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The Moon’s Limbo by Pamela Seong Koon

 

after Decision To Leave (2022, dir. Park Chan-wook)

To say goodnight is to hope for the sun tomorrow.
If the sun is a new horizon, the moon is a pendulum sweeping across the shore.
A tide can only form before crumbling against precipice.
I search for you and your eyes reflect the pull of water.
We watch the fullness of breath and its distance after dissipating.
You push the dark from your face, tucking it behind an ear.
If the wise love the sea, and the virtuous, mountains;
lovers know to jar the moonlight and wait.
To say goodnight is to depart in opposite directions.

— Published in Dead Poets’ Society | poetry.sg (2023)

Pamela Seong Koon enjoys many hobbies, including lifting and video games. Her work has been published in both online and print anthologies.

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Poems on the MRT is an initiative by the National Arts Council, in partnership with SMRT and Stellar Ace. Produced by Sing Lit Station, a local literary non-profit organisation, this collaboration displays excerpts of Singapore poetry throughout SMRT’s train network, integrating local literature into the daily experience of commuters. Look out for poems in English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil in trains on the East-West, North-South and Circle Lines, as well as videos created by local artists and featuring local poets in stations and on trains. The Chinese, Malay, and Tamil poems are available in both the original languages and English. To enjoy the full poems, commuters may read them on go.gov.sg/potm.

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