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MS Lim Nov 2015
Say hello
  to the moment
stretch out your hand
and you say with an open heart
what's in for us?

it replies
well--it's just you and me
I am the stage
you are the actor
I can't even raise a finger
unless you make the first move
there is no show without you
I have no life nor delight
of my own

no philosopher am I
call me an ordinary bloke
I didn't go to college
(just an average student-
finished high school at 17
poor family I came from
  dad was an odd-jobs man)
I held several jobs
but disliked working for others
now a farmer
with a helping wife
(we have two kids--very young still-
one boy and one girl-
we adore them)
we earn enough
decent living as the saying goes

I wake up early
and hello to my farm I say
I talk to the plants (they grow better
as they understand what I say)

after harvest
to the town I take my produce
and then I say hello
to the people who walk by
and they say hello in reply
these are great things
you bring--I'll have these two
also that over there
hello- what a magnificent word
just the sound makes me happy
and I am in the day's doing-show

to me
life is just saying hello
I have an unwritten alliance
with moments in time
they are with me
wherever I am
and wherever I go.
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MS Lim Nov 2015
You hear my pretty words
but can't read my mind
deception is my art
I leave truth behind

people love me
they say I am kind
poor believers
truth--blind!
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MS Lim Nov 2015
LIFE AS A SCORE-BOARD?
    
    Why treat life
    as a score-board?
    with pen and paper
    adding up the points
    grumbling when you fall short
    every dart you throw
    is like one in vengeance
    with bloodshot and greedy eyes
    score
    score
    score
    more
    more
    more

and when the mark you missed
anger and shame swell in your face
like one consigned to disgrace
and you got terribly ******

   why treat life
   as a source
   of self-satisfaction
   and self-glorification?
   you feel good
   like a Napoleon
   or Alexander The Great
   when those around applaud
   your feat and prowess
  
   but
   too soon
   the night dissolves
   everyone in the bar
   is tired of the silly game you play
   enough drinks and folly
   for the night
   they start to walk away

   in the dart-room
   you are playing a game
   no one does bother to care
   and soon enough forgets your name
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MS Lim Nov 2015
Stopping by in quest of wonder
is ever
a new experience
never
ceases
to delight
he who knocks on life's door
is granted entry--be it day or night
* inspired by Hanna Mae Mata, a fellow-writer.  I have told her about this little poem
MS Lim Nov 2015
PRUDENCE

I paused and took a step back
I looked around and was unsure
' You're a coward ' my critics chided
I replied: ' For folly there's no cure'.

Prudence has taught me
Life's prizes and trophies are never easy to secure
I've seen so many mighty giants fall by the roadside-
They were too arrogant and too cocksure.
NIL
MS Lim Nov 2015
BEYOND THE RAINBOW OF OUR DREAMS

         Beyond the rainbow of our dreams
         we'll build our home and together share
         the light of the moon and stars
         fly among the clouds as a pair
        
         of love-birds carefree and oblivious
         to time--the holiness of the heart's affection
         the whole universe encompasses
         love is truly ceaseless adoration
        
         guided by faith that serves only to strengthen
         this sacred bond to which we are sworn
         no longer shall we be earth-bound
         but to a celestial life reborn

         behind the veil of time abides
         love's sweetest mystery
         beyond the rainbow of our dreams
         sublime beauty belongs only to you and me.
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MS Lim Nov 2015
Catch every moment
time does fly
embrace love
lest it should pass you by

having courted and won over love
faith you shouldn't leave behind
constancy never fails in duty
affection outlasts time and is forever kind.
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