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On Silence
For Ee Tiang Hong (1933-1990)

You once said:
‘Silence is the purest language.’

And now you lie, somewhere
Between ‘earth and sky’,

While below you I stand,
Not able to say a word.

By Mark Pirie


QLRS Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003

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  Other Poems in this Issue

Rimutakas
By Mark Pirie.

Mouth Piece
By W.B. Keckler.

Here Russia spreads her legs like the body compass of a prima ballerina
By Ronny Someck.

Return to Kuantan
By Oswald LeWinter.

modes of transport
By Shazanah Hassan.

Planting Mines
By Thow Xin Wei.

The All-Night Attendant at the Foreign Experts' Compound
By Charles Lowe.

 

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