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February

It is already February,
As the snow drifts and lattices
The cheek, as frost corners
The plane turns of surfaces.

The winter must reach its trough,
Before spring comes to urge
The pulse of bud and trial, before
The arc of expiration completes.

It may be peace, I think, this
Quiet night with the storm outside,
This silent looking into another face,
Drawn in tender lines of tiredness.

The winter must reach its end,
If the routes between our minds
Intend, or if the way to love disappoints
Utterly, and the leaves, like tears, begin bright.

By Ng Shing Yi


QLRS Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

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  Other Poems in this Issue

Beethoven, Opus 92
By Zhang Ruihe.

The Wall
By Eugene Datta.

Morning
By Eugene Datta.

The News
By Joanne Leow.

Second Day of Mourning
By Gaston Ng.

You make it easy to leave you
By Wendy Gan.

ICU
By Grace Chua.

Memento Mori X
By Yeow Kai Chai.

 

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