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Oct 2021 · 205
The Light of Life
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Death can wait

life is beckoning

I must celebrate
Oct 2021 · 158
The Parting
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
For several thousand miles
we have travelled together
in the finest and roughest of days
we never doubted each other--

but now you have changed you mind
and a new path you want me to follow
that's not what my heart will consent to
we must part, much to our sorrow
Oct 2021 · 96
A Random Thought
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Don't break

create instead
Oct 2021 · 125
Trusting
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Trust, by all means

but wisely--

many lives have been ruined

by trusting implicitly
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
A dream within a dream, beyond the fondest dream

setting sun sheds its fading light on the silent stream

a gentle mist hovers over the silent trees

how calmly drifts the evening breeze



for my love my heart is waiting

my dream she will soon be fulfilling
Oct 2021 · 137
A Perpetual Lacuna
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
What is false?

what is true?

what law, what clause?

is someone misleading me and you?
Oct 2021 · 139
In Response to Jeff Bezos
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Dear Jeff,

I am a Zen person---I force nothing on myself---
it's the opposite, I aim at being empty---
in that emptiness, I am set free-
what is and what I am merge in oneness--
the doubts disperse and clarity, calmness and joy flood my heart.

In such a moment,  I become the 'richest' person in the world
Oct 2021 · 127
The Other Sides of Me
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I can't understand

every single part of me

I'm happy

to allow them just to be
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
My heart is forest

it hides deepest mystery

am I in a dream
Oct 2021 · 98
C'est La Vie
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Life, first, the engagement

at the end, the dislodgement
Oct 2021 · 611
That One-Thing
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Not wanting

is the one-thing

of my heart's desiring
Oct 2021 · 144
Chance Meeting
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
If me you by chance

at some corner of earth should find

just think of me as someone like you

what I am you need not try to define
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Life is general

   the particular is self
Oct 2021 · 130
Life
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Life is never another land

it's at the palm of your hand
Oct 2021 · 164
Haiku
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Haiku is impressionistic music in words
Oct 2021 · 95
Redemption
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
If redemption

I were to seek

it's from my own within

not from other voices that speak
Oct 2021 · 126
Life is not a Bird
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Life is not a bird

for you to capture

let your heart fly along

join it in  freedom and rapture
Oct 2021 · 172
Being Just Me
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I didn't bring you any present

but would never think of being absent
Oct 2021 · 174
Desideratum
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Let every moment

every encounter

be a silent prayer
Oct 2021 · 92
The Ultimate Gift
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I love so I might live
without love, life would be endless grief
it's what I was born for---not an 'if'
love, love, love--that's what I must give
Oct 2021 · 103
Pieces of Me
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
It was because I wept
that I found the beauty of a smile
Oct 2021 · 181
Desideratum
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Let me grow

gently, quietly,

humbly, lovingly,

selflessly,  compassionately
Oct 2021 · 141
Beware!
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Nothing said by others

should be taken too seriously

let me say here candidly:

this applies principally to me
Oct 2021 · 125
My Nakedness
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
My words are naked enough

my self I can't bare beyond that
Oct 2021 · 115
Random Thought
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
For the wasteful hours spent on gossiping and rumour-mongering
one's life would be so much more enriched by quiet and purposeful reading
Oct 2021 · 496
Blindness
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Too many lives

are led in vying

leaving no room

for living
Oct 2021 · 200
Credo
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
If I were ever to think

life is for the taking

I would have learnt--

nothing
Oct 2021 · 98
The Past and I
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I fail to understand why some people believe the past is a ghost or ugliness to  be set aside.  It has an unparallled beauty , charm, romance and sanctity entirely of its own and will never be replicated.

I think of the love of my parents and siblings, the innocence of my childhood days, my first waking to love, the comfort of friends
and my early exposure to music, poetry and the other arts
which have made my life so cheerful , meaningful and worthwhile.

And looking back I am so full of gratitude for what I had and such thoughts will give me the strength and inspiration to live through my darkest hours
Oct 2021 · 170
The Richest Gift
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Life as is gratuitously  bestowed on me

      I will ever cherish but never blemish her beauty
Oct 2021 · 190
Audit
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
No one need audit me

I have done that over and over

but too wide is my territory

the picture gets no clearer
Oct 2021 · 93
To Be Human
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
You feel sad today?

millions might be sadder

let your heart then say:

'I am luckier'
Oct 2021 · 201
Intoxication
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
There's much more to life than knowledge
sometimes I stretch out my hand the sun to catch
Oct 2021 · 127
The Gift of Nature
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
The sun shines upon

both the rich and the poor

it distributes its light evenly

the former doesn't receive more
Oct 2021 · 116
From the Diary of a Mystic
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
You were on the threshold of the Door of Understanding
which was about to open unto you
but It sensed you still had doubt due to your earthiness
and could not allow you to enter into its Inner Sanctum
Oct 2021 · 105
It's Just Me
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I am just

an ordinary person

don't define me

as part of a 'system'
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Cottage so humble
surrounded by lush flowers
richer than castles
Oct 2021 · 117
Finis
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
At the end

      where would I stand?
Oct 2021 · 80
Don't!
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Don't tell them

they wouldn't believe

lest you end up

in utter grief
Oct 2021 · 175
Telling Sign
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
It's a telling sign

when with myself I grow weary

it's time to move away

lest I end in misery
Oct 2021 · 97
The Future
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
You will still see me then

if you remain a loyal friend
Oct 2021 · 195
Me, alone
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
When all in the  crowd

rushes in one direction

on another route

I focus my attention
Oct 2021 · 91
Self-Portrait
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I am still not ready for beauty

until I have cleansed myself of impurity
Oct 2021 · 108
I Will Wait
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I will wait

             the time is not yet

             longer will I wait

             it's still not the shadow of sunset-



             upon patience my eyes are set

             who's to say it's too late?

              the scheme of things I will not upset

              I will wait before I can hope to celebrate
Oct 2021 · 87
Definition of an Artist
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
An artist has first

to be a dreamer

if he's too much in the sun

masterpieces he cannot deliver
Oct 2021 · 99
That's All
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Life is either

that or this

plan or hope whatever

much would you still miss
Oct 2021 · 117
Lone Journey
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I'm not scared of being wrong

   myself I would never condemn

   unscathed and unbroken

   I will soldier along
Oct 2021 · 169
A Lighter Side of Life
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I like innocent mischief

        it offers so much daily relief

        of numb reason I take leave

        taking things too seriously is endless grief
Oct 2021 · 113
The Essential Side of Me
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I am at best

              only an experiment

               life is my laboratory

               I've to labour until the end
Oct 2021 · 108
Being Tested
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
One is best tested in being rejected

              than in being admired or accepted
Oct 2021 · 81
The Day
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Every day is an abstraction
it springs to life because of my engagement
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