VI - Ryner Lai

Tenuously tethered leaves,
Feed the thirsty soil.

Insomnia - Farhan Ejat

I remember one day someone I’ve met
Told me a story hard to forget
Asked me how well do I sleep at night
And if it’s true that bed bugs bite?

Splashes of Light - Mahmud Yussop

It is in times of darkness
That the brightest splashes of light are seen
Just as the dreamer is awakened
He sees the brilliance of day

Let him be - Hazeem Hazmi

The boy that walks alone from school
You see him not knowing how he feels
He sits there empty away all that is real
You don’t know anything

The world is an open sea and you’re my anchor - Farhan Ejat

The world is an open sea and you’re my anchor
 

Time of hardship and despair
You’re my savior
 

Actions - Divya Rainjana Suraindiran

These socks won’t warm you,

and neither will that sweater;

Your sorrow won’t calm you,

and you won’t feel any better.

Dear Lord - Azim Razak

Dear Lord

Why is it that those closer to you than me

They who pray five times a day

Every day, without fail

Flaw - Nadd Mahmud

I can’t promise that

I would always be there

each time you need me.

A blind man - Ikmal Idham

A blind man stood static

Every direction to him was the same

Uncertain, unknown

Black

Moles - Sheena Baharudin

By the time I was ten years old

a number of moles have already made

my body and my face, their home.

New Year - Hanna Anuar

I danced away my first few hours

of this new decade

Meet - Ryner Lai

Meet me by the river

When the sun sinks into the rising blue

When fatigue lines the faces of men

And the scent of home flickers to life

Purple - Chloe Ling

Wake before the dawn

and you will witness the

World's slowest embrace

Rain Rain Go Away - Farhan Ejat

Rain rain go away

Come again another day

Come in June or come in May

But please don’t come, not today

the singapore i love - john tiong chunghoo

the Singapore i love is 

when the city holds up

its clouds, playing pom 

pom girls postponing

a drizzle so that the trees 

in the lanes and streets

- with their intermittent 

swinging branches and 

leaves - could hum songs 

jericho - Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

J is for Jericho because walls exist

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J is for Jericho because it has an incredible history.

J is also for John Wilkinson.

Let us Paint, World - AminTheRanter

What I am is a body of water,

I am fluid; always moving matter,

Eroding the earth I change the world

even if only the heart of a girl

The Weeping Lady of Kinshasa - Don Too Heng Onn

Have You By Chance Spied From Far
The Weeping Lady of Kinshasa
Each Time I Pass Her By
The Inside of Me Cry

Phobia - Abigail Lim

The tears I shed tonight
Are not ones of sadness
It’s a stunning realisation
Of what I fear most
That one day you’ll betray me

Country Peace - Mahmud Yussop

The rustling leaves
bring that wondrous feeling
the town people miss
called country peace.