DAILY PHOTO: Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple

Photograph of Wong Tai Sin Temple Main Altar in Chuk Un, Hong Kong. Taken obliquely to the front.
Photograph of Wong Tai Sin Temple Main Altar in Chuk Un, Hong Kong. Taken head-on to the front.

DAILY PHOTO: Rain Clouds Over Victoria Harbor

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A photograph taken from the Star Ferry in the middle of Victoria Harbor on a rainy day in Hong Kong.

DAILY PHOTO: A Scene from Kowloon Park

DAILY PHOTO: Views from Hong Kong’s Double-decker Trams

DAILY PHOTO: Good Wish Garden, Wong Tai Sin Temple

DAILY PHOTO: Hong Kong Airport

DAILY PHOTO: Highrise Hong Kong

DAILY PHOTO: Double-Decker Trams of Hong Kong

Long Gone Hong Kong [Free Verse]

In my youth, "Honk Kong"
Came after "Made in __"
As often as did any
Set of letters.

I can't remember the last time
I saw that declaration.
I do hear references to the
Hong Kong Markets opening.

They tore down the
Kowloon Walled City ---
A chock a block, chunky
Architectural cancer growth
Where people lived squeezed
More than a million to the
Square kilometer.

But still there are places where people
Are packed and packed --
While densely stacked --
In high-rise Building-Cities.
(If a City-State is a place in which
City and Nation are identical,
A Building-City is where a
Building contains all the
Functions of a city.)
One could live without leaving
If one didn't love sunshine.

But people do love sunshine.

And mountains and beaches,
Which Hong Kong also --
Against all reason --
Has in abundance.

DAILY PHOTO: Hong Kong Skylines