Poems

Why do you approach life

With a serious attitude?

When all you need is to strive

For love and gratitude

When life is so short—

So short of a ride

You won’t be needing more

Just dreams to take you to the sky

Tumbling and prevailing

Through a marvelous sight

Dancing with the wind

Adventure, friends to your delight

And never shall you loose

The thing, treasure most precious

The pirates spend lifetimes but miss the truth

As moments slip by, they're never cautious

Every moment can be enjoyed

If you know what to chase

And my friend, you can design

A life so wonderfully made

If you dwell with your childlike wonder

And live everyday with colors

No longer you’ll be miserable, somber

And in playfulness you will shower

Be the Rainbow, loud and bright

When they see you, they shall sigh

"Someday, I shall be that light"

You smile;

Add some color to our cloudy sky

November 2nd, 2025

Autumn air spinning about

The children’s laughter, screaming around

With songs of the past and rhythms that last

The sun shining on the skin just right

The golden leaves a wonderful sight

Range of colors filled like passion lit a-bright

And the drowsiness of refreshing cool

The relief to be away from the very  thought of school

The things and people that makes you you

Leaving a memory of dream like stance

Forever ingrained like a childish trance;

The warmth and comfort of autumn’s prance

October 25th, 2025

My biggest fear is merely that

A soul a kin has lost their tracks

And fallen into conformity

That would turn out the worst of dreams

As becoming common would indeed

Drown the idea of you and me

October 12th, 2025

The system is broken, with cracks and missing seams

I scour with my binoculars, trying to seek

The cracks to rebel against, despite the impossibility

To mend it together and achieve fair equality

Equality in being able to learn what I need

To learn the way I should be

To learn by being me

Uniformity is an illusion, an illusion at grand

Chasing it can only lead to a tragic descent

Into rounded potentials, and talents hidden for

Achieving the “average”, the “expected”, forevermore

How do we thrive when we are all trained

To be tamed, without question the same

How do we find our passions and change the world?

When all the system teaches us

Is how to blindly follow where the mediocre goes?

But perhaps through the cracks

Is where we find the light

Where we gather back to back

And chase our hearts with all our might

October 10th, 2025

I’m watching the moon and thinking bout you

Can you see the moon too?

Can you see me with you?

Same moon but different places we see

The universe so vast but our dreams still meet

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Happy Autumn Moon Festival, and spending it with you

If what makes this home special, this universe shine bright true

October 8th, 2025

Shedding tears of light

Soft droplets of inexplicable joy

Wielded by years of words,

The bubbling cauldron of prose

The ever shining flame

Powers the image as clear as day

And a mystic air gives way to words unheard of

Propelling my mind and body to breathe with no doubt

Pouring my heart onto the page

Oh, yet what could ever make words

Ever-so endearing to the heart?

And what could make the spells binding

Ever moving to the soul?

What could make the ebbs and flows

Of raw heart poured out in ink

Ever-so magical,

Ever-so prone to dreams?

October 3rd, 2025

Come, come with me

To a secret scenery

Where all of you and me

Become imagery

Come, quick, follow me

Up into the mountain top

As we dance around the daisy lots

And pick the berries on the lake

Into the sunset we dance

Atop the clouds of castle and chance

And love, love wherever you go

Flowing with the ebbs of the rainbow

As the butterfly dance around ourselves

The unicorns playfully fly about

Soar together and never land

The magic and wisdom at the tip of our hands

And the flower would spin in the air

We run into the waterfall’s flair

And dance together in the sweetest earths

Barefoot, hand in hand, we walk

And when time comes we’d sit down

With the fairies’ lights and the forest’s chimes

With our favorite ponies lit bright in the sky

And we’d zoom there through the cavern,

Softly into the night

With all our friends and family here

With all the animals company which we all share

This wonderful paradise of our own

And still, we sit, magic-touched—

And write for all that we will ever know

October 3rd, 2025

Whimsicalities

The stories I’ve read

The stories to be told

The stories I’ve dreamed

The stories I’ve journeyed, the wonders I’ve seen

The wonders I’ve breathed 

Mere magic 

And whimsicalities

August 30th, 2025

They said the little book is my identity

But what depth does it contain?

