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those little needles on cheeks;
your kisses, daddy, are a fond memory
i always turn to for solace.
i love your moustache; they make you
so distinctive.
and your pipe, it makes you so much
like my intellectual hero, Albert Einstein.
i am always fasincated
by the smoke swirling into the air as you
write through the night.
always fascinated why they always disappeared
into nothingness when I was a child.
As i grew older, it has jolted me to realise
that one day we too will
follow the transient smoke;
disappear into the silence
of the night, into another realm.
I am grateful that with each
growing year, my love for you have
grown deeper, thickened like smoke
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© 2004 Anton Rakun
http://www.artabus.com/rakun/
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John Tiong ChungHoo (Malaysia) - is an an award winning haiku writer. Recently he won two haiku contests in Japan, one in kamakura known as the kamakura one verse haikai rengga, and the other a big scale contest organised by the city hall of Hekinan. He also was the runner up for England Snapshot Press Calender Haiku Competition for 2005 and he won an honourable mention for the first takashi hoshino haiku contest organised by the world haiku club along with two honourable mentions and a merit haiku for its annual new year haiku contests. For poetry, he won the merit poem on voicesnet.com international poetry contest and third prize in another on-international poetry contest. His works have been published in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia among others. John takes world freedom to mean he too can dream about becoming a poet laureate one day. he also specialises in other Japanese-styled poetry such as tanka and senryu. John is a Malaysian living in Kuala Lumpur.
For more of John's poetry, contact him below.
This poem Copyright ©2004 - John Tiong ChungHoo. Reproduced with permission.
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