Gunpowder, paper, seismographs,
The art of tea, silk-woven crafts
Chinese culture can attest
Creative prowess at its best.
But what a country of extremes:
Whose one-child policy* now seems
Misguided; where are Chinese brides?
So much on its future rides …
I went there once, decades ago;
The Forbidden City proud to show
Vast Halls of Peace, Celestial Sky
Which so impressed my Western eye.
Imperialism - small, bound feet …
Wow! Hong-Kong stop where West-East meet;
Now chutzpah player on Internet
Tradition jostling with high-tech …
* One-child policy: 1979-2015
(c) Poet in the woods 2021
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