China sans pictures

China Things I Remember;

I have pictures but none to show

Been there and memories suffice

Climbed the Wall, sailed the dirty Yangtze

Ate the dumplings and lots of "pork"

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Twenty-one days of my life spent

Spent there amongst the yellow race

Talked with teens in the Metro rail,

practicing their English on us

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I remember most the boat cruise

Lijiang River, Guilin, China

With the Haystack hills protruding

They cooked us a meal on the boat

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Toilets on the floor in the back

men's and women's, butts off the floor

Wine for sale, snake in the bottle

My pictures I'll find, not today

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Li River Cruise Boats--our boat was larger (Photo credit, courtesy of Wikipedia at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/The_Li_River.jpg/800px-The_Li_River.jpg )

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Today I am linked with Hannah at the Real Toads, Friday Challenge 

Hannah wants us to share some things concerning China in a poem.  My visit there would have been better sharing if I had pictures of our visit.  Unfortunately I do but they aren't digital and are not in a book.  Some shoe box tucked away hides them for now.

So, yes, I've been to China, it was on my retirement bucket list.  We did most of the things tourists do, visited the Terracotta Warriors, saw the Panda Bears too, shopped the open and covered markets, rode in a rickshaw, visited in a home, walked over Tiananmen Square, and a whole lot more.