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May the Nine Muses join you, and inspire.

from Chiang Mai, Bill

haiku

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i glanced at my watch:

couldn't tell the time;

was it far too late for love ?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Poetry anyone?

Sawasdee Khrup, from Chiang Mai,

Tasty poem, Prosperus11 ! I really like these lines, which I experience as almost Shakesperian in "timbre:"

"written speech, delicate soliloquies bleed our heavy souls
feeding you a feast of tongue-flung beats, our secrets from the shadows"

Are you related to Prospero ?

I hope to soon escape the smog of Chiang Mai for a visit to Kunming, and would really like to meet up with other writers, like Prospero, and Ian, if I come, and if you have time.

While I've lived in Asia for thirteen years of my adult life (one in India, twelve in Thailand), and I have visited Kunming once several years ago (and really liked it), I am really a "virgin" in terms of Chinese, and Yunnanese culture.

As a poet, I feel the need to respond to Prospero with a sonnet:

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on a day made out of glass

soon, on a day made out of glass: i will be broken;
cracked, chipped: a flight of sharp shards, strewn:
and, you'll try to walk, across where i'm scattered;
you'll be cut, your blood'll spill down my fragments

your wounds' pain will magnify my own far beyond
all boundaries any heart has ever double-crossed:
poet's nightingale in orange trees: will be silenced;
crystal-fountain's water-music's sweetness frozen

no one waits pen-ready-in-hand on an empty page
to write of a heart's struggle to begin a confession:
through mere words, starting with the days of flesh,
when i had no inklings fragile glass was: who i was

who'll want to know love's the worst blessed curse;
or, chance finding the true body's bones are china

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Poetry anyone?

Sawasdee Khrup, from smog-bound Chiang Mai.

I am curious if there is any kind of group for writers of fiction in Kunming.

If I succeed in moving to Kunming this year, I'd definitely attend any poetry-related activity.

thanks, Bill