Author: Adelene_Tan
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A Young Girl’s Plea
She plays with fire and dances with flames, leaving scars, surviving memories, learning lessons. This ball and chain she wishes to break free from – to have them tossed into a bottomless pit, to have them burned at the inner core of the Earth. “I’m only a tiny creature, ” she murmurs. “I’m powerless, powerless,…
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A Rainbow’s Message
Resting on a lounge chair next to a pool The weather sunny and bright With songs from my ipod So soothing and calm There was a fountain big and tall In the middle of the pool it stood Its water dropping from its height Creating melodious music of its kind I must have dozed off…
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A Mother’s Love
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A Snapshot of Life
Snapshot of life My 3-year-old daughter and her 62-dollar-cry I carried her to her doctor Because she refused to walk While waiting She wailed and cried So loudly The nurses kept asking me why I said she might have a splinter in her right foot The nurses came One by one And saw only a…
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A reflection on what I do for a living
A writer and a poet I am not I am just a scribbler With a tiny passion To express my thoughts in writings Like a photographer Who works his lens And captures a perfect moment With a click So do I A scribbler Who play with words And capture a perfect thought With a pen…