Back in China, families do celebrate
birthday of each member by cooking 5
whole eggs in the morning,
offering a gift such as a new pair of shoes, etc,and a fancy dinner.
Sheng grows up in America, he usually celebrates
his birthdays with friends at home with pizzas
and fried dumplings…Happy Birthday, Sheng!
Paraguay, officially called the
Republic of Paraguay, is a small,
landlocked country in the heart of South
America. It shares its national borders
with Argentina on the south and southwest,
Brazil on the east and northeast,
and Bolivia on the northwest.
Paraguay and Bolivia are the only
two landlocked countries in South America.
How Neat!
Mother is just a simple word
yet it’s especially dear…
And it seems to mean much
more with each passing year…
Each word of Love and Affection
describes you mother…
It’s a word that’s filled with love,
a word that reflects everything that’s
wonderful – Wonderful just like you.
Mongolia is east-central Asian country
that stands landlocked from all sides.
Bordering it from outside
are Russia and China,
in both north and south, respectively.
The majority of the landscape
is covered by arid and unproductive steppes,
leaving very little space for arable land.
Its geography ranges from mountains (north, west)
and Gobi Desert (south).
You lived with me like a maze,
and you took me like a shadow,
There you were melted inside me
and I in you,
We got stuck on a sailboat-
We were directed by the will of the wind-
then harbored at a dark shore
where nothing is alive,
and ghosts haunt,
and we were out of breath
blinding ourselves to see
the shimmering stars.
“Tunisia, known as the Tunisian Republic,
is a republic with a president serving
as chief of state, a prime minister
as head of government,
a bicameral legislature.
Bordered by Algeria to the west,
Libya to the southeast,
and the Mediterranean Sea
to the north and east,
Tunisia has estimated population
of over 10.4 million.”
I Remember, I Remember
I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.
I remember, I remember
The roses red and white,
The violets and the lily cups–
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburnum on his birthday,–
The tree is living yet!
I remember, I remember
Where I was used to swing,
And thought the air must rush as fresh
To swallows on the wing;
My spirit flew in feathers then
That is so heavy now,
The summer pools could hardly cool
The fever on my brow.
I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky:
It was a childish ignorance,
But now ’tis little joy
To know I’m farther off from Heaven
Than when I was a boy.
Today, we are asked to start a poem with a line from another poem, in particular, we need to do a centoes, with a poem entirely from lines taken from other poems, I decide to invent or revise the requirement, I take lines from twitter.com home page, so my poem is the tops writers post at twitter.com, starting from 12: 15pm to 12:25pm…2012, April 25
A Cento By Lexi Jiao Wu:
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way,
Best friends, turned rivals, are sent on a mystical journey to rediscover the joy of fruitful youth,
Analysis: as Europe goes, so goes Obama (CNN),
Life by sunset NOT the same by sunrise,
Mind blowing Sunrise Photo from Mexico-”Cabo Sunrise”,
Nothing is totally dark or totally light, no matter what the circumstances or situations,
You just have to watch n read the TL for your daily dose of laughter,
Shake Spear, Too Cool for School,
Facebook Social App Discovery Added to Android,
Achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can…
Write a poem inspired by an artist, well, I am inspired by many…here is one of my takes:
History’s Memory by Lexi Jiao Wu
Evil pushed the red button,
Boats break the puzzled waters,
Senses retrieved by realizations,
April enabled the missing clowns,
Elevation for p[ainting a mindful image,
Spider webs of the intended tricks,
Orifice showing the deceivers’ pain,
Milk cans for recycling into water bottles,
Duck foot-trails toward drowning,
Diamond of unrelated wisdom,
Eagles see through underground follies,
Plots on itself shrink in circles,
Greed motivates the darkened minds.
The Pinoy haiku or Hayku has three lines, a total 6 words, in the form of 1 2 3 words each line, or 3 2 1 words each line.
Here is my Haykus:
#1—Interestingly
learned today
Pinoy Haiku form.
#2—from your touches
comes fulfilling
satisfaction.
#3—weekend
revives to
be kissed wholeheartedly
#4—broken hearts beat
in upbeat
rhythms.
