Lantern on water
With five thousand lights
And smoke from fire in centre
03.09.21 – 03.27.21
Harbourwalk Poem W360
From eagerness –
To walk on fire –
To anxiousness –
To walk on glass
07.23.19
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Notes to this poem…
Skating Poem S045
Don’t just light my fire –
Light my inferno –
My spirit light’s eternal
01.19.17
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Notes to this poem…
Skating Poem S044
The fire in my eyes –
Fueled by my pep talk to self –
Kept me warm all night
01.18.17
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Notes to this poem…
Big Lift Ferry Poem F124
Waterfall of fire –
Off MacDonald Bridge –
From the Big Lift construction
06.10.16
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Notes to this poem…
Skating Poem S018
Every night I
Am on the Oval –
Someone’s place is burning down
01.27.16
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Notes to this poem…
Ludwig van Beethoven Clerihew
Ludwig van Beethoven –
Had a temper hotter than an oven –
His music fuelled the fire of life
And torched its angers and strifes
06.24.95 – 07.03.95
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Notes to this poem…
Sonnet VIII
To you, who move with graceful elegance…
To you, in the beautiful attire…
To you, with the seraphic appearance
That betrays a being who is higher…
Every time I am within your presence,
I slow down so that I can admire
Your mystique that holds me in reverence
And makes my heart melt like frost by fire.
Once immersed in your glowing radiance,
I stop to let your beauty inspire
Forth streams of passions of which’s sole essence
Is poets’ hearts melted by desire.
Oh, if only you were always near by,
There’d be proof that some streams never run dry.
03.20.95 – 03.28.95
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Notes to this poem…
One Stanza Poem O008
Some days –
My heart feels like the Hearth
Where Pain and Agony dwell –
Fuelling an emotional fire
That burns very well –
It’s like having my own piece of Hell
02.21.95 – 02.22.95
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Notes to this poem…
Minh Tan's Old Poetry 