poetry by colin w campbell
www.colincampbell.org
copyright colin w campbell
Dreams of Old Shanghai
Shanghai girl, Wang Xiudi
today you dream of days long gone.
Such times as sailing
down the Yangtze
to a cold place, so far away from home,
strange world across a lonely
sea.
Then China rising like a dream
brings, new times and many changes.
Now home, and
held in high esteem
you even know three languages,
but what's the one in which you
dream?
Dreams of Old Shanghai took First Place in the Dreams in our Hearts (Double Five) competition and was selected as the Editor's Choice in Sol Magazine, Summer 2006. Read on Radio Sarawak on 17 Jan 2007 and at Yunnan University, March 2011.
