facing the sea

By opel17

Gurney Drive overlooking sea

The ripples on the sea

Spreading its circles hitting the muddy soil

The lashes touching the wall

The glimpse of the night

Listening to its call

The whispering echo

“Ah you are back!

For many years out of the scene”

The eyes look into the dim light sea

Nature hasn't changed her colors

The twists and turns of her ripples

Calmly returning to her senses

Absently the stroking fingers

On the wall of concrete lingers

The beauty of nature capture the mind

There lies the footprints in memory

Facing the sea

Walking slowly living the moments

When will be the time of return?

It's hard to say leaving the scene

care free night at gurney drive

By evil_cretin

night view@ gurney drive

The muddy soil

The concrete stones

Of wall of concrete

The dirty water flowing

Out into the sea

The eyes glimpse only to forget

The dark cracks for the cockroaches

Other night insects to explore

The muddy soil

The concrete slab thrown into it

An eye sore walking on the pavement

Who really cares being there for so long?

The possessive lovers

Dangling legs leaving the slippers

They know nobody will steal it

As they stare into the dark sea

The artist sits on his canvas stool

With battery operated lights

He is driving his business

Self portraits within 20 minutes

The graceful strokes of his pencil

The outline takes shape so quickly

A crowd gathered to watch his artistic skill

The shape of portraits emerge on art paper

The street of cars and motorbikes

Lining up to parade on the road

The parking attendants busy issuing tickets

A good business at night

The young bicycle Rempits

Weaving in and out of traffic jams

They don't feel fear in their strikes

They seem to rule the road on their bicycles

The day passes at Gurney Drive

The echoes of the past lingering in the mind

Years ago walking freely on the pavement

Every stop hawker stalls greeted the eyes

the island the beats of life

By capney

Sunset over Penang Island

The Island of Penang

The Queen Bee pearly smile

The beach, the complexes and entertainment

Food and drinks many to salivate in the mind

The mainland the foot soldiers

The back lane of the Queen Bee

When the Queen Bee whispers

They run to get her honey

It's the class divide

The value of attachment

On the island the beats of life

On the mainland the night of solitude

The island of jamming vehicles

Even for hours during festive seasons

The human nature need sadistic tendency

Hoping to smell the air of Queen Bee hiccup

The locals on both side

The perception of superiority

The perception of the crown and steps

Here lies the class divide

queensbay mall

by myuptownboy@photobucket.com

Queensbay Mall

Missed the turn

Drove right through

Went to the roundabout

There wasn't a traffic jam

Thinking that it could

This time took the right turn

Parking spaces a question

Parked at Eastin Hotel

Walked under the hot sun

A short distance to Queensbay Mall

Looked at the sea

Apartments blocks

And expensive homes

In Penang Island this is it

The scarcity of land

Inside the Mall

The cool air flowing

For a change

At least didn't have to sweat

At this time

There weren't many crowd

On a Saturday afternoon

Walking into it

the gloves and the rings

By connor_5612

BW - Boxing Ring

The political punching bags

On the swing each try to outwit each other

The gloves and the rings

They play the game

They want the membership list

How many members they can recruit?

When the day to day affairs needing fine tuning

No wonder the little napoleons have a good time

The many tea breaks away from stations

All kinds of meeting for the officers

The welfare of the people and country

Too many directions to serve the common people

Public funding wastage

The leakages run into billions

The political leaders have no time

They just want to prop themselves upwards

You think they go down to the fields

They wait for reports from advisers

The long winding road to get it done

In the end the people suffer

You think they learn?

They will forget after a while

They will try to increase members

They look good when they talk

the tariff rate jumped

Now the people know

Are they still swallowing the honey coated promises?

Voting for Bee Anne

The people have to suffer

Sarawakians what say you now?

You gave the mandate to get whacked

You don't learn your lessons

We hope the mainland will learn it well

The tariff rate jumped by 7%

Most households and companies will pay

The cost of goods will increase

And the take home pay will decrease

The different terms for different grants

It is the creative massaging accounts

It hooks the public without regret

Come next General Election will we learn at all?