It’s got my country written all over me

But a little red book can’t paint—

Who am I, never ever it will

Because what matters is hidden inside

People cannot see the stories that comes with the quill

And the castles on clouds, rainbows in the sky

And is there is unicorn prancing through?

Glittering with serenity, shining with dew

Can you see how my past has made me shine?

And my aspirations and hopeful wishes entwined?

I doubt you’ll see, and at the end of the day

You cannot even meet me in the eye

What does where I from have to decide

Everything, and anything, that makes me who I am?

August 30th, 2025

Are we all that different?

Or are we just the same

With a smile on our faces

When people return it with a wave

We laugh when something tickles

In the bottom of your gut

And the tears they all trickle

In the mourning we have sought

And we seek those who understand us

Sharing a similar valued soul

Who cherishes you so close

And bring days from bad to good luck

Or perhaps you may be lost

And lost we all will be

Driven dumbfounded with your thoughts

Until the light sets you free

But one day something changes

Or perhaps slowly it succeeds

Every way you are today

Are but accumulation of what you’ve seen

What has thrust upon your soul

Can further the dichotomy

But in our heart, where no one knows

We are just human beings

So are we all that different?

I reckon we may be

But no way we are too different

And so I hope everyone agrees with me

And opens their heart to others

And forgive, love, always see

That together we are stronger

And everyone is a part of you

And in the end when the time is here

We wish you can understand

That our true differences are mere

So then, we’re practically all family

August 10th, 2025

I know their language—

But I don't speak it

I understand their pursuit—

But never shall I lean into them

Instead my oyster is somewhere else

Where few but kindreds can reach

And a kindred's out there, there's no doubt

But I worry that already their souls have been bleached

To the same color

Same pursuit

And the same language

Somewhere in time,

Though perhaps long away—

Somewhere in the world,

Though if it's real, who's to say—

Someone speaks the language I know

And that language they speak — it speaks with my soul

July 5th, 2025

The footsteps of rain goes pitter patter

The sips of my hot chocolate is comfort extreme

That warms me with the sight of the nature’s chatter

Illustrating the most magical scene to a daydreamer like me

June 25th, 2025

A person will give you miseries

But a person also brings you hope

They can drag you far from your fantasies

Or expand upon your soul

They can make you question your identity

Or give faith and life to your dreams

And leave without a trace

Or remain in your memories

A person is not black and white,

Though that is for sure

And to think that one has two sides

Makes it all easier to endure

Yet no worries, my friend, for all is well and good

As those who deliver the worst to you

Can bring out your valor

And those who bestow the best for you

Ignites a light, and asks for nothing in return

May 10th, 2025

Spring weather brings lousy rains

And drowsy, drowsy days

And a quiet, slumbering May

With the turning of times kept at bay

And in this soothing warmth at home

Or with dew drops on blooming flora alone

We feel new beginnings have come

Awaiting us, adventures to be sung

Stories to be whimsically found

April 19th 2025

The wind brings the blossoms to life

And in a whirl the petals spin

To where it blows for whom will decide?

And it continues as the night has dimm’d

The pink so light twirl entwined

The breeze whisking them into enchantment

And for when time comes that the performance unwinds

It has found another place to give enlightenment

April 12, 2025

Take a ride and we can go back

Five years train is ever-so

Quickly passed and without bore

Perhaps seconds but soon it soars

Yet the feeling of that is never lost

For we’ve kept our happiness for a cause

Slow down and dig in to the olden times

And relieve the live where memories shine

Find that carefree, lively soul

Give love, compassion, you’ve always known

The land of nostalgia lives not in your heart

But in your soul, not dark

But light as the sun

Waiting for nurture

A tag on the shoulder

And a chance to be set free

Thought held with newfound knowledge

Can't we not all acknowledge?

That child in our hearts is who we sought

Give it a chance and that’s who we are

April 5th, 2025

In the hard chair I wait

As I look at the door with wonder

Anticipation spills and on the road it lays

One then the other

Some exchanging waves and smiles

But not as true and filled with joy


Each door that opens

A breeze flies past

Each sound of footsteps

My heart beats fast

So you see people come and go and while—

You step in and you brighten my eyes

So long as the door

Close I will stay

And with a dancing soul I wait

April 4th, 2025

A careful reminder for myself

To look at the past! So profound—

As you laughed and smiled everywhere

Speaking joy like there’s none to spare

Whatever bruises, you forget

And instead spread love, positively of lots

Your imagination is unbound

It’s where your soul is found

No cares for the others

No time to be sad!

