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Favorite Poetry As my years burn down
you put me to new use,
place me upon the palm
held up to you,
that I may light
a way for two:
just so, in time,
his light may be
upon another hand
outstretched, like me.
~ Lee Tzu Pheng
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Lee Tzu Pheng is a Singaporean poet and was awarded the Singapore Cultural Medallion for Literature in 1985 and the Southeast Asia WRITE Award in 1987. All her three published collections of poetry 'Prospect of a Drowning', 'Against the Next Wave', and 'The Brink of an Amen', have won the Singapore National Book Development Council's award for poetry.
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