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Shooting Star
If one looks closely into the night sky,
and spot, by chance, these flying balls of fire,
a wondrous sight for the naked eye,
a heavenly transcendence of one’s earthly desire;
a broken space rock’s fallen debris
which acquainted with the earth’s atmosphere,
blazing through, the speed of unimaginable...
Poem #2: Numbers
They’re everywhere.
When you’re born: 7/24/1997
Age: 20 years old
Deadlines: 11:59pm, October 10, 2018
Grades that fluctuate: 94 to 60; 5.0 to 1.0
First salary: P16,000
Damn bills, taxes: P5,000 for electricity??!?!
Properties: 1
Relatives: 156
Christmas party giveaways: P50.00 for each child??!?!
Speed limit on the highway: Don’t go beyond 100!!!
Doctor’s...
Ang isinumpang luntiang langit ni Ryan V. Labana
Nagpapausok na naman ang mga kapre–
‘Yung mga dambuhalang pabrikang nakatapak sa dating luntiang lote.
Hindi ko man marinig ngunit animo’y umiiyak,
Itong bago kong pananim na sinasakal ng lupang bitak-bitak.
Walong gabi’t siyam na umaga na ang nakalipas,
Hindi na ako makapaghintay sa pagbukas ng mga dahon...
1945 by Raphael Salise
I lied
when I said
“I’ll be home soon,
don’t you worry about me”
I just didn’t want
to hear you
burst into tears
through the receiver
for it would also rain
down my cheeks
under the shadow of my helmet.
I lied
when I said
“Victory is ours”
after two nights and awake-up
the only thing that...
Dilang Anghel by Mariel Annarose Nicole L. Alonzo
Bloodletting
Sleeptalker, I wake on bleeding leaves.
Banig bitten beneath me, I must’ve said
a bad word. My mother anointing her
disappointment. I say my sorry, closed my legs,
baptized my bed under the rusty hand pump.
Prayed over long-deaf stomata, its gone sugars.
Then like a good daughter, grounded...
My heart, wasteland
By Rachel Salud
My heart is a wasteland
Of cigarettes smoked to the hilt,
And walls that bear the shadows of rain;
Of tree stumps that never grow,
And seeds that don’t bloom over the concrete earth.
I hide where ants feast over dead roots,
Where broken bottles take the...
