Concrete Hurt

Concrete hurt
In bruises
In scars
On realms
Of skins
Deeper damages
Slaughtering
The heart
You slay
This value
He cannot
Hurt you back

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Home Is Backpack

Home is
backpack
Travel is
feet
Hands and heart
make poetry
I am my own
federal god

(written on October 26,2008 Hanoi City Vietnam)

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Corn

Nibbling
Your kernels
Layer to layer
How sweet
How supple
Unlike your husk
You are palatable

(Written on October 06 2011 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia)

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Darned

Capsized like
a vessel
You poured
your “idioms”
My ears start
to prickle
Your darned
mad manners!

(written on January 4,2011 Singapore)

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Rodent

My nocturnal enemy
Sneaking when
I am not awake
You hurt my skin
With your front teeth
Gnawing and eating me
Slowly to death

(Written on October 12 2011 Singapore)

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Pinnacle

Reaching—
The heights of you
Touching—
Your beautiful soul
Asking—
For more
I was born
To love you
And to love you
Even more

(written on September 1,2011 Singapore)

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Trojan And Germany

Indigo soldiers
Of little aquarium
They mock a war
They mock a swim
These toys are
Depicting tragedies
Of Trojan and Germany

(written on July 2,2010 Danang City Vietnam)

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Solar

Your upside
Your windfall
Is a star-spangled
Conception
Flicker more
Sparkle forever
You defeat
My darkness
Vanishing my
Sightlessness

(written on September 3,2011 Singapore)

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Celtic Ducks

Cross over
To opposite self
Plastic, fake, false

Leaving this
Truth of me
Unnatural, artificial

End of us
Hurting me
That’s the truth

(written on August 30,2011 Singapore)

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Twilight and Dawn

The sun has set
Darkness has chased the world
Daylight fades
There are twinkle stars, there—

Wee are the twilights
They procure rapid motions
Dawn draws closer
Wee are the dawns, too—

The silhouette of earth
It fiddles with twilight and dawn
Ambiguous—
I forgot to hear myself

(written on August 31,2009 Danang City, Vietnam)

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