A cheeky monkey
In the middle of the road
Its young Clinging onto its body
It moves with the wild boars
Hunting for food
Licking crumbs of Cheetos packets
Quaint trees loud crickets
rubbing their hands
Playing their melody for each other
Hiding amongst the rich green
The path to its family is dangerous
To hop across a dry barren
bulldozed path with feeble weeds
Between the two forests that divides them
Miniature crabs
The male’s pincer bigger
To attract a pretty young crab
settle down Start a family
In a bottle cap
He used his strong arm to lift it up
Created a door in his home
By biting
Strong mighty eagle
Surveying the sky
Its territory
Scanning at the ground
It swooped down
To a grey coloured can
The size of a mouse
Crawling with ants
Half eaten mushroom soup
Calm jellyfish
Floating in the river
Still
Unmoving
Quiet
Blending in
With plastic bags
Surrounding it
My poem is about the different sort of wildlife there are in Ubin and how human development has shaped how the animals around there live. I decided to focus on the wildlife because they’re the true residents of Ubin and our interference may not be exactly beneficial towards them (ad because the animals there were really cute)
My lifelong vacation dream as a child was to visit a clean ocean, that we can actually swim in. But after visiting Ubin, a place that is known to be relatively deserted, and realising how much trash there was, I started to wonder if that kind of vacation is even possible. After all, humans development in a “natural” area is inevitable when you want it to be known tourist attraction. And even the smallest bit of human contact will pollute the area someway or another. Hopefully one day I’ll find a clean beach.
"Forgotten"- A Writing Journey 