A Memoir of a Poet

Pensively composed by Denis Toh (Date: 20th June 2005, Time: 10.21pm)

Deep in the night, right by the fireside

As you rest comfortably on my chest

Tenderly I stroke your hair

And smell the very scent of you.

I drink your wine and you taste mine

Your emotion swirls wildly

When I draw you closer and closer

Till your luscious lips meet mine.

Your heart leaps with thrill

When my kiss slips into your soul.

Into my embrace you fall,

Both our eyes meet and I see through

The windows of your naked soul.

I smile and say to her,

You’re so into it, my love

Because you tell me a secret that

You’ve not told a soul.

You feel so nervous yet comfortable

As I explore your image of love

And you search my vision of love.

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 20^th June 2005, Time: 2.24am)

I walk with God from this day on.

His helping hand I lean upon

I hold His hand and let go never

I talk with God and He understands

He listens to my prayer as I implore.

My dear God, this is my prayer,

My humble plea

May the Lord be ever with me.

In You, My Lord and God, I believe

There is no death but only salvation

There is no fear but courage and strength.

There is no forlorn but Your mercy and love.

I lean on Him forever

And He forsakes me never

He’ll not fail me

As long as my faith is strong in Him

Whatever road I may walk alone.

He guides me from this day on

And I never walk alone

While I walk with God.

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 17th June 2005, Time: 10.46pm)

Tonight I’m going to hold you tight

Touch and caress you tenderly.

Gently lay you down as I kiss you

And taste you all the way down

While you elate to seventh heaven.

As you close your eyes

Every part of you is explored.

When I’m inside of you

The echoes of our souls meet together.

I rest beside you and stroke your silky hair,

Drawing you closer and

Whisper gently at your ears, "I love you."

You ask me to hold you again

I promise not to let you go until you tell me to

Till all night long, yes, I promise you.

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Composed by Denis Toh (Date: 11th June 2005, Time: 4.42pm)

In the velvet sky

Rested the silver moon

In fair and pallid

Moonlight shines from the heaven

Over the water tenderly

Gazing affectionately at the human dwelling

Oh silver moom please stay with me

Tell me where my love is

The maiden with flaxen hair

For I yearn to see her

Under your pale moonlight.

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By Denis Toh (Date: 2^nd June 2005, Time: 2.05pm)

This is the end of me.

The wind, crying and lamenting,

Devastates my well-being

Not my strength and heart only

But all my mind and spirit together

With the whole ceaseless distance

Like the hulls of seafaring ships

Riding at anchor in a bay.

This is the end of me.

The wind shudders me,

Not out of tomfoolery and mischief

Also not in aimless fury,

But to find for you

Out of its angst

The words of a lullaby

Reconcile serenely with you.

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Written by Denis Toh (Date: Tuesday, 10^th May 2005).

When the new season comes,

And the cold weather has gone.

You and I, hand in hand

Gather lilies in the woods.

Shaking free beneath our feet in the dewdrops,

Tasting the sweetness of beads of moisture,

The larks ascending and sing with great joy.

Spring has come, my beautiful one

It is the month of Valentine that lovers bless,

Oh, come then, to this mossy river bank

To discourse of our sweet romance

And renew the vows we love.

Then, entwining our fingers basket-like,

Secret garden we will go

Bringing our content and happiness.

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By Denis Toh (Date: 31^st May 2005, Time: 1.57pm)

Lady of the lake

Oh sweet thou art

Perpetually virgin and chaste

Blessed art thou the beauty of most pure

Thou, crowned as the most magnificent.

Blessed art thou,

Who brings asylum from heaven

Into the midst of our rough earthliness;

Thy blossoms of heart,

Ever sweet-scented and fragrant

As thou glideth gracefully towards

Thy secret yet sacred site

Where thou and I

Vow our sweetest love

No kingdom could have crowned I

With more joy than thee by my side.

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Written by Denis Toh (Date: 6^th July 2004, Time: 4pm)

Oh my sweetheart, my love,

Was it a dream? A wonderful dream

That I was your heart’s only true love?

I remember it as a song gone quiet,

Like a distant echo in my heart.

Oh my sweetheart, my love,

I remember a rose you threw,

A glance so shy, yet tender;

I remember tears flow as we parted.

Was it all? Was it all a dream?

Oh my sweetheart, my love,

Our dream as brief as mellow

In spring time in green meadow,

Whose beauty soon withers away

Before the eyes of the rainbow.

Oh my darling, my cherished damsel,

But many nights I hear near yet distant voices

Through the flood of my bitter tears;

Hide this memory deep in your soul

It was your best dream!

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Written by Denis Toh (Date: Wed 9^th March 2005, Time: 1.51am)

Evening draws closer as the sun has vanished

And the moon streams with silver rays

Therefore my days are numbered

My life withers in fairest hours

Soon the beauty of my life will disappear

And the curtain will roll down silently

For my play is finally over

I take my final bow and weep quietly

Shadows and darkness slowly devour me

As I plunge deeper in my slumber

I taste the sweetness of my love’s tear

For this is the end of my life’s pilgrimage

My beloved bestows her tear on me

And pluck me a violet for my grave

With her soulful gaze

She looks gently down on me

Shed a tear for me, my love

For each drop of your tears

Will be in my diadem

Ah, those lucid pearls.

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Written by Denis Toh (Date: 9-1-2004, Time: 5.30pm）

If you love for beauty’s sake, do not love me,

Love the sun which is adorned with hairs of gold!

If you love for youth’s sake, do not love me,

Love the spring which is young every year!

If you love for treasure’s sake, do not love me,

Love the mermaid who owns many lucid pearls!

If you love for love’s sake, yes, then love me,

Love me always, as I love you always forever!

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