Haiku on Children’s Innocence

July 30, 2006 in Blogathon 2006, Memoirs of a Wanderer, Personal Reflections, Poetry, Haiku, & Other Creative Works, Youth & Children's Issues

showers of joy comes
little children dance in delight
how sweet is innocence!
I wrote this haiku not very long ago as I was reminiscing about the time when I was about 5 or 6 years-old playing in the rain with a couple of neighbourhood friends. In those times, life was still simple and one can afford a little [...]

Care for a spot of haiku anyone?

July 27, 2006 in Bookworm Confessions, Poetry, Haiku, & Other Creative Works

After reading about haiku over at the Puisi-Poesy Blog, I felt like sharing a bit of my own haiku compositions that I had done over the past two years since I bought this book by Patricia Donegan which was meant to teach children how to write haiku. It’s a very creative and nice book for [...]

Feeling emo…

March 13, 2006 in Poetry, Haiku, & Other Creative Works

Wounded Soul - by Philip Gan C.K
Raging tempest afflicts the wounded soul,
 
From deep within it lashes out in fury -
 
In agony, the man lies low,
 
Torn between its inherent duty,
 
 
 
“What is left of my wounded soul?”
 
“Where shall I seek another?”
 
 
 
Like the sweeping darkness,-
 
It swallows him whole,
 
All that’s left is wretchedness,
 
All that remain is but a hole,
 
 
 
Torn [...]

A Poetic Tribute to the Man of my life

January 23, 2006 in Family Matters, Poetry, Haiku, & Other Creative Works

You Live On In Me
A Poetic Tribute to my father, a fighter if there ever was one. Beneath the cold, strict disciplinarian and hot tempered exterior belies a tender heart that overflows with love and care for his family.
By Ah Keat @ Philipp, proud son of Gan Ee Kok
Somewhere in my dreams last night
There you [...]