Towering realm of sublime commerce and life.

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High,

Towers,

Towering,

Commerce abounds,

Hong Kong; promise of riches your promise.

 

Founded on opium trading and tears,

Colonial,

Jardine trade,

Boxer,

War.

 

Gone,

Those days,

Returned to,

Mother China,

Now healed – the blossoming heart of new.

 

Confident China, Modern China, fresh,

Is freedom there?

One system,

Two states,

Works?

 

Shop,

Every,

Thing you want,

New and the old,

Great Empire gone – strident new promise – now!

 

 

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Tetractys for Cities

Paris

London

Bangkok

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  • Ruby Hawk on Oct 19, 2009

    Very well put, Your poem reads well.

  • ken bultman on Oct 20, 2009

    Great piece. I hope it works well for Hong Kong.

  • Joe Dorish on Oct 20, 2009

    Nice ode to another beautiful city!

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