The public pay

Proton and Perodua getting grants

IPP allegedly enjoying the billions

Do we still want Bee Anne?

We have to change

The way we look into our future

We can't let this happen to us

We must be bold to effect our rights

they frog don't they?

By bekkiglittz

Frog

The political greedy members

Frogging from pool to pool

They want to get the bite

Else they frog again

It's all about wealth

They go where the smell is

Once they feel they can't get it on

They leave the party join another

There they sing

The party can give them something

Once they were there they got nothing

Now they rejoined hope to get into the wagons

The political greedy members

They aren't there for the future and country

It is self gratification for themselves

Else they frog all over again!

like a tourist

By benjiethtan

Gurney Plaza

Plaza Gurney

Walked in to see

From the leisurely walking

Now the cool air-conditioned ambience

It was a reprieve from the hot sun

Window shopping at the many outlets

There weren't many shoppers around

Maybe it was on a weekday......

Spent hours windows browsing

Looking for inspiration on decorations

Ideas to keep in view for later renovations

Then popped in to the food court stalls

The economic rice stall

The price didn't eat into your pocket

Vegetables weren't overcooked

Serving was quick not on a weekend

As it is with all complexes

You see one you seem to see it all

You want to look for something different

It has to be somewhere else...

Popped in to Winter Tea Summer

Ordered drinks, latte and sandwiches

Admired the flowery cups and saucers

Captured some in camera..

Drove down to Penang Road

Popped to Chowrasta stalls

Walked under the shade of corridor

Walked in to the Pots

The Penang Road cendol stalls

Nothing has changed through the years

Ordered 2 bowls though the price increased

The last was $1.20 now $2.20 a bowl

The traffic jam

Got worst now then before

When I was living here

It was quite manageable

Now the island

For visits explore some

The different type of food and drinks

The old Penang she has gone

why the error in MyKad?

Mykad jumping queue

In the wallets or handbags

Feeling safe without using it

Once it is used the broken record

Is it anything new?

We heard of collapsed buildings

We heard of complaints on national cars

Yet have the ruling elites changed the rules?

A main newspapers reported

Over 1 million Mykad holders

They reported of faulty chips

Cards rejected when in used

Banks, Immigration, Road transport

EPF, Plus and among others.......

MyKad have failed its test

Not to mentioned the useless plastic..

Will it cost the public to pay?

When they go and renew it all over again?

We know we will have to foot the bill

For the faults of linked to political patronage

dont run without plan

The public relations work

The pro-newspapers flow

There lies the spin

Sometimes to feel good

The opposition members

Some rejoined to the former parties

Citing as usual poor leadership

Never taking care of members

Once they were

Under the ruling Bee Anne

What had they got instead?

They left now they returned

The leaders would say

The good feel factors

They forget what will happen

The trust has all gone

The country is moving

Beyond race base parties

These get rich get what they want

They will roll where there is gold

Though they should know

What glitters aren't gold

It is deception painting flow

The gold ashes just paint of snow

gurney food stalls

By daviz123

gurney night stalls

The Gurney Drive food stalls

It is still on the familiar spot

Though the arrangement had changed

Now it is organized

The stalls are divided..........

If you want to eat Malay food

Walk a short distance away

Carrying it on self service

The cost of food and drinks

It is at the same level

Where you eat out in KL city

So you don't expect any differences

The only drawback when it rains

The stalls will lose business for the day

The night will be warm and humid

When there is no breezy wind

Smell the aroma

Of the years back to the scene

There are more stalls around

My favorite stall had gone

The Gurney food stalls

Feel the night of food and drinks

Feel the memories of long ago...

