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Ashfall
After the blast, the local radio frantically reported “about forty thousand people running for their lives.” Fancy that. Following up on this, I then filed my first news story on the eruption with that “massive evacuation” angle that hit the Daily Star headline...
To Them who Mean the Most
Love Introduced
The sun is caught
Somewhere between your teeth
It must be
When you smile
Cherry blossoms bloom
And rose petals sprout
If not on the ground,
Then at the very least in my stomach
When your eyes crinkle towards me,
The world is still and the sky is gentle
And the lone...
His Manny Pacquiao Punch
The buzz of anticipation is absolutely deafening. Boxing fans have jampacked themselves into the Araneta Coliseum to witness Felix “The Tornado” Abas, currently the WBC Bantamweight, division champion, and Joe Fairchild, the former champion, touch gloves for the second time. The first was...
2 poems
He Thinks Sounds Succumb to Extinction
Perhaps he no longer
gives the same attention
to the sounds that once
fed his senses:
like the inconsolable
sounds of waves through
an empty conch;
the raspy blows produced
when his neighbor
winnows the newly-milled rice,
letting the winds trawl for bran;
the noise of a peddler making
a...
The Lake Has Craters
As Zac walked towards the archives building, he noticed a bent betel tree growing dangerously close beside an old Ficus. Both old and young trees competed for the sun. He treaded this path before, with friends, but did not notice anything out of...
Worthy of YOU
Maru…my love
I believe
that you will make this world
a better place,
You and I
will carry the weight
of that hope,
To be an example of a woman
who doesn’t outgrow
the burden of love
That…for this lifetime
i will be
For my life’s purpose
Is to love you
the best way I know how.
I...
