Poetry by Teresa Allen
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My journal written online teresa@yachthouse.com |
My Dragon |
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What Mystery Behooves My Soul?
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My journal written online teresa@yachthouse.com |
My Dragon |
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What Mystery Behooves My Soul?
Books of Poetry: Summaries
By the Moongate: Poems from China and India
1982 through 1985, I taught English at universities in China, Thailand and Kuwait. I wrote these poems during my travels in India and China and while teaching at HUST: Central China University of Science and Technology.
HUST was my first overseas teaching position. It occurred in a China that wore navy blue Mao suits and hot pink long-john underwear. Often, I rode my bicycle along country roads near the university. In the spring, purple fields of clover and yellow rape seed carpeted the countryside. I rode to hillside pagodas and pavilions that were a thousand years old, and I picnicked beside lakes where farmers herded ducks with bamboo poles.
Echoes on a Rippling Pond: Poems from Thailand
I wrote these poems during my year and a half in Thailand. I taught at the Prince of Songkhla in the Malay Muslim fishing town of Pattani, southern Thailand. At the same time, I pursued a tourist business on a southeastern island called Lamson. (See, Lamson, Found a Lost Paradi.)
This was one of the most difficult years in my life (next to Law School High). I was a contract teacher making more money than the Thai professors who had been at the university for many years. Some of these professors resented me because "what you earn is who you are." And the Thai culture is a Status Conscious Culture. My directness did not sit well either in this soft spoken indirect culture. Extreme culture shock rattled my mind and echoed many of these poems. (see My Value Orientations).
These Poetry Books Coming Soon:
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