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Dr Peter Lim
Poems
Feb 2020
The Architecture Of A Poem
Here's the first line
................................
it doesn't sound right
prosaic, sterile, dry
I'll try again
*
*
*
*
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I quite like
shall start on second line
stuck for words
???????????????
I'll adjust the first line
OK, what follows seems fine
soliloquy 1
( I have laid the foundation)
the pillars I have to *****
balance they must
and hold the main-frame
shouldn't be too low or high
(soliloquy 2: if I fail, the whole structure
would collapse)
I have no intention to rush
patience is what I require
from the workshop of my mind
and storeroom of my heart- tools I must find
(on looking back-
that stage was my forging
heart, body, mind
the gruelling and testing)
(soliloquy 3)
now I re-examine
what's in my design
every word is like a *****
that must not misfit--to be fine
how I sweat and labour
into the project myself I surrender
the minutes tick, then the hour
the building is taking shape
behind schedule? Never mind!
at last, through the window
I look from the building done
how lush do the flowers blow
under a warm and smiling sun!
Written by
Dr Peter Lim
M/Victoria, Australia
(M/Victoria, Australia)
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