Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 124

A Day in Old Shanghai
St. Margaret's Co-Educational English Secondary and Primary School
(Secondary Section), Sung, Joyce - 13
Trams and rickshaws across the road,
Traffic then had never flowed.
Temples and towers built so high,
This was the world of Old Shanghai.
Jewels and gold were traded in,
For food and money for their kin.
They worked all day you mustn't deny,
These were cultures of Old Shanghai.
Patterns were on all women's clothes
which let their inner elegance glow.
Most men wore suits to satisfy
The fashion of Old Shanghai.
This was a day in Old Shanghai.