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Stay for the Fireworks
And while it’s true
that knowledge of self is
required before you can
love, truly love, you must
also have a healthy
faith in the unknown,
an appreciation for
the wind that blows
from you know not where,
that stirs the sea and
leads it to strange shores
where you may never see
the sky...
Sable-An Ode to a Stray Cat
You were a stray looking to survive
Out on the streets walking day and night
Your asphalt bed may give you some rest
Yet you dream of loving arms and kisses
And a home to call your nest.
Your dark fur, glazed with a golden sheen
Shines in the...
Of Science, Of Fate
Frost eyes stare
into the layers
and layers underneath.
Rotate, adjust, rotate, adjust.
some eyes are made
to look at what’s under
miscroscopes
and see the dinosaur-old cells
within barely human
humans.
Cold hands always
gloved blue or white or green.
Scrape, cut, scrape, cut.
Some hands touch
the insides, even graze
the silver linings
of a purpling heart.
Soft...
Wishing war
How hard it is to take a side.
Where I live, we are tribes
Of rich and poor, and in-betweens.
We are tribes of different colors.
We are descended from chinks called insects,
From older tribes we try to genocide,
We are descended from the conqueror-rapists
And from the conquered...
Iniisip-isip na Liham sa Kaibigang Makata sa Panahon ng FB (kay bay noel )
Kaibigan,
Petmalung lodi ka na dapat ngayon, paalala lang
Baka kasi nirarayuma na yang akay-akay mong salita
Sa taludtod; apdeyt apdeyt din pag may taym.
Wag na wag kang pupuslit ng kakosa, katropa, karantso,
Baka walang makaintindi: patok ang paps at repa.
Mala-wattpad ang peg ng drama ng saknong
Kung...
Astronomy
We peer furtively at smiles, bent wrists
and it smacks of mortality.
We imagine—nebulae in the irises
of a stranger, like they bear stories
waiting for the optimum mass
of hydrogen, us counting on fusion.
The wish to witness the immortal
is a prayer written by the finite.
A folly—we are...
