Breeze ripples
Boughs bow and sigh
Coolness !
*********************
Falling leaves:
a gust of wind showers the ground
gold at my feet
*********************
Visitor @ my window
wings folded, hanging upside down
a little bat.
********************
Dec 31st 2007:
sunny & breezy, foliage rustling
in Botanic Gardens
**********************
Dec storms:
water down soaking walls
drip, drip, drip
**************************
Boom City:
a forest of cranes gouging the earth
scarring my homeland
**************************
Jan drizzles:
on the leaves the crystals
shimmer
***************************
Enright's bench:
sits among tall trees and birdsong
on a sunlit knoll
***************************
JOURNEY
bike ride to the village
amidst raindrops and breeze
the trees raced
*****************************
Deprung Monastery:
temple bells reverberate on cold crags
all around
********************************
In the park
crystals shimmer on the leaves
freshness there
**********************************
Bike ride to the village
chickens in bamboo coops chug by
to some market
*********************************
Rejection is
a cat without shelter
in the rain
***********************************
Boredom is
a long afternoon
in an empty house
***********************************
Fear is
encountering that figure in the dark
brandishing a knife
***********************************
Loneliness is
a brown parched leaf
on a pavement
***********************************
Happiness is
a breeze in the Park
on a hot day
*************************************
Incoming tide:
a blue soft crepe of folds
rolls landwards
*************************************
After rains
olive sunbirds on my willows
begin to whistle
***************************************
Waves on rocks beat
along the shoreline foams splutter
water fountains
****************************************
SNEC treatment
patients with eyes dilated sit and wait like
patience upon a monument.
*****************************************
40 years on
I finally made my way
to Angkor
*******************************************
Sitting still:
a white crested thrush above and I below
in Kent Ridge Woods
******************************************
Agony is
lying on the stretcher waiting your turn
to undergo the knife
********************************************
Lifestyle choice:
an old couple living in an old house
full of old stuff
********************************************
Boom City:
a forest of cranes gouging the earth
scarring my homeland
**************************
Jan drizzles:
on the leaves the crystals
shimmer
***************************
Enright's bench:
sits among tall trees and birdsong
on a sunlit knoll
***************************
JOURNEY
bike ride to the village
amidst raindrops and breeze
the trees raced
*****************************
Deprung Monastery:
temple bells reverberate on cold crags
all around
********************************
In the park
crystals shimmer on the leaves
freshness there
**********************************
Bike ride to the village
chickens in bamboo coops chug by
to some market
*********************************
Rejection is
a cat without shelter
in the rain
***********************************
Boredom is
a long afternoon
in an empty house
***********************************
Fear is
encountering that figure in the dark
brandishing a knife
***********************************
Loneliness is
a brown parched leaf
on a pavement
***********************************
Happiness is
a breeze in the Park
on a hot day
*************************************
Incoming tide:
a blue soft crepe of folds
rolls landwards
*************************************
After rains
olive sunbirds on my willows
begin to whistle
***************************************
Waves on rocks beat
along the shoreline foams splutter
water fountains
****************************************
SNEC treatment
patients with eyes dilated sit and wait like
patience upon a monument.
*****************************************
40 years on
I finally made my way
to Angkor
*******************************************
Sitting still:
a white crested thrush above and I below
in Kent Ridge Woods
******************************************
Agony is
lying on the stretcher waiting your turn
to undergo the knife
********************************************
Lifestyle choice:
an old couple living in an old house
full of old stuff
********************************************
