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It is nice –
To be considered for love –
Even if ten years late –
But I’ll pass –
Not so much for the slight –
As the lack of insight
11.04.16
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion.
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Notes to this poem…
Love can be –
What you see
In another –
That others –
Including themselves –
Don’t see in themselves –
Including when it
Does not exist
04.17.16
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion.
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Notes to this poem…
Whenever love makes no sense –
Remember that love
Is not logical
01.11.14
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion.
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Notes to this poem…
When I lived in Halifax –
I lived by the sea –
That sea – over the years –
Became a part of me
Now – in my adult life –
I no longer live there –
But I still have a bit of it left in me –
A small supply that I take everywhere
I use this supply sparingly –
And only when I’m alone –
Drinking the few precious drops I shed –
Each time I need a little taste of home
07.01.96 – 09.08.97
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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 sea in front of me
Is a beautiful blue –
As is the cloudless sky above –
Though of a different hue –
As am I –
Though of yet another hue –
On this island of loneliness –
Without you
07.03.96 – 07.11.96
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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…
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…
When someone we love dies –
The stars within our eyes
Fall from their places –
On to our faces –
In the process –
They become meteors –
Falling as meteors
Do in showers
10.08.95
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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…
In her – I had a piece of Heaven –
Before my time for Heaven had come –
But a jealous Seraph in Heaven
Took her away and left my heart numb
Of all the maidens the eyes could see –
Something special she must be
To force a Seraph to steal her so He
Could claim her for His company!
Disregarding woes caused unto me!
07.05.95 – 07.08.95
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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 memory I have of my Love
Resembles that solitary
Tree silhouette up on the hill –
And so long as I remain Here –
That tree silhouette will appear
Just as motionless and as still –
As my Love who lies up on that hill
06.06.95
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Copyright by Minh Tan on listed dated of completion
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Notes to this poem…
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