<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=422600" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Childhood Sky</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">childhood sky is always bright<br>flying with colourful birds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one exotic hornbill missed<br>its way to jungle, flew to town <br>to rest on a neighbour's roof <br>exhibiting its full splendour<br>and forever painted itself in<br>my memory in refreshing <br>red yellow, horn and all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a migrating egret flew to <br>a tree right in front of our house, <br>stayed there like an old wise <br>white haired man before <br>flying away my heart with it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the varied coloured pigeons <br>that turned the roof into their paradise<br>mating on chimneys, their wings flapping, <br>crowning in triumph over a female</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and their signature rush to build <br>their nest, holding a straw in their beaks <br>the way a scintillating professor <br>out to build a sky of knowledge<br>for his brood, would</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a few of the pigeons even flew <br>a few kilometres back after having been <br>given to our cousins holding dear <br>our hearts high up in the sky </div><div style="margin:10px 0">one magpie sang each morn<br>away on a little chimney provoking me<br>to speak with it in excited nurseries</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a forlorn pigeon waited and <br>waited till dusk for its companion<br>to emerge from the ground <br>disappointed and flew away<br>a grey world of disappointment*</div><div style="margin:10px 0">childhood sky is <br>always bright with tales<br>and rains down memories -<br>sweet, sad, and joyful</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=422600" data-title="Childhood Sky de John Tiong Chunghoo" data-description="childhood sky is always bright flying with colourful birds one exotic hornbill missed its way to jungle, flew to town to rest on a neighbour's roof exhibiting its full splendour and forever painted itself in my memory in refreshing red yellow,..."></div> </div> </div>

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