Shall I compare thee to Boon Lay?
By Pamela Chow
The next time you’re caught waiting for your train, here’s something amusing to keep you occupied.
In celebration of Singapore Poetry Writing Month – yes, that’s happening now in April – Facebook group SingPoWriMo has crowd-sourced MRT-inspired poetry from locals to create “Poems on the MRT”.
Moderated by published poets like Alvin Pang, Pooja Nansi and Joshua Ip, the project was launched with a simple writing prompt:
(Source: SingPoWriMo Facebook page)
Within minutes, aspiring bards began to “chope” their stations and poems started flooding in. Now, every single station has its own poem, from Marina South Pier to the yet-constructed Woodlands North.
Every-bard-y’s poems have been compiled into a cool interactive poetry map, which you can see here.
No more ranting about delayed trains for me; from now on, it’s “O MRT, thou art late.”
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