Leong Liew Geok (b. 1947)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• A Middle-Aged Woman Dissuades a Potential Lover

• Women Without Men

• Free Spirits

• Dear Mona

• Women Drivers

• The Potter

• Without Ceremony

• Love Is Not Enough

5. SELECTED VIDEOS

SELECTED POEMS

Love Is Not Enough

Not that I don't want to be 
A loving wife, a good mother.
Not that I can't sacrifice
Like all women before or after.
Not that I don't love.
Not that I can't cook.
Not that I won't please.
Not that I shan't care.

Love is not enough

At home, husband 
And children lodge,
Biting, munching, gnawing 
Bone, bloody and bare.

Dream-monsters trip me 
At work, smirking of home;
Past midnight, in a kitchen 
Emptied of sound and smell, 
Tangled in knots, 
I see him upstairs, 
Asleep, alone.

Must bearers-wearers always ache?

Hard and white, I grate 
Like half-cooked rice.

by Leong Liew Geok
from Love Is Not Enough (1991)

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