Ashley Tong

Joined September 2018

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Bio

If I were a painter, linguistics would be my palette, and poetry my favourite brush. If I were an artist, nature would be my muse, and music my companion, and I shall endeavour to depict life as I see it.

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Goodbye Zoe
With a road between us You shouted your number And that was how our friendship begun The past no longer cumbered As quizzical as it may be
By Ashley Tong about a year ago in Poets
Little Things
My heart was broken When you left with the pixies But with the words of Dickens Whom you praised so deeply ‘You are in every line I read’
By Ashley Tong 3 years ago in Poets
Just. just
Just as fables are always told in shades of a phantom gold glimmer through a gaping hole of the very sight we so consciously hold
By Ashley Tong 3 years ago in Poets
Don't kill a spider
Before I begin, it has to be declared: I am not going to pretend to be an expert on spiders by trying to debunk all the myths about them, because there are others who do better, and are more qualified on the subject. This is simply a manifesto of love for my favourite animal.
By Ashley Tong 3 years ago in Petlife
The Other Side
In cryptic the outlines gestate And under the pulses they oscillate It was a quivering hint to be au fait With the dire adjure to aspirate
By Ashley Tong 3 years ago in Poets
Lighthouse
Unbeknownst to the world I stand my roots anchored rivetedly to the land Impervious to the winds of demand that it be requisite to understand
By Ashley Tong 3 years ago in Poets
An Infinite Mile
Words I have sung to be taken aback be staggered by a shot of Kodak But treading in midst of an echoing track Was always meant for my cul-de-sac
By Ashley Tong 4 years ago in Poets
Beautiful People
We quietly departed from twilight gazing at the stars overshooting the sky with ease with space but unalike it was all recast with daylight
By Ashley Tong 4 years ago in Poets
But I Am a Traveller
Rivers have known to make headways for the adamant essence of weight Though hindrance habitually betrays nought can cease the notion of change
By Ashley Tong 4 years ago in Poets
Me Too
There was a time I felt a fool For colloquy was never my tool Was it really more than my due Or was it perhaps always a rue
By Ashley Tong 5 years ago in Poets
The Gap in Between
It is a voice in her head, all day posing the questions that replay Not why, but what makes it stay if only one knew what to say
By Ashley Tong 5 years ago in Poets
Check Me in with Dr. Freud
Notwithstanding the morning sky crystal clear and ever so bright Was it the sound of a million sighs in that despairing grey matter of mine
By Ashley Tong 5 years ago in Poets

Ashley Tong

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Goodbye Zoe

Little Things

Just. just

Don't kill a spider

The Other Side

Lighthouse

An Infinite Mile

Beautiful People

But I Am a Traveller

Me Too

The Gap in Between

Check Me in with Dr. Freud

Stories (13/0)