You’re you, and who are them?

Nothing can last!

Change your sadness into a smile

Oh, the reasons are longer than the Nile!

Whoever hits you wish swords

Return it with love!

Simple passion where did you go?

Return to my heart, in my world just so!

Look to the past where you stood so sturdy and loud

Because nothing could ever bring you down

So let this be a gentle reminder to you

That when you struggle think of what she would do

And if not, the joy comes from her!

Nothing can stop her from being her true self

Approaching everything with love and compassion

And spreading happiness around

March 28, 2025

There’s so many people in the world!

Each one so unique-

With their passions afire

Following their hearts desire

Chasing on their dreams

Exploring loves of every aspect

Stuffed animals or fairytales

Books and movies, shows of all kind

Kindred spirits must be real—

Imagination and creativity

Will take you to where you need to go

Who am I?

Where do I go?

I’ve got all the time to know

Meanwhile, waiting, could I be courageous?

And should I be myself because where my goal will take me?

March 27th, 2025

Once upon a time there was a magical land

High up in the clouds

Every year the stars descend

And the people on Earth said “Wow!”

Yet waits a whimsical one, in a small town

So just one year, the birthday girl—

She needed just one gift

She sat on the highest hill

And the clouds began to drift

The gift only the kind can find

As the magic finds their minds

Oh, oh, oh

The magic only the unique can find

As the magic dwells in their minds

Floated near the girl with her eyes squeezed shut

A staircase of clouds has fell

She opened her eyes and gasped, but

Are her wishes really coming true now?

She said “I will come right down”

When the sun sits on this hill

And my friends, my family, them I will tell

How the magic, in my hands were yield

As perhaps this tradition will dwell

The gift only the kind can find

As the magic finds their minds

Oh, oh, oh

The magic only the unique can find

As the magic dwells in their minds

When you dream of the stars

And become one yourself

With the compassion in your heart

Let the magic flow around yourself

And be content in your imagination forevermore

The gift only the kind can find

As the magic finds their minds

Oh, oh, oh

The magic only the unique can find

As the magic dwells in their minds

Never give up the magic in your heart and soul

Believe in yourself, it’s been there all along

March 26th, 2025

P.S. This is a poem I wrote which could be adapted to a song (following the VCVCBC form with a conclusion). Nevertheless I'm proud of it just as a poem and I hope you enjoy this story that like always have been brewing inside me for a while!

I keep asking why

But the answer is in front of me

When it’s so easy to loose yourself

Perhaps forever

For the sake of others

And when it’s so easy

To not be like the rest you see

And be left out for who you are

Who, in question,

Would continue?

I would

And that’s why

I am not them

But, due to this

They’ll never be me

March 22nd, 2025

When hardships flow

To your end of the river

Stay safely in your boat

Don’t reach and tumble over

For uniqueness can’t matched

So they try to take it away

Jealousy will thus be hatched

But your kindness cannot be lead astray

What tricks and ploys

Will be known between them and you

But instead shine, than ever, bright

For destiny will never fail to lead your magic through

March 14th, 2025

How curious to call me rigid

When I’m only passionate

Standing up to be unique

When you’re the rigid one

Wanting me to fit in

Telling me that I’m too sensitive, pretending

When I’m only being my truest self

March 11th, 2025

The winter snow drizzles in the river

To wake up blinking from the suns glimmer

The sun’s joyous laughs gives birth to a warming flow

And the ducks, they are the first to know

A rebirth from the chilling breeze

Within sprouts a single leaf

Green and lush as the mountain tops

Rejoicing for the distant melting drops

The bird flies north to the giving sun

To the dandelions as they sprout in am epiphany rush

The sprinkled river asks to be specially gifted

Rewarding the sprinkling of spirits—

To the earth where plants come visit

March 6th, 2025

Igniting sparkles by being together

Like the warm sun in December

Or in June, the breeze of the wind

Blowing through you, caressing your skin

January 22nd, 2025

The first kind soul I have encountered

Words I have said in one way or another

Each time I seem to make up my mind

Yet year after year it seems as if I did not find

The hope growing and fading

A overarching story extending and receding

But the one true person, will they come today?

