I Will Give You Life

I've had just enough time to...   give life to...

Taken on the road north of Hanoi...

A block of marble

Cold and rigid

Shapeless, sterile

Elicit no emotion

Dead

Chiseled and hammered

Ground and polished

Brought to life

By imagination

And memory

If a block of stone

Can be given life

Imagine what…

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J.R. Richards – I Will Give You Life

And take all my love and hate

For I will give you life

Dragons & Pheonix and Creatures Mystical

I've had just enough time to...   see dragons and pheonix and creatures mystical...

 Taken of the temple against the rainbow building in the center of Kuching

Dragons and pheonix

And creatures mystical

Exist in this age and time

In our imagination only

They said

But I saw them dances

On rooftops and by moonlights

In the eyes of the child

And the tales of old men

Who has not forgotten to dream

Dragons and phoenix

And fairies and elves

Frolic in the twilight hour

Together with the unicorn

In Never Never Land

In Praise of Shadows.

I've had just enough time to...   sing the praise of shadows.

Taken in my favourite hotel in the historic city of Malacca, Malaysia

If you understand shadows

You will appreciate its silence

Its floating softness

Its fleeting forms

That tells a richer story

Than sharp edges

If you appreciates shadows

You will wait with patience

For it to reveal

The nature of its dances

That takes you dancing along

Through their illumination

The object is true

The shadow is not

If you believe that

You live a world only of light

And have no reason

To praise the nature of shadows