<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=422358" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Birthday Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">lone traveller <br>from kuala lumpur to tokyo to china <br>cold places, strange people warm and cold<br>so many unknowns that became knowns<br>that resulted in an occasional shopping tete-a-tete<br>and at those fortunate birthday celebrations<br>thrown by foreign friends<br>met at school, work place<br>we uttered words usually made between<br>friends of mere days<br>a coldness in between<br>as we sung and tried to break the ice<br>between the candles<br>lighted and blown<br>and they were usually in the nights<br>when lonely hearts sought out avenues<br>to brighten things up<br>for themselves and their newly acquired friend<br>and also workplace friends<br>who try to punctuate the life of a foreign soul <br>with things famliar, to light up the candles of his life journey</div><div style="margin:10px 0">inspired by: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Birthday Poem<br>Just past dawn, the sun stands<br>with its heavy red head<br>in a black stanchion of trees, <br>waiting for someone to come<br>with his bucket<br>for the foamy white light, <br>and then a long day in the pasture.<br>I too spend my days grazing, <br>feasting on every green moment<br>till darkness calls, <br>and with the others<br>I walk away into the night, <br>swinging the little tin bell<br>of my name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ted Kooser</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tiong+Chunghoo">John Tiong Chunghoo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=422358" data-title="A Birthday Poem de John Tiong Chunghoo" data-description="lone traveller from kuala lumpur to tokyo to china cold places, strange people warm and cold so many unknowns that became knowns that resulted in an occasional shopping tete-a-tete and at those fortunate birthday celebrations thrown by foreign f..."></div> </div> </div>

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