense becoming
~~~~~~~~~
Know your heart,
Keep love true;
Joy tells on you
~~~~~~~~~
Pain empties pocket
Failure tumbling down;
Broken heart in pieces
~~~~~~~~~
Brief interlude
Eternity awaits;
Now and Here
~~~~~~~~~
Twin souls meet
Glimpses of fate;
Love greets beauty
~~~~~~~~~
Sad countenance
Grief bleeds;
Sorrowful sculpture
~~~~~~~~~
Ending chapter,
Fresh start prompts;
New page awaits
~~~~~~~~~
Sanctuary here
Silence greets;
Stillness restores
~~~~~~~~~
Guardian Angel
Insight comes;
Aha! moment
~~~~~~~~~
Metamorphosis
Joy comes around;
Exfoliates gross
~~~~~~~~~
Rainy day
Wet and wild;
No birds sing
~~~~~~~~~
Old lake pavilion
Ancient echoes;
Mid-autumn whispers
~~~~~~~~~
China glimpses
Tour memories return;
Old Yunnan tales
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
08 September 2016
Singapore
Categories:
yunnan, change,
Form: Haiku
MOONGLOW 2
Words sculpt
Moments frozen;
Death stalking
~~~~~~~~~
In one swift stride
Joy ride ends;
Broken romance
~~~~~~~~~
Swift dash
Purpose crumbles;
Hide-and-Seek
~~~~~~~~~
Bamboo screen
Leafy mirage;
Old China glimpses
~~~~~~~~~
Peach blossoms
September harvest;
Longevity sums
~~~~~~~~~
Arc of new moon
Bright aura spreads;
Lovers by old bridge
~~~~~~~~~
China Yunnan tour
Moments recalled;
Old town bazaar
~~~~~~~~
Dreams float
View the highlights;
Notice bright hues
~~~~~~~~
Whispers
Soft breath;
Windy cascades
~~~~~~~~
In the deep dark
Night set free;
Dreamtime constellations
~~~~~~~~~
Sad melancholy
Lingering pain;
Lonely lover waits
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
20 September 2015
Singapore
Categories:
yunnan, beauty,
Form: Haiku
Watching and waiting
Nothing happens;
Until just now
Trade buzz
Money changing hands;
Bazaar commotion
Old shophouses
Newly renovated;
Brisk traffic parades
Corner cafe
Stray conversations;
Small talk overhead
Spring time blossoms
Yunnan, China journey;
Leftover memories
Midday siesta
Groggy with fatigue;
Day dreams of old China
Humid and hot sweat
Sun fires fiery fever;
Cold drink comforts
Noisy food court
Rush of lunch crowd;
Food salvation seekers
Fashionable retail
Branded goods purveyor;
Peacock feathered nuances
Welcome now
Our store promises plenty;
If you've got dough
Face after face
We measure our lives;
Sales offers escalate
Leon Enriquez
19 June 2014
Singapore
Categories:
yunnan, repetition,
Form: Haiku
(Dedication: For Zhou Junchen, Joseph
-- Our Chinese tour guide in Yunnan, who
took us on an amazing journey, with
kindness and great patience.)
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Yield to memories in pictures we take;
Urge strange new cultures to shape experience;
Note quaint history as old puzzles make;
Notice thought nurture both real and transience.
Align fine vistas with place, sights and sounds;
Nimble a short while and relish the feel.
See tour agenda in places new found;
Touch-taste, sense and style deep longing that heals;
Opt to embrace each panoramic view;
Prime your own pleasure with insights that surge;
Open heart can reach soul pleasure that cues;
Voice sparks fond treasure as beauty primes urge.
Enjoy your fine stay in moments that come;
Reap beyond mere play fond feelings that sum.
Leon Enriquez
27 May 2014
Kunming, China transit;
Singapore homecoming
(Note: This is an Acrostic Sonnet.)
