Dr Peter Lim

Dr Peter Lim Sep 2021

Life's Summary

Everything in life
is unfinished business
even love and hate
joy and sadness

Dr Peter Lim Sep 2021

Transience

Words I have
as alive I am now
they stop on their own
when to the last farewell I bow

Dr Peter Lim Sep 2021

Life--the Sharp Ascent

People talk of their strengths

       as for me,  my weaknesses I study

       life is a sharp ascent to better-hood

       what in future would I be?

Dr Peter Lim Sep 2021

Haiku inspired by Pissarro's AUTUMN

Colours of autumn
speak of deep melancholy
of fragile beauty

Dr Peter Lim Sep 2021

The Recluse (after Emily Dickinson)

What I am or not
none need to know--
in the public eye
I've nothing to show-

alone I live in some unknown fringe
where none would ever want to go
silence is ever my unfailing friend
by night the gentle stars for me they solely glow

Dr Peter Lim Sep 2021

Haiku inspired by a Photo of a Secondhand Book Store

Such gems to treasure
old books in unknown alleys
each carries a tale

Dr Peter Lim Sep 2021

Haiku inspired by a Painting

“moonlight and mist caught in [woods] like lamb’s wool on bushes in a pasture.”
— Elizabeth Bishop, from “The Moose,” Geography III (Noonday Press, 1988)
Edinburgh, Scotland

Sweet melancholy
autumn mist and pale moonlight
gentle stream murmurs