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COUPLET 8 (from the Life-affirming Series)
Dr Peter Lim Apr 2018
COUPLET 8 (from the Life-affirming Series)
With no force should we ever fight
  no victory is won by might
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Couplet 8 (from the Naughty Series)
Dr Peter Lim Apr 2018
Couplet 8 (from the Naughty Series)
I don't like girls
have a phobia about their curls
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Couplet 8 (Travelogue)
Dr Peter Lim Jun 2020
Couplet 8 (Travelogue)
This is a typical travelogue:
bad food, poor sleep, rude people, cultural shock!
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COUPLET 9 (from 'My Life' Series)
Dr Peter Lim Apr 2018
COUPLET 9 (from 'My Life' Series)
I have no reason to take myself seriously
to assume otherwise would cause me endless misery.
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COUPLET 9 (from the Life-affirming Series)
Dr Peter Lim Apr 2018
COUPLET 9 (from the Life-affirming Series)
What I have shirked from doing
I regret---it's been my undoing
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COUPLET 9 (from the Naughty Series)
Dr Peter Lim Apr 2018
COUPLET 9 (from the Naughty Series)
Yes,  for sure,  you were standing
out there but it didn't make you outstanding
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Couplet 9 (Reading)
Dr Peter Lim Jun 2020
Couplet 9 (Reading)
Reading is like eating
      proper tasting and chewing--no swallowing.
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Couplet ( a little of the real me)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 24
Couplet ( a little of the real me)
I am not a hero
       but never reduced to zero
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Couplet ( another view of life)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 24
Couplet ( another view of life)
Life is a musical instrument
   to play well it has to be tuned
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Couplet ( A Zen Paradox)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 24
Couplet ( A Zen Paradox)
The best is wrought
when nothing is sought
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Couplet ( Blindness)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( Blindness)
What you failed to see
doesn't mean that was not reality
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Couplet ( coffee-time)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( coffee-time)
Allow each day for coffee-time
or the day would pass without rhythm or rhyme
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Couplet ( Desisting)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( Desisting)
If your eyes choose to desist
       what's before you doesn't exist
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Couplet (for the drinker)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet (for the drinker)
Don't depend on the *****
for your boost
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Couplet ( from the Life-affirming Series)
Dr Peter Lim Apr 2018
Couplet ( from the Life-affirming Series)
Life would not be an error
if you greet it daily with humour
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Couplet ( Futility)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( Futility)
Many times the same places they visited
but invariably returned empty-handed
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Couplet ( home-cooked meals)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( home-cooked meals)
I have no money to join the local club
my meals I prepare myself--yet the best I sup
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Couplet (Humanity)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet (Humanity)
Whatever you wish to become
only ensure that it should cause none any harm
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Couplet ( I am Mozart)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( I am Mozart)
I am Mozart
the one who knows most art
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Couplet ( If)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( If)
If each day were a contest
      would one's life have any rest?
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Couplet (in praise of the Beatles)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet (in praise of the Beatles)
The Beatles -- they truly knew the right beats
that's why their songs have been sung in all streets
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Couplet ( lesson of the deepest sorrow)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( lesson of the deepest sorrow)
Those who have known the deepest sorrow
no longer fear any adversity that might follow
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Couplet ( life-- in metaphor)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( life-- in metaphor)
Life isn't a place or a spot
it's more the grandeur of your own thought
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Couplet ( Literature in every Life)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 24
Couplet ( Literature in every Life)
Every life is literature, though unwritten
unspoken,  unknown and hidden
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Couplet ( Memory)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 24
Couplet ( Memory)
The long ago is still here
memory holds it just too dear
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Couplet (modern-day disaster!)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet (modern-day disaster!)
Can't remember PIN number
a modern -day disaster!
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Couplet ( my admission)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( my admission)
Honestly I know my folly
but I don't expect others to be like me
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Couplet (my height)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet (my height)
Why would I worry about my height?
I'm not out to court anyone's sight.


 I'm 5 feet 6 inches, if you must know--
I care not whether it were wrong or right
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Couplet ( My limit)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 24
Couplet ( My limit)
My arms can stretch only this far
never in my life have I aimed for the star
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Couplet (my writing)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet (my writing)
I write impelled by imagination
very rarely by dint of reason
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Couplet ( Reasoning)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( Reasoning)
Few people would admit
     their reasoning has a fixed limit
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Couplet (Self-deception)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet (Self-deception)
That which is self-deception
is hard to amend
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Couplet (sensitivity)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet (sensitivity)
Don't ever mention you're a dancer
to someone who's in a disability person's  armchair
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Couplet ( sound sleep)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( sound sleep)
A sound sleep is like a prayer answered
imagine the plight of an insomniac!
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Couplets (the Naughty Series )
Dr Peter Lim Apr 2018
Couplets (the Naughty Series )
I made my day
by getting you out of my way
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Couplet ( That love of theirs)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( That love of theirs)
That love of theirs might be folly
does it matter if they are happy?
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Couplet ( The brutal truth)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( The brutal truth)
It's in the very nature of hate:
not to forgive or forget
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Couplet ( the challenge)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( the challenge)
Life--the inescapable encounter
the challenge I'll accept- run away I'll never!
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Couplet ( the compass of my heart)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( the compass of my heart)
Why would I need any GPS
when my heart is the most reliable compass?
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Couplet ( the consolation of tears)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 24
Couplet ( the consolation of tears)
This is the consolation of tears:
it will build the strong fortress of future years
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Couplet---the Dance
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet---the Dance
Life is the music-floor, dance
while you still have the chance!
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Couplet ( The difference)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( The difference)
People regard theirs as 'wisdom'
when it were no more than 'wish-dom'
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Couplet (the economics of marriage)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 24
Couplet (the economics of marriage)
When empty is the larder
marriage  is in danger
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Couplet ( the hidden)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( the hidden)
The best can't be seen
it's hidden
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Couplet (the illusion)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 26
Couplet (the illusion)
So used to life's trivia
they have taken such as treasure
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Couplet ( the lighter side of Marriage)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( the lighter side of Marriage)
Marriages last longer
if they embrace humour
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Couplet (the meaning of mankind)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet (the meaning of mankind)
Because you're part of mankind
it does behove you to be kind
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Couplet ( the might of silence )
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet ( the might of silence )
What hasn't been said
might carry the greatest weight
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Couplet ( the non-conformist)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 25
Couplet ( the non-conformist)
The louder the crowd
the greater, my doubt
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Couplet (the past and the present)
Dr Peter Lim Jul 23
Couplet (the past and the present)
The past,  remember
but let the present be the master
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