Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2019 | Page 98

Zheng He’s Fleet
Shanghai Singapore International School, Panda, Anouska - 13
The ocean glittered under the beaming sunlight,
Shimmering like sapphires with specks of gold on blue,
The warm breeze caresses our faces, as gentle as it was,
Roaring waves crash down upon the golden shores,
Indomitable but unruffled in its own ways,
Elegant sea birds soar across the horizon,
Their wings spread out in freedom of the day,
As they beam in proudness upon us,
They are witnesses of a magical beginning in history,
We shall be remembered as the voyagers of today.
I, Ming, look below through the ocean waters,
Within the wink of an eye, I could see,
The most picturesque of the fishes,
The most flawlessly carved corals,
The lushest of the seaweeds,
And the most idealistic pink-sunset above it.
Zheng He, the hero of them all,
Speaks for all of us as one,
To dream beyond the deepest oceans,
And for them to glide over the highest clouds,
The sights we visit in our 7 voyages,
Are the ones we lock with us, forever.
We’re not like other pirates,
We’re Zheng He’s fleet,
We aren’t the ones to plunder ships and wealth,
We’re the ones who want to explore the big world out there,
We’re the ones who want to understand this domain that we live in,
We’re the ones who want to give gifts to all those who have us,
And we’re the ones to explore this realm of goodness today.
As Zheng He leads us through the warmest of the waters,
He shows us islands of many shapes and sizes,
Slowly as the days pass by like petals falling of a dandelion,
I realize we’ve seen islands that do wonders in this world,
From our hearty China we’ve come to Incredible India,
We been through the raging waves of the Arabian Sea,
To the east coast of earthy Africa,
We’ve been to the imperfect America,
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much beauty in nature in my life.
As Zheng He leads us through the waters,
We do face some hardcore battles with the bloodshed of my friends,
But in the end; we’re with one another,
We’re strong, undefeatable and we’re united in every way possible.
We’re Zheng He’s Fleet and … we’re unstoppable