One of the old places still hanging there

night at gurney drive

By fadhir83

Gurney Drive at night

The night at Gurney Drive

The low tide from the sea

The long queue of cars

Bumper to bumper rides

Every car parking space

By night fall there isn't any

Only park at hotels or side lanes

Else drive on out of Gurney Drive

The car parking attendants

Every hardworking to issue tickets

The collection of earning income

Maybe they get commission

On the pavement

The local tourists walk

The display of cheap toys and handicrafts

An artist drawing self portraits

The young lovers easily spotted

Sitting on the dim light concrete bench

With hand-phones between them

Where is the direct communication?

The age of modern lovers

It's the gadgets doing the talking

The world can move on

The lovers just let it flow

It isn't about lovers

It's more on food and drinks

And walking aimlessly

Let the time sing its melody

And the soft whisper of the waves

Touching the concrete walls

Now it is much cleaner

“You think we don't change?”

gurney drive

By Audreyaws

Walking along Gurney Drive

Gurney Drive

Along the pavement

Watching the crawling cars

Cruising stopping cruising along

The warm wind blowing

The ripples on the sea water

Low tide in the day

As the sun biting the road

Many cars parking

Early in the day

The rows of stalls and restaurants

The food and drinks aren't cheap

This is a tourist belt

The business people want to milk it high

In the morning the crowd in parts of the outlets

Starbucks and Coffee beans too

Gurney Plaza

The food court selling many types of food

Prices are quite reasonable

I am surprise to find out

It has been years

I am out of the scene

The years I lived there

I was quite out of place

Gurney Drive

High rise apartments and hotels

The landscape has totally changed

On the street

whose small dog?

Whose small dog?

The expensive one running away

Sniffing its way to the garbage tong

Barking as it runs along

The cars moving slowly

I see the little puppy runs

Ears raising high happily on the road

Whose small dog?

It runs along the car

The day of its freedom

The tail hanging high

The eyes of glory

Whose small dog?

On the loose on the road

Running along to the garbage tong

With freedom in its eyes

the shadows will be around

By Phoebe_LovesYou

Hole to The Darkness

The evening light

Glowing timidly in shadows

Within a short interval

The darkness spread its wings

The long and short shadows

The images of many forms

What hide in there?

It's hard to really know

The shadows move

Along the dim light too

Bigger becomes smaller

Until it all just barely visible

The hungry breezes touches

The swaying leaves some broken waving along

It holds the moment of falling grace

It's time to go; don't spin tales of sorrow

When mistakes have been done

Don't cry and try to think all over

Learn that in life make the next one better

The shadows will be around you can't hide

they are just the lazy dogs barking all day

By mortuarie

Barking Dog

The irritants in our lives

They want us to suffer without causes

They want us to feel the inferior complex

Be like them forever complaining

The irritants want us to believe

How life is hard on them

They have to work hard they say

They are just the lazy dogs barking all day

Working hard for their money

They will not go that far

They just want to take all of it

The hypocrites they surely are

The irritants in our lives

They come in any shapes and sizes

They just want to take it all

Nothing for the hardworking ones

We have seen so many

In politics and in every day life

Don't expect these parasites to learn

They will cry pushing them to work

scholarship and PSD

Scholarships and PSD

The trials of each applicant

At the mercy of the officers

Giving them scholarships

By merit on examination results

The string of distinctions held no attention

The officers will ignore directives

They give according to their own assessment

The political outcry

The little napoleons couldn't care less

They still dished out ignoring directives

The taxpayers monies wrongly funded

PSD never published the names

Of those successful applicants

Silence here isn't golden

There is no transparency

These little napoleons

They must be disciplined or sacked

Even the DG too must be held accountable

The DG shouldn't plead with excuses

There are many stories

Of the brainest applicants unsuccessful applications

Resulting in bad feeling and double standards

For years it had been dragging on...

