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慢 / Slowly by Dr Liang Wern Fook

 

慢
梁文福

“走着走着就到了。”
小孩停步祝福蜗牛
神也停下来祝福小孩

Slowly
Written by Dr Liang Wern Fook
Translated by Joshua Ip

“a bit more, a little bit more, and you’re there.”
a child stops to bless a snail
a god stops to bless a child

An iconic singer-song writer of Singapore, Dr Liang Wern Fook was voted “Person Who Best Represents the Xinyao Spirit” in a public poll (2003). Dr Liang is the only artist who has received both the Young Artist Award (Literature, 1992) and the prestigious Cultural Medallion (Music, 2010) across different arts genres. He has over fifteen literary publications and has over two hundred songs and two Mandarin Musicals to his name. In the words of the late dramatist Kuo Pao Kun, Liang’s work “ bridges music and literature in the Singapore’s arts scene”. With his cultural and artistic achievements, Dr Liang has received the Nanyang Distinguished Alumni Award (2016) and the Singapore Chinese Cultural Contribution Award (2021).

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Poems on the MRT is an initiative by the National Arts Council, in partnership with SMRT and Stellar Ace. Produced by Sing Lit Station, a local literary non-profit organisation, this collaboration displays excerpts of Singapore poetry throughout SMRT’s train network, integrating local literature into the daily experience of commuters. Look out for poems in English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil in trains on the East-West, North-South and Circle Lines, as well as videos created by local artists and featuring local poets in stations and on trains. The Chinese, Malay, and Tamil poems are available in both the original languages and English. To enjoy the full poems, commuters may read them on go.gov.sg/potm.

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