Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 150

Battle of Shanghai
Chinese International School Hangzhou, Lim, Cindy - 14
Smoke uncurls by the sun
and spreads her pungent fingers over its
glowing cheeks
artfully hiding away from the heavens
the hell that burns below.
Death flutters through the street of Nanjing
a lone blossom cradled by wing of gloom
locking lips with soulless cold
leaving behind sunken flesh
to rot on its fragile bough.
Red are the shores
that fringes the bold waters of yangtze
Like a sweet sweet wolf-berry
harvested in late autumn,
dark madonna of the dying land.
The chilled bodies
give birth
to soil richer than summer’s crown,
and from butchered will and slaughtered soul
a tree with tongues grows.