Selected Poems (1973 - 2014)

By Mu Pi Chan

This volume contains poems chosen from eight of the twelve volumes of my poetry released between 1973 to early 2015. It is my intention to release a further selection of the three line poems from the other four volumes at a later date.

The selection of which poems should appear in this volume was made using the following simple rules:

(1)Was the poem written between 1973 and 2014.
(2)Does the poem have four or more lines.
(3)Can the poem be rendered without the use of tabs or other layout setting devices.
(4)Do i like the poem (i.e. Do i feel it is “Best of” material).

In compiling this selection i have followed the usual practice of putting together poems that originally appeared in the same volume, and placing them in the original order unless a different order was required to ease pagination issues. It should be noted that a number of minor corrections have been made, so the poems do not always appear in their original form.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mu Pi Chan
• Release date: Jan 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311097163

Mu Pi Chan

Mu Pi Chan was born in 1959 in a house that was then in the County of Essex, but which now lies within the London Borough of Havering. He was brought up from a very early age just outside Southend-on-Sea (Essex). He spent three years at the University of Kent at Canterbury (Kent), and has subsequently lived In St Albans (Hertfordshire), Guildford (Surrey), and Romsey (Hampshire).Mu Pi Chan has released a number of volumes of poetry (through Project Gutenberg) covering the period 1973 to 2019. Most of Mu Pi Chan's poetry is inspired by the world around him, particularly the natural world and the people of which he is fond. Other sources of inspiration are the works of other poets and books on philosophy, science, and religion. His poems include a number of parodies, jokes and poetic aphorisms based on these readings.Mu Pi Chan firmly believes that writing poetry allows him to release the thoughts in his head which would otherwise drive him mad.

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The Early Poems

(In the beginning the words were all)

Essex - Kent - Herts

(1973 - 1985)

The Parting

Looping lovingly downwards

She made as if to kiss me

But refrained

I motioned forwards

As if to meet her

But thinking better of it

I slumped back

I knew she must go

Love

Waves upon the beach

Breaking constantly

Only to rejoin

Too and fro

In and out

As i part you

And you leave me

As pleasure we seek

Winter At The End Of The Road

There are bare trees

Standing like guardians

Across the bleak field

I cannot enter

I have changed too much

Reclining Woman

Her world was bathed in silence

No love fell upon her eyes

Nor feelings twitched her nose

Her stare was fixed on the empty space above

But still her beauty shone

Through cold dusty white marble

Time To Go

There is nothing left for us here

The fields have been ploughed

And the hedges are stark against the winter sky

On the beach the waves still wash

But there is a cold hard edge to them now

The colours are gone

All is bleak

Towards Yule

The horizon is slowly rising

As the days are shortening

Soon the outsiders will fly

For the tide has turned

And the year is ebbing away

Different Times

(I have never stopped counting out time)

Essex - Kent - Herts - Surrey - Hants

(1977 - 2012)

My Time and Place

For what it is worth

You should read

The words you see

Without thought of me

But as