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Slithers of Life
Beauty in depths of soul
Aperture to the universe
Tuning out blurs of ugliness
Lifting the fog of ignorance
But, by love’s keenest eyes
Slithers of life delectable
Cut from its bladed focus.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Silent Cantata
The basilica of the night
My vaulted dome gilded with stars
Around Polaris I beg spin
My celestial ecstasy
With silent praise and silent hymn
My hidden pulse of heart in prayer.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Strains of Dawn
Sing to me a second chance
Another dawn of reckoning
Facing the music of life
That I too will join its chorus
Welcoming its burgeoning day
Sing to me a second chance
That I may see pain a-new
And walk with it as a friend
As dusk had kneeled down in prayer
For another dawn of reckoning.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Transmutant Mind
Rendered beyond recognition
Dissolving in slipstreams of change
Greatest empathy – cognition
Consciousness – never again the same
A grand whole new species of thought
Evolution and survival
For all love and sanity’s sake
It’s only natural selection
So please ponder
Deep and careful.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Tactile
Sensitive
Never weakness
Easily touched
Is but strength
Taking pulse
Is no shame
First contact
Swallows courage
Embrace the other
Are you game?
Have you the grasp?
Being in touch
Having the knack
Wonder and tact.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Dark Pantheon
Depths of darkness echoed
Oceans of atrabile quaked
The dark is never still
I surf its hidden frequencies
Sang its song of shadows
The black ink that stains
White pages of wisdom.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Wings of Faith
Cathedrals of light we raise
Lifting Man from his dust
Of power and wealth we praise
Yet how different are we to Babel?
Back to dirt and foundations
Humble Man, simple our needs
For my heart only need soar
And my mind to scintillate
A myriad candles to light
For none can soar higher
Than souls unencumbered.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Ana-anima
For each new day
Morning’s light renewed
Its vows to life
For each new dawn
My heart renewed
Its vows of love
As each rainbow arch
A promise and oath
A marriage of colour
Consummation of light
Casting darkness aside
To its shadow and night
Kept in its place of shade
By love’s gleaming lustre.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Scented Rare
You are spirit distilled
Essence of Heaven
Extract of wonder
Fragrance rich and rare
Wafting pass souls
Uplifting with your breath
That all may live
And hope again
Tell me dear stranger
What vision are you?
A mere frangipani dream?
Or could you impossibly be
Sublime grace of Man.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Mirror upon Mirror
Unknowing beauty
Unseen ugliness
And explicit shame
…
Unknowing ugliness
Unseen our beauty
And freedom from blame
…
Flawless and gilded
Polished souls reflect
All of Mankind lame
…
Before perfection
Polished souls reflect
Love’s infinite plane.
Cheung-Ling Wong