A Memoir of a Poet

Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 19th January 2005, Time: 9.53pm)

Our love is on the path to nowhere;
All my life I’ve thought our love would last.
Alas, how gravely wrong I am
For every path hides a corner our eyes can’t see.
I’ve had a vision that I walk by your side
As you wrap your arm around mine,
And hold me tight… never let me go
But now you’re torn apart between me and fate,
For your path in life leads us drited apart.
We’ve our love and destiny all right in our hands
Yet you’ve chosen to abandon everything.
We’ve it all just you and me
But the doorway to your heart is forever locked.
Maybe I’m young and naive in the ways of love
Or maybe I’m desperate for reasons to believe
That our love will never fall.
You yield yourself completely,
Leave me hanging by your thread.
Now all alone by myself
But the path that we’ve journeyed together
Will not be forgotten from my memory
And one day will lead me again to the door of your heart.

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 18th January 2006, Time: 6.05pm)

"Perhaps we just be friends… no more or less," you say;
This is as I’ve reckoned from your lips.
I’ve been wondering frequently of late
But our beginnings never know our ends!
Yet why you choose this road,
Which leads me to nowhere but despair.
My self-possession gutters and now I’m in the dark
For you ignore my feelings for you
And close your heart to prevent me from loving you.
You say "Leave it to fate…"
I myself can hardly understand…
Not knowing it’s whether too tardy or too soon,
Or if I undestand, is it wise or foolish to wait for you?
And now should I have the right to smile?

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 20th August 2005, Time: 9.06pm)

Staring at the watch - bleeping!

It’s twelve o’clock.

I walk along the street

With all the old nocturnal smell

In a tiny moment of the night

When the moon illuminates gently on the street.

The street-lamps warmly glow the ashen light

As I pass by - unsettling and troubling!

Winds lamenting melancholy

Haunting every corner of the street

And drown me so pathetically!

Hesitated, pace increases rapidly -

Scurry towards the town square.

There a nightingale sings a silver song

Which sweeps me into tranquility

And tells me never fear

For she is always forever near,

Accompanying me till the kiss of dawn.

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 29th July 2005, Time: 10.01pm)

Note: Just for plain fun

Mountain peaks breathe echoes of melody

Over upland it bears with sweet memory.

Flickering birdsong resonates with heath air

A bank of verdant moorland rises to distant ridge

Lush yet anciet tree entrenches near the edge

There a weather-beaten owl finds his lair.

Disguised he takes wing through swelling heather

To determine the nature weather.

For him, it’s fresh natural news

Like morning’s moisture beads and dews.

Until he has spread the news to animal kingdom

Or else he’s bored to tears in boredom.

Then he soars towards clear blue skies

No more in disguise.

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 19th July 2005, Time: 12.39am)

Dedicated to my Immortal Beloved

On a desolate morning shore

I write her name on the sand

But it’s wiped away by whims of waves.

A withered wind whispers to me to relinquish.

Yet I ignore it and write her name once more.

In vain, the tides come and wash it away.

My endeavor dissolves in heartless sea

And the amused sun derides for my foolishness.

Still unwearingly I write her name again

Not on the sand but a parchment.

I place it into a bottle and fling it to open sea.

The bottle floats and shines in sunlight,

Slowly drifting towards sunset.

Silently I watch it courses and disappears from my sight.

Stranded in a distant land - far away from her

Maybe in distance but not in heart

For the message in the bottle

Sealed with my nostalgia and kiss

Tells her how much I love and miss her.

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 9th July 2005, Time: 1.22pm)

Inspired by Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony in D

Dedicated to the victims of 7/8 tragedy

Life worth living as hope soars high.

Assurance sowed, promises future is nigh.

Let’s give life wings to fly

So heaven will not pass us by.

Hand in hand, celebrate life in pleasure!

Be merry! Ignore pain and disregard failure.

Let them be forgotten

Let them be rotten!

Dwell not in past,

Leave it to dust!

So come on now, unload your trouble

Don’t let them double!

So take my hand as we move

Onward to the future we love -

No more tears, sorrow and be gone with tease

Where everyone be at peace with peace!

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 7th July 2005, Time: 2.42am)

Inspired by Sergey Rachmaninoff’s ‘Vocalise’

Your voice, ever sweet and mellow

Breaks the chains hold me in hollow.

My heart opens at your voice

Like the roses blossom in poise

At the kiss of the dawn.

Like a zephyr your voice is

My heart reminiscent of the ears of corn

Ripple under your light breeze.

Even valley, grove, hill and field

Wood and mountain yield

When your voice elates to my bliss!

For your voice I thrive

Faithfully forever to prove

My undying and everlasting love!

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 6th July 2005, Time: 12.12am)

Inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony in E minor

Tha larks preen their wings

Chirping with cheerful songs.

Cuckoos sing verses

From the rim of their nests.

Soon turtle doves and finches join them in song!

The brooks at the breathe of zephyrs

Stream softly with sweet melodies.

Pleasant flowers blossom by the brooks,

And green leaves and branches rustle

In the trees as the genle breeze blows.

Gaily, shepherds and goatherds play bagpipes

As satyrs and nymphs dance to the rustic and merry music

Pixies and fairies waltz on the flower-strewn meadow.

Together they sing and dance beneath

The fair spring sky in all its glory,

Welcoming the first spring of love!

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Pensively composed by Denis Toh (Date: 30th June 2005, Time: 5.37pm)

She awoke startled

Found herself unprotected

Against the velvet wind on dark horizon

Intimidated, she crawled with her reflection

Horror scampered through her vein

When thunder tore the sky apart in the rain

And lightning swallowed the stars!

Breathlessly she lamented in discordant air,

Quietly on the shore, alas, she wept

As the sky turned grey and swept

Her teardrops to salt sea.

From afar, I tasted her salty tears

Her crying echoes at my ears!

I collasped and, under the night of stars,

I shed my tears for her…

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Pensively composed by Denis Toh (Date: 28th June 2005, Time: 7.42pm)

Slow whirlwind, silent thunderstorm

Breezeless tempest and unforgiving wave

I failed to save what I should have!

The rains came and came

And extinguished my livid flame.

As I looked beyond the horizon at the ocean rock

A stream of tears flowed in shock.

On desolate hazy morning shore,

Weeping , I stood amidst the roar

Of a self-tormented seashore.

From afar, I heard her sweet voice of melody

Alas, it was nothing but memory.

My hope to be with you had flown away

In a night and in a day,

In a vision or in none,

Therefore it was forever gone!

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