Roy Lee Poems

It has been harder to find you lately
Yet I seek you every day.
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Sterile Singapore is a typical tourist trap
There's a concrete Merlion for a holiday snap
The city state is built as a giant shopping mall
But its a regiment that is often a bore.
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In the Vienna Woods, I took a walk
A March dampness in the air
The trees were still Winter bare
Standing stoic as if in silent talk.
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What did you see?
Voyager looking back.
Did you see me?
A blue speck in a pack
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Sunday at Serangoon Gardens I take my run
Quite early to avoid the hot midday sun.
Out of the condominium and onto the road,
Past the trucks with their garbage load.
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The August moon
Was already high
When I awoke.
Outside the seafront
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Concrete claws challenge the sky
Sacred stairs towards a glazed heaven.
Glass and steel that shimmers
Like statues of gods standing high.
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Love like a blanket descend
Lovers as two people blend

We are wrapped in each other’s caresses
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A mouse has moved in under my bed
A refugee rodent looking to be fed.
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Looked at the blog from Ai Weiwei
Go elsewhere the censors say.

Twelve days past the first of May,
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