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Champagne

Live with Toronto

Toronto is thick with dreams
The streets are layered with stories
Dense with emotions and desires
The display windows are covered with fantasies
Replete with imagination and frustration
Above the skyscrapers are clouded with PC talks
Hanging there like smog.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期六十月 20, 2007 10:16 am 发表主题:

星子 · 发表于: 星期六十月 20, 2007 1:23 pm 发表主题:

nice try.

keep on...

I am struggling to write short story now.
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Champagne · 发表于: 星期日十月 21, 2007 9:54 am 发表主题:

ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期二十月 23, 2007 5:09 pm 发表主题:

Living in Toronto

The stories of the high-rise buildings hold people's faces upward.
The displays of the food stands carve human stomachs.
The windows of the shopping malls flash with lustful eyes.
On Bay Street, people can not buy the appearance of time with bank notes.
In China town, human hands do not carry the weight of souls.
Inside the cathedral, God's eye is not covered by prayers.
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

星子 · 发表于: 星期二十月 23, 2007 9:20 pm 发表主题:

Every year there is writing competition in Torontor star.
You may try.
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ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期三十月 24, 2007 8:19 pm 发表主题:

Thanks for your information regarding writing competition.

Toronto, Twisted

A tongue has no bones
Twist it in any direction if you like
And it will turn that way
I live with my twisted tongue in Toronto
A meeting place of borrowed tongues
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

Champagne · 发表于: 星期五十月 26, 2007 3:05 pm 发表主题:

Toronto in Deep Freeze

Toronto is in deep freeze
At minus twenty Celsius:
No fluffy soft snow decorating the cityscape,
No dry powdery snow letting through the fingers,
Only a thick layer of frost underneath the feet.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期六十月 27, 2007 4:46 pm 发表主题:

The First Snow in Toronto

The small soft white bits of ice
Is falling
From the sky of Toronto
On my shoulder
Onto the ground
Along its way
It is singing its song
Silent and light
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

ericcoliu

Champagne · 发表于: 星期二十月 30, 2007 10:16 am 发表主题:

The PC talks about the Canadian multicultural mosaic idea against the American melting pot one are mere political rhetoric; the reality on the ground is the vertical mosaic of multicultural Canada.

Despite the official rhetoric of Canada being a multicultural mosaic and the United States being a melting pot, a majority of both Canadians (70%) and Americans (76%) believe that new immigrants should adapt to their new country’s way of life, emulating the melting pot model according to a new Dominion Institute survey conducted by Innovative Research Group in 2005.

A TTC Subway Car*

A TTC subway car is
A time capsule of Canadian mosaic society
Freezing the lived experiences of otherized groups
The passengers are coldly friendly, disgruntled
They cannot avoid each other
Forcedly making efforts to sit or stand side by side
They are all equal riders who pay the same fare
Guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
In the fast-moving multicultural subway.

*The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is a public transport authority that operates buses, streetcars, subways, and rapid transit lines in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The TTC operates 149 surface transit routes, of which 148 routes make 243 connections with a subway or rapid transit station during weekday rush hours.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期三十月 31, 2007 5:13 pm 发表主题: