Meng Lim Dr Poems

Calm is the starless night
but troubled is the heart
deep silence descends
pain will not part-
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After reading Tang Dynasty poetry:

She promised to meet me
at midnight
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It was the fancy
of 'Once upon a time'
that brought so many
such a miserable outcome
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Metamorphosis

It's not late, never too late
to change direction
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We don't have only one brain, but two-
the natural and the artificial:
the former seems out of date
to most the computer makes for the better other
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Love is not an imperative
in marriage --but money:
no woman would enter into it
if there were no security
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When the weary and long-suffering world
has lost its every golden cherished song
and life is no longer a feast nor a pearl
my heart shall still sing, brave and strong-
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The harvest is over this year
I wait for next year's summer
Nature never fails in its promise
One season faithfully follows another.
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Dear Dr Wittgenstein:
what's the meaning of meaning?
does mankind's survival
depend on meaning
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As time goes by
clouds of doubt they disperse
all before you is but the clear blue sky
life's purest water will quench your every thirst-
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