https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a What's it about? en-us 2018-10-31 04:37:34 UTC 2018-11-06 03:00:41 UTC hello@padlet.com bangkokpete82 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/298836363 Time again for the annual joust, the regular fanfare
a call to arms, the imperative letters stern
as clarion notes, the king’s command, upon
the pain of court-martial, to tilt
at the old windmills. With creaking bones
and suppressed grunts, we battle-weary knights
creep to attention, ransack the wardrobes
for our rusty armour, tuck the pot bellies
with great finesse into the shrinking gear
and with helmets shutting off half our world,
report for service. We are again united
with sleek weapons we were betrothed to
in our active cavalier days.

We will keep charging up the same hills, plod
through the same forest, till we are too old,
too ill-fitted for life’s other territories.
The same trails will find us time and again,
and we quick to obey, like children placed
on carousels they cannot get off from, borne
along through somebody’s expensive fantasyland,
with an oncoming rush of tedious rituals, masked threats
and monsters armed with the same roar.

In the end we will perhaps surprise ourselves
and emerge unlikely heroes with long years
of braving the same horrors
pinned on our tunic fronts.
We will have proved that Sisyphus is not a myth.
We will play the game till the monotony
sends his lordship to sleep.
We will march the same paths till they break
onto new trails, our lives stumbling
onto the open sea, into the daybreak.

Kim Boey Cheng (1965-)

]]> 2018-10-31 04:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/298836363 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300330093 2018-11-05 07:06:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300330093 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800245 Shrinking gear]]> 2018-11-06 02:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800245 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800263 commanders are mean. roar like a lion because singapore]]> 2018-11-06 02:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800263 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800271 “We will...” in third stanza, sounds determined]]> 2018-11-06 02:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800271 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800272 Waste of time]]> 2018-11-06 02:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800272 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800515 Doing it over and over again]]> 2018-11-06 02:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800515 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800535 2018-11-06 02:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800535 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800630 2018-11-06 02:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800630 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800639 weapons we were]]> 2018-11-06 02:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800639 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800641 Since he is talking about the Greek myth where you just point a rock up a hill and watch it roll back it tells ur he thinks going back every year is also annoying hard and tedious like the myth. Where he is asked to do something by a large power - in this case his king and he can’t go against the king, but he doesn’t wanna do it either ]]> 2018-11-06 02:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800641 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800731 2018-11-06 02:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800731 benny7 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800734 The rituals are dull and boring]]> 2018-11-06 02:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800734 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800796 2018-11-06 02:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800796 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800883 Start with calm and end with fustration]]> 2018-11-06 02:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800883 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800893 with creaking bones]]> 2018-11-06 02:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300800893 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801050 “ we will keep charging up the same hills... same forests til we are too old” 

It’s repetition of events shows that it’s the same. Nothing changes. It’s the same system and can be seen as old fashioned. The people are getting too old and can’t do it anymore so there’s no point and they should change this tradition and repetition. ]]> 2018-11-06 02:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801050 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801084 Religious connotation 
Religion = not real
∴ Pointless ]]> 2018-11-06 02:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801084 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801282 Stanza 2-3 same 6 times]]> 2018-11-06 02:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801282 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801366 Talks about medieval times, maybe the poet is trying to say that the system is outdated?]]> 2018-11-06 02:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801366 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801676 Seems like he is bringing up a mock of pride. He talks of how they wear their armour which is usually a symbol of strength bravery and pride and now he says it’s rusted and how bad it is and hints at how he is forced. Like kids on a carousel ]]> 2018-11-06 02:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300801676 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300802183 They had to go back to fight and didn’t want to but had to and they lose the will to]]> 2018-11-06 02:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300802183 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300803508 - Won a schloarship from the Goethe-Institut to peruse German
- Won National University of Singapore Poetry Writing/Creative Pose competition
- Singapore-born Australian. He is Chinese descent
- Born in 1965, currently 53 years old
Poet, teacher]]> 2018-11-06 02:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300803508 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300803698 very important and needing immediate]]> 2018-11-06 02:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300803698 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300803788 Fake & powerless threats -> can’t do much]]> 2018-11-06 02:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300803788 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300804658 to fight on horses using a long stick]]> 2018-11-06 02:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300804658 https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300805671 Possibly: they were threats masked as requests. But people know this. They can’t go against the king. So they accept his ‘request’ ]]> 2018-11-06 03:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bangkokpete82/vq91ztdesg3a/wish/300805671