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misspalah's review
4.0
“Forty Hours
There's an edge to time:
Growing older,
One falls harder,
Feet riding emptiness.
Uncoiled, it whizzes past word and deed
Leaving slow movers for dead.
To take the single day's stuff,
Forty hours might just be enough.
- Forty Hours (Women without Men by Leong Liew Geok)
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A gorgeous work, no doubt. Her poems are like stories coming from personal experiences and reflections. You didn’t think you are reading a poetry until you finished it. It is engaging and what she penned has souls in it if that makes sense to you. There are some that I will have to go back and decipher for a better comprehension. My only issue is - it can be boring since it stuck to a certain theme and if reader didn’t find it interesting, one might tend to skip it for good. In the book itself there’s a chapter that dedicated for ‘Hardware’ which to be frank, i was surprised by it. I do wish ‘Women without men’ was longer. Most of my favourite poems is from that section. There’s a whole chapter for ‘Singlish’ which i think Singaporeans will appreciate it more than me but at least i can enjoy some of the similarities with ‘Manglish’ after all we are not that a whole world different. Overall, it was a little bit of a mixed bag when it reached at the end of the book but i will still recommend it if you love poetry. My favorites are:
1. My Body tells me i am old
2. Women without men
3. Closet Poem
4. Why every story has a moral
5. Scar
6. The Wake
7. Gone
8. Forty hours
9. Forever Singlish
10. A wet market in Singapore
There's an edge to time:
Growing older,
One falls harder,
Feet riding emptiness.
Uncoiled, it whizzes past word and deed
Leaving slow movers for dead.
To take the single day's stuff,
Forty hours might just be enough.
- Forty Hours (Women without Men by Leong Liew Geok)
.
.
A gorgeous work, no doubt. Her poems are like stories coming from personal experiences and reflections. You didn’t think you are reading a poetry until you finished it. It is engaging and what she penned has souls in it if that makes sense to you. There are some that I will have to go back and decipher for a better comprehension. My only issue is - it can be boring since it stuck to a certain theme and if reader didn’t find it interesting, one might tend to skip it for good. In the book itself there’s a chapter that dedicated for ‘Hardware’ which to be frank, i was surprised by it. I do wish ‘Women without men’ was longer. Most of my favourite poems is from that section. There’s a whole chapter for ‘Singlish’ which i think Singaporeans will appreciate it more than me but at least i can enjoy some of the similarities with ‘Manglish’ after all we are not that a whole world different. Overall, it was a little bit of a mixed bag when it reached at the end of the book but i will still recommend it if you love poetry. My favorites are:
1. My Body tells me i am old
2. Women without men
3. Closet Poem
4. Why every story has a moral
5. Scar
6. The Wake
7. Gone
8. Forty hours
9. Forever Singlish
10. A wet market in Singapore
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