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 Dec 2018 Star BG
J-J Johnson
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 Dec 2018 Star BG
J-J Johnson
My grandpa
             Words he gave
                            To me once upon a full moon
“Son” he said
            “When you go into this life”
“Remember, that love is a language “
             “So find, my son, find someone”
                     “Who speaks your language “
      “So you don’t have to translate your soul”
                                   Hmmm.
12/17/18
 Dec 2018 Star BG
OpenWorldView
White clouds set on fire.
Ash blackening azure sky.
Infinite canvas.
Death gives way for new life.
Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.

No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings?—
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?

Whate’er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o’er the sickle bending;—
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
 Dec 2018 Star BG
Dr Peter Lim
He was well-paid that day
   as my guide--Mr Salam Mat-Abu
   but he robbed me on the way
   to Timbuktu!
 Dec 2018 Star BG
Dr Peter Lim
'Have you read the news?'
you asked me in earnest
do I really need to know?
ignoring such ******* is best!
 Dec 2018 Star BG
Dr Peter Lim
Fear is that force
   that's beyond the self
   if you could be its master
  you would conquer all else
 Dec 2018 Star BG
Dr Peter Lim
The punk drove his car in rage
mistaking that for courage
 Dec 2018 Star BG
Dr Peter Lim
Too many places are crowded
    too many people in every part
    I am never upset or disappointed
    there's plenty of room in my heart
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