City Lit Tiger Balm Days

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Unfold, delineate, demystify, Ting, how
radicals Chinese Characters,
HAO, a woman with a son, symbolises good,
like the cryptic I have sinned in Latin for “I have Sindh”.

Your wizardry with Mandarin words and characters
flashes on the mind Mary Poppins’ bag of talking and writing aids
with calming camellias on the left bank of Confucius and
laughing fields of red, red peonies on the right bank.

All ignorance stops outside your door,
WOMEN say now and will always say,
enlightenment suffuses room 216 with Mandarin
wafting like music from flutes reminiscent of antique Cathay.

Breathalysing the Brexit odyssey,
we sing your signature tune FEICHANG HAO, Ting,
City Lit’s soaring amethyst humming bird on the wing.

1-good  2-we  3-excellent



Dato’ Yunus Raiss
JP FRSA FCIL MEd BA BSc (Econ) Barrister


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