Celebratory or serious, award-winning Singapore poets can offer the best words.
Poetry is a good source when you are at a loss for words, and award-winning Singapore poets can offer the best stanzas.Singaporeans are not an expressive people. Who has not been at a loss for words – on a birthday or at a funeral, consoling a friend or making a speech – when an apt phrase matters most?
Whether you are looking for a clever line peppered with local humour or a heartfelt verse, here are 15 stanzas of Singapore poetry to quote for all of life’s occasions.Forget Shakespeare. Joshua Ip’s sonnet is condensed to 14 lines of pragmatism that compares the Singaporean courtship ritual to reserving a seat at a crowded hawker centre.
Everyone craves a good emotional release from a heartbreak ballad track, and poetry can hit as hard. Why stop at telling your bestie that you and your “soulmate” have broken up? Tell them that the two of you “have slid glacially to the end of our course”.Any parent knows the indescribable joy of watching their sleeping child. Cultural Medallion recipient Lee Tzu Pheng, in simple language, puts this joy into words.
The late Arthur Yap, who was awarded the Cultural Medallion for Literature in 1983, is one of Singapore’s most beloved poets. PHOTO: ST FILE
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