thecreativespace
Fingers fumble,
sweat beads on blue hydrangeas
of unused chinaware. Expensive wedding
gift, why not a field of flowers?
Porcelain plate can feed
forty or maybe
fifty mouths faint
from poverty.
Fine saucer, a drop
and it breaks. Are
we as
fragile?
A breath of
death,
we are
dust.
(Angelina Bong is a poet and visual artist. She represented Malaysia at the 3rd Delphic Games 2009, Jeju Island, South Korea in the Lingual Art-Poetry Category. Since then, her poetry performances have travelled abroad to South Korea, South Africa, Botswana, UK, Australia, India, Egypt and Japan with some poems translated into Malay, Korean, Malayalam, Japanese, French and Arabic. She is published online and in print including several poetry festival anthologies. Her first solo Poetry and Art Exhibition was held during a Writing-Art Residency 2018 at Toji Cultural Foundation, Wonju, South Korea. Her most recent international guest poet appearance was at the 51st Cairo International Book Fair 2020, Egypt in January 2020 before the pandemic hit. She is the winner of the Poetry-Adult category of Georgetown Literary Festival’s ‘Wake Me Up When This Is Over’ contest.)
(Image credit: ArtCoreStudios from Pixabay)