Categories:
yunnan, earth, journey,
Form: Sonnet
(Dedication: To all readers and friends and
the PoetrySoup community who find delight
especially in my Alliteration poems. Thank
You for your support.)
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Rich reason rhymes
Enter each etch
Affluence aligns
Play plunders patch
Real roaming raves
Endow embrace
Applause amaze
Prime precious pace
Reach respects raid
Echo each end
Apply apt aide
Primal poise pens
Rhymes reel relent
Embark embloc
Answer attends
Poise pens prologue
Ride rivers real
Expect endow
Assign assail
Practice prompts plough
Retrace rich rays
Endings express
Appease allay
Poignant progress
Roaming real roads
Effort explodes
Applause attains
Pleasure pines plain
Riddles reap rust
Enlight each ease
Affect apt ask
Prime profound peace
Rich rays reveal
Each end enjoins
Appease appeal
Peace provides point
Leon Enriquez
22 May 2014
Lijiang, China
Yunnan Province
Categories:
yunnan, blessing,
Form: Alliteration
Early rising
Sparkling skies;
Sublime moment
Dearest and I
Get ready;
Tour group assemble
Tour coach speeding
Jerky vibes;
Highway pulsations
Chinese lady guide
Delivers tour highlights;
Foreign inspiration
Off we go
Profound talk;
Morning invocation
Lijiang Expressions
A theme park act;
Chinese folk drama
Expectations
Captive tour audience;
Lijiang story
Vast mountain range
Snow-capped peaks;
Silence speaks loud
Supersonic boom
Speech echoes wonder;
Our ears feel blast
Overpowering sonic
Lady tour guide drenches;
Too high decibels
So many words
Stressed and jarring;
Blazing this mountain road
Joy lives here
Spring lingers;
Awesome mountain side
This old village
By this mountain;
Agrarian dialect
Cotton candy clouds
Breeze the peaks;
Touch of heaven
Ancient village
Historical tribal culture;
Displaced by modernity
Theme park sojourn
By mountain side;
Photo snapshot collection
Leon Enriquez
Lijiang, China
Yunnan Province
22 May 2014
Categories:
yunnan, anniversary, dance,
Form: Haiku
Trust travel truce
Opt odd offer
Urge unfolds use
Ripe rides refer
Trail troubles team
Observe options
Unleash upstream
Raise real reasons
Thrust tender test
Outcome observe
Urgent unrest
Reach rich reserve
Touch tender trim
Ointment oils oomph
Use urge umpteen
Rest rowdy room
Travel trims tale
Open odd oar
User unveils
Rapture rides roar
Tribal tension
Obey only
Undo union
Rescue richly
Tour times trade
Offers onslaught
Upstage unsaid
Reap rich rewards
Leon Enriquez
21 May 2014
Jisiang, China
Yunnan Province
Categories:
yunnan, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
(Note: I am going on a journey to Yunnan, China
from May 18 to 28 -- to explore the wonders there.
My poetry posting will resume when I come back.)
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This tour trip
Special iterinary;
Yunnan beckons
Journey into
Mysterious realms;
Places in time
China gateway
Manifold possibilities;
Fragrant surprises
Here we go again,
My sweetheart and I;
Cheer enters sweetly
Spring time
Old China moments;
Modern settings
Lovely momento
Fleeting scenes;
Formal entrance
Wonder awaits
Our wandering;
China expose
As we leave
For the airport;
Thoughts of home
This hiatus
From ordinary days;
So much to pack
Hiatus like escape
Forfeits daily routines;
Holiday diversion toil
Hiatus from posting
No online e-poetry;
Just words on paper
On the road tour
Good writes will come;
Ink stains on parchment
Till then my friends
"Thank you. Be well. God bless."
More poetry 11 days forth!
Silk Air flight
Sunday wee hours;
Off we go then
Leon Enriquez
17 May 2014
Singapore
Categories:
yunnan, journey,
Form: Haiku