Now it's time to come hard on these officers

They can't play the game as they used to do

Enough of tolerance now for change

Else ship them out clean the PSD

forget about dowry

By playboybeauty214

dowry

Dowry for a marriage

The old custom still rampant in India

The social modern 'slavery' for a price

A man to get married to a woman

The price must be sweet

For the man's family demanded it

The daughter in law's family must pay

Dowry for a marriage

The sad story never ends

In the remote parts of India

Women commit suicides

Force to or not lives lost

As a consequence the social stigma

Of married lives of the women

The dowry makes them weary

Living in the shadow of darkness

Forget about dowry

Let the lovers enjoy their lives together

If you think you can afford it

There is no compulsion

Now the court in India

Meted out punishment for the man's families

They have to serve jail terms and pay compensation

For the misery and pain

the political clown

By elisa_2892

The political clown

The political court jester

In the black knight's court

Everything can happen

When dark moon rising

The wind will hold still

Breathing will be a curse

For the dark night

The branding on the trees

The ownership taken by force

Every farmer has no legal rights

So the political clown boasts

The root of evil

It rears in the little mind

Brewing and creating illusions

The grandeur in its schemes

The political clown

The political court jester

Every knight in the black round table

They can't do a thing

So the story goes

The political clown has his way

The political master claps his hands

So he shall be!

the colors of unity

By ahmusic01 @ photobucket

The colors in the sky

You may think it is only white and blue

Sometimes cloudy intermittent white

Nature telling us to watch and learn

You can have different values

The perception always run the opposite

The allowance for knocking it off....

It is that choice in circle of the whole

Each of us diverting views

Amongst the circle we float in

On the whole the moving circle

We share the common destiny

The colors of unity

The way Nature showing us the way

If only we open our eyes and minds

It's there to clinch our destiny

they create colors in our minds

By drawline

They want us to be stupid

They give us the big words

Rationalization to ease the burden

The costs born by the people

Maybe we were stupid

Voting Bee Anne to run us down

Democracy for the people

It's only the elites strangling us

When they got our votes

They don't think about us

They create colors in our minds

We are busy trying to come out clever

It is our own folly

We always forget our history

For over 5 decades living

We forget the misery and pain

Now we shouldn't be gullible

We must vote for change

It's enough in the long nights

We shouldn't be pawns

the gullible people

By ThomasEWilliams

White Tissue Paper

The gullible people

They don't ever learn

They will feed us stories

The world we live

They will be the folders

Turning the pages of their lives

It isn't about uneducated people

It's the mind games we live

The gullible people

They will fall head over toes

They will never know

They will think of the grandeur

The first to reach the gate

While others seem to wait and see

Oh yeah the gullible people

They will see the emptiness over

The gullible people

The young and old will fall

It isn't about uneducated people

It's the mind games we live

the moments only God will know

By littlelobster

black and white sun set

God decide the time and day

For when God will change planet Earth

It had taken God 1 week to make

You think God will just throw it away?

Go read the scriptures

God had said what to do with Earth

And the people living in her bounty

Even Jesus didn't know the time and day

Here we hear of self appointed preachers

Proclaiming the Doomsday to collect money

People shouldn't fall for the con jobs

The wolves in sheep clothing remember?

The last prophet, Muhammad, came and gone

He left behind the Holy Book

Preaching the people to read and follow

Know and understand it...

The messages wrote in the Holy Books

Just read the scriptures feel the moments

You don't have to listen to other self styled preachers

They just want your money to live in luxuries

the political rats

The political rats

They whisper; they run; they hide

Away from the public cats

Ever watchful eyes searching for the cheats

In the dark shadow of pillars

The corridors give them shelter to plunder

The boxes of cheese in the locked storage rooms

They whisper, they run; they hide

The stage of opera shows

The actors and actresses flow

The drama unfolding of stories

Of Bukit Merah once with toxic waste

Now in Gebeng it crosses

The childish political prince rat thundered

He never reads history of the toxic waste

It will make the State in darkness

The political rats

They whisper; they run; they hide

Dig up the gold of golden cheese

Run to jet plane flying away

Leaving the marks

Of toxic waste for people living behind

They will suffer the agony of pain

Their lives will be forever changed!

one track road

By Lydzirose

one track mind

The politicians

They live in better homes

Those who made the list

In decades pursuing political lives

The cat and mouse games

Bringing up issues tweet to a race

The hollowness of the tunnel

It's only darkness

You think they care?

