Personal Thoughts | Terese Against Trash

the forest next to me

That was it. She pronounced precisely, perfectly, what I had failed to for eighteen years. With that single word she captured its raw beauty. That I had never fully appreciated nor ever will.

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the twentieth anniversary of Semakau

that acclaimed offshore landfill of Singapore

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other nature writing

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asian school of the environment

down the stairs of northspine foodcourt, turn right

uni life

year one sem two

You Are Not A Number

wrote this villanelle after... feeling overwhelmed by too many tragedies

taking place in the world today.

the coronavirus pandemic

the bombing in Afghanistan

the bombing in Gaza

the bombing in Yemen

the social unrest in Colombia

the horrors in Xinjiang

the...

i hope you find peace in this poem,

and know that you are never alone,

and that peace to you will one day be shown.

if not now, it will in a future moment.

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Sonnet to the Sun

I went to the park near my house, sat down on the concrete, in the sun :") It was the usual sights: collared kingfishers, javan mynahs, a soaring white-bellied sea eagle flying overhead. Also spotted a few spear-shaped and bifoliate leaves!

I browsed through multiple poems about the sun but none of them accurately captured the delight I had, so I decided to try write my own :D

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Do you feel free?

thoughts by the Bedok Reservoir ~

mix of La'Tuin and rhyming couplets poetic forms :-)

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mirror maze @jewel, Changi airport

how many hundreds of mirrors were used in the construction of this maze, how much silica from sand was used, which Southeast Asian country did that sand come from, which ecosystem has been sacrificed. For this meaningless entertainment in the rich world.

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