Poem about Poetry - The Stolen Words

my neighbours
in the tree
how intelligent
they have been
stealing so many
words from us
and chirping them
in the trees
'always going
through this lane'
'always going
through this lane'
on and on
the bird chirps
in the tree in
the manner
of our native
Foochow dialect

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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