The recognition that there are people like what my beliefs say?

The one person truly comes

If they stay my doubt will be gone

A new hope for kindreds alike

Ever growing and discovering, far and wide

January 20th, 2025

The trunk is a body, they carry and reach

A mind branching out, filled with dreams

The dreams grow and bloom

Filled with goals and desires

Yet as seasons come and go

They leaves flutter down and join the ground and ember

Are the leaves of dreams achieved?

Or did the branches yearn new ways?

And as the temperature warms with spring

They sprout all again, determined to succeed

New desires to come

New dreams to achieve

More things to dream and reach

Just like you and me

January 19, 2025

My soul is dancing

Filled with joy

My heart is blooming

Fireworks ignite

An excitement flying high

A dance sewn into the night

Fireflies are buzzing by

Giving us a glimpse of the light

January 18th, 2025

A rush of decisions and newfound choices

A tension for the vast unsureness

Your mind screaming “unprepared”

A wrong choice and you mess up, you fear

When did destiny land in your hands?

Is this where childhood ends?

When did the responsibility crash on us hard?

Oh, what can we do to spread out and soar?

The leftover sunshine stays on her face

Yet the shadows left no trace

Her eyes sparkle with newfound excitement

Carrying her magic through the moment

A kindred spirit never found

Making the quickened passing so profound

Cheekiness paired with the brightest smile

Waving rainbows that stretch on for miles

Wishing upon the deepest skies

Yet the dreams never come to life

Hope starts to falter, a thousand limits

But that moment, there is your kindred spirit

‘Twas the day before Christmas!

The first day in Singapore.

How days goes oh-so fast,

As we’re here once more!

My favorite country indeed,

Making the best Christmas treat.

Food, diversity, language, and books,

If I can live here forever, no question I would!

A dumpling lifted on two sticks

Dipping into the pool of vinegar and ginger

Swimming bathing in the flavor

Perfection added to real life heaven

A bite and an explosion

An explosion of exhilaration

Your mind draws an exclamation

All blended in a single moment

Soup explodes so quickly down

The savor the texture oh-so loud

Your throat, your mind, your mouth calls for another

It calls for Xiao Long Bao

Everything is ready to go

Inspiration at the tip of my toes

I can feel my hearts wind blow

When life is perfect just so

Writing fills me with wonder

Wisdom brings back a ponder

Words echoing in my mind

My friend, it’s time to write

The more I grow

The more I see

How we need to know

Our priority

Challenges come

Struggles go

And it changes us

In ways you will never know

Perhaps some things

aren’t meant to be

But what will take you

to your destiny?

But I see and I believe

I hope that I will achieve my dreams

Chase them until it seems

Like it’s always been my destiny

Wake up with anticipation

A day so long awaited

The world is colored in white

Coldness melted by winter spirit

A dream never awaken

Soft flakes in your eyes

On your cheek it lands then says goodbye

Yet in your mind the image brings you to a wonderland

Blue skies hanging over you

Coming up high flakes descend

Sunlight comes, warming you

Covering us in blankets of white

Surreal with tranquil beauty

Whispering into your memories

Soft yet demanding

The world becomes a living painting

A shooting star

Bursting loud

Becomes small sparkles

Lighting the sky

An ocean wave

As the night comes late

The sound of chatter

The hidden laughter

A mystic smoke

Going slow

The remainders of firework

Still on the beach it lurks

Loud pops in the air

Trees sway free

Star blinking in and out

Watching with sleep and glee

The world is gray

Pitter patter on glass

From the sky comes rain

On our cheeks it stains

You hide under your roof

Without notice it soothes

The wind calls your name

But the world is not the same

Yellow fills the air

You run up the stairs

The clouds shine through

The sky beholds colors anew

Red, orange, yellow, green

Blue, purple, much a scene

It glimmers shimmers so divine 

With beauty within all your sight

Shooting like a star

Beauty going oh-so far

Colors like a palate

Enchanting is what it is

In the moment you will breathe

You breathe what becomes of fantasy

The magic, where does it go?

Oh, my friend, I do not know

This bow from here to there

With all the people, you share

Brightening our day of gray

Wiping away what was the rain

What is Summer?