They want the gravy cauldron

Cool fresh vibrant beats

The glow the villagers only dream

The urban poor

The struggling villagers

They listen and hope

The politicians exploit

The good old politicians

They have all gone today

The gentlemen of that era

They only made history

Now we hear

The one track road

Where is Malaysia?

She is left far behind!

the cats game

The grey cat and the white kitten

Crawling slowly hiding under the car's chassis

Quietly without making any noise

The hot sun ray hitting the roof of the car

It is their tricks of their lives

Sneaking into the garden uprooting pearl grass

When the occupants aren't in the house

The cats will have a snoozing time

The gate doors open

The cats see it quickly run away

Across the street to another unoccupied house

Waiting for another opportunity

The cats know it isn't their home

They just want to make a mess out of it

Poo and urine and uprooting ground grass

The trade marks that they have sneaked in

you make your own success

When you fail

It doesn't mean the end

Even string of distinctions

It doesn't guarantee success

Life in the economic world

Every one has to make on its own

It's here the hard knocks

The bullies and lambs

You must transform into a lion

To earn the stripe of your journey

You have to fight harder

When you don't have a complete education

It doesn't mean you are a failure

It only means you have fight like a lion

You can dream all day long

Yet you must remember to roar

Let it be known you are around

Silence will bring you down to the darkest depth

So when you fail

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You mustn't run away!

age of not knowing

By hpluvezhorses2much

little kitten

The little kitten

On the center of the walk

Huddled alone closing its eyes

Born barely 2 weeks ago

It could be thrown there

In somebody's home or back lane

Maybe somebody sent it to the food stalls

Believing it could get some food to survive

It still needs feeding milk

The poor kitten will die within days

It can't feed by itself

Its life will be unkind and harsh

Maybe it was born

Amongst the boxes of the hawkers' stalls

Hiding underneath drains

Now sitting alone waiting

Life is hard

For animals and humans too

If you can't be responsible

Don't ever make one!

believe me give chance a start

By Malaysia-Today

Cost of living

Cost of living

We better be prepared

The bar will be raised

All the indications weaving through

The major cost cutting measures

The government forget to do

It is through the men on the street

They will face the brunt of rising costs

Now the disposal income

It erodes in your eyes

You will feel the pinch living everyday

You can curse and rant all day long

Do you sit down and think why?

You forget to act on change

The opportunity was there

You didn't take the plunge

You still have a second chance

Now you must prepare to take it down

You can't be wearing the same old brand

You have to change for a better living!

check the surrounding

Buried alive!

It isn't the way to die

Walk into a building

Check the surrounding

Take the efforts

A short walk feel the presence

It is always made a difference

The little concerned around you

Even in public buildings

Even checking into hotels

Check the premises

Walk the steps

No doubt you think

“What a waste of time!”

When there is a fire

Your mind will know where to run

You must remember

The panic triggers the mind shutdown

It is only the consciousness of knowing

You were there walking the steps!

So check the surrounding

Walk the extra steps to feel the new

The buildings, the hill slopes and valleys

You will make the difference for yourself

16 candles burning

16 candles burning

Lives got lost in a tragedy

The young lives before they could fly

They were snuffed out in landslides

Buried in mud of death

The day light turned into darkness

The air that we breathe for granted

They were slowly extinguished in their lives

16 candles burning

The lost souls buried in landslides

The sadness and tears never forgot

Of parents, relatives, friends and rescuers

Before the bodies are prayed

The authority said something else

The authority never wanted to take responsibility

Of lack of enforcement to ring in the culprits

16 candles burning

Too many incidents on landslides

Will the authority wake up?

Or it's just tomorrow they forget?

