Chinese New Year <br />the cops turn a deaf ear <br />to the fire crackers <br /> <br />Chinese New Year <br />home for those intense dizzying <br />auspicious fire crackers <br /> <br />Chinese New Eve <br />the sky a scene of US <br />invasion of Baghdad <br /> <br />Chinese New Year <br />firecrackers blast away old year <br />lighting up the new <br /> <br />Chinese New Year <br />the first black american president <br />born in the year of Ox became <br />president in the year <br />of the Ox <br />a time all America needs is <br />a man with the strength of <br />an ox to straighten all its fields <br /> <br />It has been years I never came back to hometown in Sibu, Sarawak for Chinese New Year spending them mostly in Kuala Lumpur where firecrackers are strictly banned. <br />Here in Sibu they are also banned but on New Year Eve, the police just turn a deaf ear to them. Afterall, Chinese New Year without the sounds of the crackers is no new year. <br />The sounds of the crackers lasted for a full hour with a wide range <br />of crackers that lighted up the sky. <br />It was almost like what I saw on television of the US's invasion of <br />Baghdad years back. The only difference is our crackers were for celebration of the most important Chinese festival.<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/visit-malaysia-year-haiku-chinese-new-year-eve-in-sibu-state-of-sarawak/