Some may ask

I don’t think of it as a season

Not something that goes by fast

It’s a feeling

Whilst the butterflies play

Whilst the sunshine arrays

And your ideas are tingling

Whilst the animals hop

And there’s flowers of lots

You sit with plants so green

Enjoying icy cool drinks

When you wear on a smile

And you run for a mile

When you feel so bright

Everything brings delight

The world is so colorful

There’s flowers and dragonflies

But it needs your creation

So you let out your imagination

There’s a rainbow in the sky

Clouds are bright up high

You have so much to do

But find yourself dreaming just before noon

The rivers flow through

And you feel the water cool

The breeze, the tweets

Isn’t it breathtaking?

Summer may seem long

As you run under the sun

But just before you know

Summer says goodbye just so

But when it’s a feeling

You can make it last forever

Your heart will be glistening

You just have to savor

I stand here as the ocean waves

I look up and sky amaze

But the only star is the sun

For it created all the peace and fun

The sun shines one last time

Creating colors in the sky

From blue to purple, then to pink

I could forever stand at peace

The water becomes colorful too

All is plagued right too soon

Right then I know that sight is right

For it brings much delight

All around the people cheer

Children run and birds fly free

The clouds, however, they stay put

Only now as pink and orange as they could

Bathing beneath nature’s glee

There is nothing more I need

Besides for all to go enjoy

The sunset they’ve seen many times

Oh, I wish it lasts forever

But I watch as the sun hides away

Slowly it crawls under the mist

Leaving the sky blushing with it's kiss

But don’t you worry, sun, my friend

For tomorrow I will come again

You will rise and set for me

And all the people, they will see

The colors will soon disappear

Though the moon smiles under your stare

But tomorrow, I promise, I will be here

To witness your magic all again

So many wonders

Not always tender

But aren’t they just the sight?

Don’t they bring you delight?

You look at them, jolly

A sight so new and funny

But then you see a glimpse

A mist in their lenses

The crowd laughs and gasps

As the animals does a dance

But are they really happy?

The crowd, always watching?

Where do they belong?

In a zoo, or somewhere less “fun”?

Perhaps they shouldn’t be

Only there to be seen

Perhaps mother nature miss them

And they miss their homes

Perhaps they need their parents

For them to not just cope

Perhaps they don’t deserve

To be put into a cage

To be always preserved

And have no “maze”

Mother Nature created them

To be set to wild

She didn’t make them be tamed

For the humans’ sake

They would be so sad

While you smile, glad

They would miss their homes

While you watch them under your nose

They are living, too

Not something untrue

They want their families too

Not to be trapped, unloose

They deserve to be taken care of

Not left there, hungry and stinky lot

They are more than just objects

That gives you something to think at

So next time you look at the sight

The thought might cross your mind

While you are laughing

Perhaps you should start spreading

If you felt what I’ve felt

The animals need your help

Try and do something

Believe me, you’ll not be sorry

Find it where you least expect it,

Let your mind wander and listen.

Never doubt your imagination,

Then you’ll see your heart glisten.

Into the stars, into the dreams,

Believe in yourself, you’ll see what I mean.

Then you won’t ever feel alone,

After all, you’re finally Home.

Quietly as feather, I fall

I look up in the crescent moon

I look down as the rivers move

Down, a family of three looms

Oh, quietly as feather, I fall

Today, like always, I look down

Even though I’m only crescent, I don’t frown

As the humans carry on

As the river sings a song

Oh, today, like always, I look down

Watching gives me joy, above all

The moon gives me light

The cherries makes me bright

And as spring comes, I stay up for long

Watching gives me joy, above all

Yesterday, I swooshed and I washed the rocks

I stay down while I watch the top

Today is like others, humans come my way

Only to step on the waterless rocks

But little do they know

That tomorrow, I will swoosh and I will wash the rocks

Together we look

At the humans journeying upon

Together we sing a never ending song

As the humans walk, we stay calm

As the humans walk, we continue to sing along

That’s the reason they join us in our song

Here comes spring,

You say on a swing.

Everywhere people loom,

Everywhere blossoms bloom.

Endless blue sky,

The sight brings you delight.

One by one plants sprout;

Here comes spring now.

Ice creams,

Always the summer daydreams.

Never too bleak,

Always the treat.

Open your mouth,

And you’ll savor.

Close your eyes,

And you’ll favor