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Proletarian Speaking
by Sara Coslett → (All Poetry by Sara Coslett)
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Photo: View of Hong Kong from Star Ferry


Twenty hundred hours from the thirty-seventh floor
Lights tower over Victoria Harbor. From Kowloon
to Hong Kong, sky scrapers twinkle-twinkle
manmade stars; shining, flickering to the sounds
of the tourism board. Ferries hurry from shore
to shore. Tired workers huddle into queue, surging
for the sliding door; rarely asking for anything more.
Lamborghini’s race at diplomatic immunity speeds.
Proletarian speaking ... once a fishing village,
now a sea of “Chinese Liberation” dreams.


© 2009 Sara Coslett

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 Reviews of "Proletarian Speaking"
Reviewed on June 28, 2009
What a powerful comment upon the effects of capitalism. Very well done!

Reviewed by Cryssa C
Reviewed on May 5, 2009
Sad...in some ways...that it has come so far from its humble beginnings...but on the other hand...it is wonderful that there is that place where Chinese liberation dreams have unfolded...
Cryssa

Reviewed by Bobbi Duffy
Reviewed on May 4, 2009
Very interesting perspective on Hong Kong.

Reviewed on May 1, 2009
"Proletarian Speaking" has given a flawless diamond glowing star to add light to the life's style of Hong Kong.

I have enjoyed the reading of "Proletarian Speaking".

In admiration,

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed on April 30, 2009
Beautifully imaged in picture and verse - well done, Sara! Would love to visit Hong Kong.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on April 30, 2009
wow--great picture--a lovely sifgt and poem to match

Reviewed by John Flanagan
Reviewed on April 30, 2009
Sara,
Perfect pictures both, this is how it is in this unique former colony, now a full part of China and yet with its own distinctions and identity...and shortcomings like everywhere else. A fine write.
John

Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on April 30, 2009
Sara, thank you for this glimpse of Hong Kong. I felt like
I was on the ferry with you. Would that I were. -gene,

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on April 30, 2009
See, dreams can and do come true....

Be always safe,
Karen


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