Short    Poems

 

Cookie for My Sweet

 

Cookie-burra sitting in the old clay jar

happy, happy, chocolate chips for free
Yum, cookie-burra, yum
cookie-burra, sweet my life must be

 

 

 

 

Soda Stream Sea

 

walking in

the white-caps

is like

walking through

a soda stream

I like the feeling of

my feet and legs

being washed

by a fizzy yummy soda drink

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surfers

surfers are water birds

bobbing on the waves

surfers are stream-lined

coloured fishes

swimming along

the surface of the water

until the waves

and sudsy surf spill

the surfers

and they become people

reaching for their surf boards

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seagulls

Dollops of vanilla ice-cream

scooped on top of a crisp cone wall

splashed in ones or twos –

suburban seagulls

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The Beach

 

The beach is a vertical cross-section

of jewels and mother-earth

The "top-soil" is burnished gold

by the setting sun

Beneath it runs a seam of milky opal

The opal lies on precious

silver grains of sand

and a film of nacre shimmers

at my bare feet

 
 
(c) Lai Chew Yarn
 
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