Reconciliation

Posted by Audrey Chin on December 31, 2011 · 5 Comments 

It’s the end of the old year. A time to throw away old grudges and forgotten grievances, a time to make room for what will come in the new year.  A time for reconciliation in the spirit of Nelson Mandela’s Rainbow Nation …

Reconciliation
Our bruises

Photocredit: addhika.blogspot.com

Red and purple
Black and brown
Forgotten

Forgiven
Forgiving
We run through green paddy

Our cheeks meet
Rosy pink

Under watchful clusters of dragon eyes
Our fire crackles
Orange and gold

Filed under POSTS, Uncategorized · Tagged with , , , , , , , , , ,

Comments
5 Responses to “Reconciliation”
  1. Mamie says:
    December 31, 2011 at 9:39 am

    What’s dragon eyes?

    Reply
  2. oddznns says:
    December 31, 2011 at 9:42 am

    Dragon’s eyes are the literal translastion of the Cantonese name for the Longan fruit (Long= dragon, An= eyes).

    Reply
  3. Joe Bunting says:
    January 2, 2012 at 2:58 am

    Beautiful. Clear, accessible, and yet you take us somewhere surprising.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: