(Couplet-style poem)
Comments about this post on ABC Open 500 words – First memory.
Words danced in my head,
Words longed to be spread.
Words flowed on the page,
Words streamed on the stage.
Words induced me to choose them,
Words jostled for space in my poem.
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by playerx.
They were the faithful, the miserable, the immoral, the beautiful,…. I couldn’t forget my encounter with that poor and forlorn woman.
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I helped Mum preparing food for the quarterly visit to Dad’s communist prison (glossily named re-education camp) .
Six dozens boiled egg yolks were mashed and dried on an electric stove. Two sliced sandwich loaves were toasted and spread with butter mixed with sugar. But wait there’s more!
(Couplet-style poem)
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Tears in the night,
Flow for the plight,
Of the wives left to wait,
Lonely, contrite, dying, self-hate.
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by Smabs Sputzer.
(Couplet-style poem)
<<Story related to this poem>>
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I cringe at recalling the very story!
All I wanted was friends to feel less lonely.
I was made an innocent criminal,
Yet my email then made my words equivocal.
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by Miss Blackflag.
(Couplet-style poem)
Comments about this post on ABC Open 500 words – One moment, this year.
The defector returns to her country,
She hears the cry, the moan of history.
She learns the wealthy communist devils
Want to migrate and mixed with other peoples.
The communist elites deem Vietnam fearsome:
“Polluted air, unsafe food and poor health system”.
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by Women in the Black.
A refugee's journey - Vietnam to Australia 
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