john tiong chunghoo Poems

The almighty
Speaks to us
Through nature
Cos it's an
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secret Love
longing to straighten
that crease on his sleeve
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first sign of summer
the excited laughter
of the ice maker
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poetry is getting
to the roots of us all

getting into that lake
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is god proving a point
or giving himself away
to realm beyond realm?
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Call it a curse, call the thousand years a curse
these temples were made to last ten thousand years
but they now lie like a dream shattered
walls crumbled, even the roots of trees like pythons,
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a real poet means
even the mistakes
between the verses
will not douse the
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if i ever be famous
with my poems
well, i would come
out with collections
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let those few mistakes be
this all-technical age
those are the only signs
that there is a human being
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one life
one soul
shared by
entities
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