Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2020complete | Page 133

Through this window, this lens of departure
The engine neighs and my journey gallops
The jet smoke trailing over the Silk Road
When I landed the air smelled of blossoms
From the orchids hatching the urban dream
In their seeds watered by laborious rain
Their pistils kissed by an eccentric pollen
The sun flares like a spinning bauhinia
Twirling its light over the monoliths,
Dressed, refined in prismatic colours
Like gentlemen watching over the sea
The Great Bay is a hearth of consciousness
Awakened by the call of innovation,
Oracle that sings the song of beauty
And birth, cradling the people
For progress.
Future Adventures of the Greater Bay Area
HKUGA College, Wong, Yeung Yi - 17
Eyes on our futuristic China,
Crossing the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.
Arriving at the Greater Bay Area,
With an ice cold Tsing Tao straight from the fridge.
Economic activities arising everywhere,
Automation and artificial intelligence.
Environmental protection right here,
As well as technological and cultural divergence.
But there is something you need to be aware of,
Freedom of speech and press are monitored.
With political consequences to bear,
One misstep, you’ll be arrested.
If you just aim for living standards,
Perhaps it’s a good place to stay.
Unless you don’t mind living in a political desert,
Keep this dystopia at bay.
Paper Planes
International College Hong Kong, Ho, Clarissa - 16
China’s sun
Exhaled a
Breath
Of light.