LITERATURE
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Heavy with expectation -
It wasn’t planned -
Yet once heard
The news is more than welcome
CELINA MCEWEN
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Life on Earth might end in 200 years, but it won’t be because of the Apocalypse, says China’s most high-profile “popular science” writer Fang Zhouzi.
The asia! team
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Never lose your passport, said my father
At the gates. This book contains your name, and
Date of birth. It’s proof that you exist. I
GAYLE GOH
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In awe i stand and smile
in awe i am silenced
by the gentle flutter
of butterfly wings --
FARHEEN MURKI
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Montreal: Fall
Tell me it must be the weather
that dyes my mind white, congeals thought –
KARTHIKA NAIR
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You're on your own babe.
CLAUDINE WANG
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Awake! For the Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light.
OMAR KHAYYAM
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It’s the Chinese Year of the Rabbit! To celebrate all that is fluffy and floppy, we bring you 12 of the world’s most famous bunnies.
CLARISSA TAN
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I wrote this poem because my school decided to have a poem competition to celebrate National Poetry Day. The teacher of my English class asked all of us to enter. The theme of all the poems had to be about "Home."
SOFIA SHAMSUNAHAR
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I imagine
how smooth
that this
scar tissue
of yours
TRISSHA NG
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The operation was massive;
designed to give new life
to the old lady.
LEE TZU PHENG
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I don't know if history repeats itself
But I do know that you don't.
YEHUDA AMICHAI
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Freedom.
How her spirit
Haunts,
Hooks,
Entices us all!
NIMAH NAWWAB
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I come from there and I have memories
Born as mortals are, I have a mother
And a house with many windows,
MAHMOUD DARWISH
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When my time comes
No one's going to cry for me,
And you won't, either
The hell with all those tears!
CHAIRIL ANWAR
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