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Farewell
Little boat afloat
Upon lakes of note
Image of the world
Glassy eyes reflect
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Upon a calm tear
Our journey is clear
Gently to new shores
Gently row our oars
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A journey is made
From fallen tears paid
Within each drop play
Sparkled worlds ballet
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Alas ’tis no more!
Upon cheeks red raw.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Insights of Silence
Majestic is silence
Freedom from violence
Untainted by our noise
Enigmatic is poise
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Mystery always return
A cooling balm we earn
From knowledge — searing learn
We hope a better turn
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At peace from burdens’ know
With silence all hopes grow
Into presence, our light
But only a small bite
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Fleeing clamour in fright
Over contending might
Our pride it disallows
Our many broken vows
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Daubed frustrations we paint
Onto blank canvas faint
A quantum of light laid
Or a wave of sound made
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Our pixilated life
A complicated strife
Forever flight or flight
Disconnected insight
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Only in our darkness
Is the big picture sent
Only in our silence
Is Wisdom’s voice be-meant.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Be-caused Effects
Beyond the seers
Those passing years
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Life takes its course
Its only cause
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’Tis no defect
We’re its effect
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’Cos we adapt
And thus react
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With authored clause
Hear the applause!
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No blame or fault
It’s by default
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That we be-kept
Life’s true adepts.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Poet’s Diamond
I’m as pure and clear
As dew on a leaf,
With sparkle and beam
Like a diamond’s gleam;
Shedding rainbow colours
From the light of truth;
Touching the heart
Of kindness and ruth;
Befriending souls
Gentle and meek;
For I’m the teardrop
Upon your cheek:
The precious diamond
All poets seek.
Cheung-Ling Wong
A Beautiful Word
Between Alpha and Ωmega
Your life became word
Spelt and writ
Within riddle and encryption;
Life’s dictionary page en-script
Qualify-able description;
Your subscription – life conviction
Meaningful depiction: be-scribed –
Loudly with exquisite diction!
For life speaks well of your unction
Your most elegant word offered
For an eloquent world proffered.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Gossamer and Shell
To be so agile
We must be fragile,
A moving beyond
The shattering point
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Gather the pieces,
Read the shards scattered,
Our map of journey
Of no returing
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What have we become?
Where are we to go?
Fissures rend new paths
Through old certainties
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Trepidation treads
A new beginning,
Its footsteps fading
Beyond shattered lives
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Our shell is broken,
And the yoke is drained,
Empty lies our nest,
Yet wings are woken!
Cheung-Ling Wong
Finders, Seekers
Waiting for blessings?
There’s no need
They’re already here
Long, indeed,
Beneath the forest
Truffles lie,
Happy times await
Nose and eye –
Circumstances
Patient, waiting
As we nursed
Impatient wailings,
The world bided
A billion years,
The universe
Eternally,
For us to reach
Their amity,
Embracing Life’s
Enormity!
Cheung-Ling Wong
Miracles
Requiem to requiem
Life’s all an eternal wake
Lazarus rose – but one take
I’ve died far too many times
’Tween one miracle till next;
I’m not wishful, no pretext
Bar heart stopping surprises
Till reality seeps in
Defibrillates, entices
To live again, unexplained
For life’s never ‘meant to be’
’Cos there’s always more to being.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Utter
I, the last bud be borne
After ye passing storms
For I follow no norm
That sweeps the paths so clean
Of wide and ambled ease
That none is left for glean
For I have travailed Hope
With faith so perilled steep
Coming last, never least
My tears did pensive peep
Up on heavenly peaks,
The laggard’s last to speak.
Cheung-Ling Wong
Soldier Boy
’Tis the young shoots
That lead the way
Yet cradled by twigs
Since last May
Little boy led me
All the way
Cradled within me
All our days
Life’s bowed legs
Did be-gnarl a path
Doing my best
To find his hearth
Be so strong
Should he fall and sigh;
Bid I fall and die?
Harkened cry
Wilting before
My furrowed deep,
’Twas none but he
Had care to keep
Swaddled within
My loving lair
Spring was so close
To budding fair.
Cheung-Ling Wong
