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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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THE TREE OF MAN
The flowers of the Strangling Figare fertilised by wasps.Its fruit is delightfulto green pigeons, hornbills, macaques,barbets, gibbons and langursand ends up in their guts.From there the seedfinds its way to a moist spoton the canopy of a suitable tree.It germinates … Continue reading
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged academic, Brother Marx, Chinese, Europe, fig, flowers, food, fruit, hybrid, islamism, Lenin and Stalin, native fauna, Nepal, roots, seed, tree
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PUBLIC NOTICE
YOU ARE NOW ENTERING SILOM ROADTHE POLLUTION LEVEL IS VERY HIGH The terracotta pavement is linedwith pradhu trees,the symbol of the Navy,hung with orchids (wooden bananas). Outside a shop called “Modern Optical”with its reflecting rowsof à la mode spectaclesis a … Continue reading
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged blind, Chinese, donations, European, human chain, misery, music, Navy, orchids, penguins, pollution, poor, poverty
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HICKORY DICKORY DOCK
A girl pedals.A boy with the dream of her shirt in his eyerides the metal carrier behind,pressing her feet down with his. An individualist stays within call. My shoe cushions a small Chinese foreheadpressing down her eyesfor money.Another kneels her … Continue reading
MEO
He has dirty feet;“Washing is dangerouswash much, sicken and die.”He wears a short black jacketand floppy black trousers.A large silver lock hangs round his neck.She has a blue jacketand a tightly pleated kiltof hemp and cottonwith heavily embroideredand weighted black … Continue reading
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged Bamboo Leaves, bribes, British, Burma, cash crops, Chinese, cotton, hemp, hill tribes, Jungle, maize, missionaries, opium, poor, smiles, tax, Thai, tourists, trees
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CHINESE NEW YEAR
Chinese New Yearalways comes in February.(Usually.) This is the lastof the twelve year cycle;the Year of the Pig. Processions, dragon dances,fireworks and smoke,cymbals and drums. The Chinese close their shops,do not sweep their housesand pay respectto the Ancestors.They put a … Continue reading
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Tagged ancestors, Bamboo Leaves, Buddhist, Chinese, Chinese New Year, dragon dances, drums, fireworks, peacock-eye feathers, Spirit House, year of the Pig
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“DEGREES WE KNOW UNKNOWN IN DAYS BEFORE, THE LIGHT IS GREATER, HENCE THE SHADOWS MORE”
In the search for thornless rosesand the perfect apple pie,many a question posesand many reasons why. Seedless grapes are on the plate(though cloudless summers have to wait).They’ll cut your leg off without pain(though Abel still meets brother Cain). There are … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Abel, apple pie, birth, Blondin, Chinese, cloudless summers, Eden, everybody dies, God, Greeks, Heathens, Islam, seedless grapes, shadows, tattoo, thornless roses
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JESUS SAID
“The sins of the fathersare visited on the children.” When the father goes bankruptthe children and grandchildrenlose their inheritanceand discover poverty. When the Jews rejected Jesusthey refused their inheritanceand their children and grandchildrenare still rejectedtwo millennia later. When the Tibetans … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged bombs, children, Chinese, fathers, Gnomonic Verses, grandchildren, inheritance, Jesus, Jews, poverty, sins, suicide bombers, taxes, Think!, Tibetans
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LOTUS POND MARKET
Looking neither left nor right,a proud and sensitive Chinese face,here by the Lotus Pond Market,seems a little out of place.Straight back, head held high,adjusts her hair with manicured hand;red panung, blue-and-white print shirt,manouvres with care her sandalled feet,as though she … Continue reading
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Tagged Bamboo Leaves, Chinese, Chumporn Street, deck of cards, Lotus Pond, market, red panung
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