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Fallen Leaves
Feel and fly
With words and wings
Me and I
We talk about everything!


These are just words, like fallen leaves, touching the earth for the first time the moment they are being read. But for me, the wind that stirs them now on the ground is still the same as it was when they were on the tree. The fluttering before the fall is my joy and still is on the ground. I hope you will find a stirring within the leaves too.

Poems:
when wind meets rain | well child | a c of change | teach |
my little candle | like fireflies | mute fingers |
tell me | terror |
leaf language |
last lights | nymphood dream | heartstrings |
deso-u-lation | last post | to fish a setting sun | timelessness |
waking up to a dream | 100 years bodhi tree | cast your dice |
a sorrier sight we are than death stars | on brave shores |
turtles in cyrene |
Pleas (for nature conservation & sensibility):
chek jawa | changi trees | sungei mandai | green plan |
upper changi road north | trees of labrador | stopping noah |
a 100 years bodhi tree | green voices, take heart |
losing a green lung: sentosa forest | not just 'a few plants' |
scum at macritchie reservoir | today I've been made a chimp |





through the looking glass of self-help | price-tagging nature? outrageous! |
impending loss of mangrove and seagrass flat at sungei pulai
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forest science crapped in Singapore | wedding without wading into sharkfin soup |
my REACH feedback: development of spa retreat at mandai unsound |
embracing nature conservation: how? | removing snaring nets and mind traps |
offering help to a tree on vesak day | you can help gabriel save a tree |
say what? habitat destruction? | sentosa: coral relocation; lies beneath it |
Prose (and other Papers):

chek jawa's wet wonderland
| chek jawa days | house no.1 | coastal hill forest | tree of time |
ode to Hopea sangal | home on high | 'fossil' fern found | thank you Minister Mah |
sound of fallen leaves | that trees do cry | children of the wind | dexteritas | lion of tor |
sedi-mentality | new fern | priscilla | the stupa man | between nothing | proof of the cock |
in a nutshell | irreplaceable forest | celebrating the ecological life | a durian named desiree |
beatitude for amateurs | fishing spiders | spiders that steal | web of life | mutualism & possibilities |
temak's legitimacy | shoes at your door | daddy longlegs & heart | the world is my saucer |
tell it like scheherazade | the farside of fritos | love affair at sembawang beach | sedi-mentality |
old seawall at pasir panjang | hear the dog's retort and smell | king neptune reclaims his throne |
pinning down doomsday | chirp & listen: the talking cricket | a foxy tale of tree transplant |
mother and grandmother of all forest destruction | the grassblade swordsman | singing in the rain |
nature volunteerism: why we do what we do | the ethical fisherman - where are you? |
pumping resourcefulness |
Plants, People & Places:

my fieldbook | last day 2005 | last day 2006: a little prayer | 2007: ode to pioneers of old |
penang hill 2007 | chek jawa wetlands: a new chapter (07/07/2007) | braddell tree 15/07/2007 |
national day 2007 | en bloc ate my char kway teow | chek jawa, christmas 2007 | hantu, Apr 08 | happy ardour day, 1 June 2008 | new book: parasitic flowering plants |
Paint, Pastel, Pen, Pencil & Photo-essay:
my sketchbook | chlorofeel | tagore: my heart beats her waves at the shore |
Perchance for Play

armless | monkey business | too long | me taller | escape | chain reaction | rock climber | eureka |
ear wax | lichen Singapore | colourful | imagine | lesson van | spokes | E = 3mc2 ? | shelf life |
golden moments | where? | whale | palmistry | bird's monologue | love in the woods | peanuts |
tree teknologi | the fly who shagged me | flying kick | want to be a frito? | cracked pot |
elusive dragon finally found ! | singapore's oldest durian ad | cicadas make great wives |
windmill on my mind | spider test | florid descriptions, erotic allusions | look! a rafflesia! |
new birdie-beggar on the block | my favourite tree in bukit timah hill | polar bear me! | cloud 9 |
gargoyle on a coconut tree | rich poor, poor rich | a striking pose at the gateposts | kwan yin |
seed toy |

Winter solitude -
In a world of one colour
The sound of wind.
- Basho
  ©Joseph Lai 2003