john tiong chunghoo Poems

this melancholy dusk
as the rain falls into night
ever so softly
the breath of a dying woman
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Korea demilitarised zone
the roar of men looking for
tiger
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Hangang River
....the tears, the joys
and the excitements
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the only thing undivided
between North and South Korea
a river of tears
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the golden field
so apt the colour
that heralds its value
to the world
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he looms through
the sky, roof of the world
blue, white and all
a bundle of feather
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sweetie swishy doggie
a meowing cat
black as charcoal
under a rickety house
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so we'll go no
more a-roving
your breath spent
concern shown
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paying -
to learn
blanking out
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we married in spring
had red hot summers
this autumn as the cool wind blows
the leaves twirl, swirl
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