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Father, Mother and Child are three –
But take one away and the other two –
Despite each other’s company –
Will still sometimes feel lonely
11.27.95 – 12.12.95
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.
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Notes to this poem…
What is it like to commemorate
While most around you celebrate?
Ask the many orphans
And single-parent children –
Ask them what they say
On mornings of Mother’s
Or Father’s Day?
07.02.95
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.
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Notes to this poem…
Plenty are the number of guests
Occupying chambers in my heart –
Family, friends and the rest
Are how I divide them apart –
They occupy the three smallest chambers –
Leaving the largest one free –
That – dearest Love –
Is reserved for Thee –
Won’t Thou fill it with love for me?
06.26.95
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.
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Notes to this poem…
The Moon is the lone Child of Mother Earth –
There is scientific proof of its later birth –
But also note the metaphysical proof
That wherever Mother Earth goes through space –
The Moon playfully follows –
Running about Her in circles –
Playing hide-go-seek with Her shadow –
Such is typical of bonds between Child & Mother –
Need I elaborate further?
06.22.95 – 06.24.95
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.
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Notes to this poem…
God has things which He calls His –
I have things which I call mine –
But who really owns the soul that was taken from me days ago –
When the sun for me had ceased to shine?
I claim that soul to be mine –
As it had been in life throughout –
But God claims that it is His –
For reasons only He knows about
Help me! Somebody!
I’ve got a problem here!
A big problem –
And I don’t know what to do!
There are several questions
I require answers to
I’ve got claim of Theft against God!
And I don’t know how I’m supposed to win –
Who will be the Judge of God?
And what Courthouse will He be tried in?
Where can I get myself a lawyer?
I have no experience in law –
Or Law –
Here, all the lawyers are fighting for their own souls –
Albeit in a different Court of Law
So pray tell me –
If anyone has answers to my questions –
Of you I implore!
Get it to the room Father in which has grounded me –
Or else tell it to me outside Heaven’s Door
You see –
I don’t want to go to Heaven –
I want to return to my place of birth –
Where my family kills grass on my grave with their tears –
I want to return to their Haven –
And Earth
Their Haven may be short of Heaven –
But I could never look down from Above –
And watch them mourn whilst I sit with God’s
Facsimiles of my children and my Love
No –
My conscience would never be at ease –
And I would never –
Be able to rest in peace
06.22.95
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion.
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.Notes to this poem…
Parents was a word
Meant to be in the plural form –
But it seems that in society today –
Parent – the singular form –
Is increasingly becoming the norm
06.17.95
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
and published in Perspectives, ISBN 0-9686250-0-2.
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Notes to this poem…
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