16 candles burning

Lives got lost in a tragedy

The sadness and tears never forgot

Tomorrow it is history

bite the bullet

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The old gentlemen politics

It has gone; it has gone

We can only recall their sacrifices

The rule of law; separation of powers

The divide and rule came

The race and religion came to play

The sacrifices of the golden ages

They came to naught today

The history of our times

We have lost touched of the olden years

We forgot to recognize harmony

On religion and living in diversity

The majority shouldn't forget

The others who make up the nation

It doesn't mean you have the absolute rights

History will tell you the story

The stage of our nation

She cries of our greed of power

It corrupts absolutely on the elites

They can't see beyond the golden colors

We can't go for transformation

We must go for the change

It has to be this way to steer our nation

Bite the bullet let change begin

the old rags must change

The tragedies of landslides

So many had died in man made disasters

Cutting corners forget the lines of Nature

Cutting down with bulldozers

Clearing lands exposing it to the harsh weather

The hot wind keep blowing along the barren land

The desire of profits forget to plant trees to sustain

The tragedies of landslides and sinkholes man made equation

Yesterday another landslide and human lives lost

Building near to hill slopes knowing the danger poses

The owners live and believe they are secured........

The danger they face they ignore

Now again we hear

We will see the building plans

The same old merry go round tactics

In a month back to old squares

We have to change the government

Too fat and lazy to walk around....

Giving instructions no follow ups

The little napoleons having a good time

One day in a week

Drive to sloppy hills to check

The engineers and other qualified personnel

Log on it take quick solutions...

But the old rags

Unwilling to sweat in the humid sun

They rather sit in office long tea breaks

Sometimes long meetings

We can't use the dirty rags

It has run its functions long ago

Now it's time to change

For the future of our nation

you make your own happiness

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You make your own happiness

In this world; in the world of your own

You decide where you want to go

The light and dark in your mind you take

You plot it in your dreams

You desire the journey

You make the arrangements

You learn through with life

When life fail you

You don't put a blame

You should pick it up

Walk tall try again

When you make your own happiness

You can follow somebody's successes

You should beware of pitfalls behind shadows

When life fail you, you don't put a blame

every one has dreams

By Sprchrgr

Every one has dreams

When they were young

When they grew up

The way they hope it will arrive

Along the way

The factors come into play

The young are free

The old facing every drilling

The family hardships

The family reluctant to help

The family wishes you try your own

Live through the mill so they say

Along the way love hit the road

You get clobbered in sweet coated words

When it is hot, you forget what you want

You dig in hoping it will never end

When setbacks hit the sack

You are drawn back feeling sad

Every dream you forget......

You cry for cupid the angels never smile

When job market squeezes in

You find hard to even dream about tomorrow

You have to be practical to salvage what you got

Knock out the skeletons start a new page

Every one has dreams

You shouldn't give up

Just let the candles burning

It is just a test of your faith

the stage in the mind

The stage in the mind

The collision of greed and wants

The shadow players of the war lord

They craft skills to manipulate

The letters machines

Back in the backroom

Punching keys of words

Carrying the evil play

A clown to get it going

The short legged bull dog

Barking for all to hear

“You think you can get away?”

The people pass by

Ignoring the incessantly barking

Some throw stones at the bull dog

“Like that you want to bark?”

The evil flowing into lives

The crafted spins meandering harmless

Until it gets hold of the inner circle

The red light shines on the dark hill

The stage in the mind

The little rats running and hiding

The cat watches with eyes weary

For they are just robotic animals

you still have a choice

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The sun, the moon

The stars and whispering wind

You hear it often; you see it too

In your mind you try to know

Beginning of life

There is Nature

The abundance of glow

Life in the Garden

Everything bloom

The eyes see it all

The mind rejoices

Until the temptation

One bite all it takes

The Garden suddenly disappears

On the ground the light and dark

You have a choice pick one

The wrong choices

The flow of a life

God send prophets

The words in the Holy Books

Again there is a choice

The temptation of history

It comes to play

Ever since that mistake!

As long as you do good

Earning credits to cross the line

Believe in what you think is right

You still have a choice pick one