Month: January 2024

Writing True

Enthralled

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We are so enthralled in each other’s lips

As if they’re lollipops;

And we can’t help binging like kids.

YouTube/Natalie Cole/The Very Thought of You.

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“In You the Earth

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Little

rose,

roselet,

at times,

tiny and naked,

it seems

as though you would fi

in one of my hands,

as though I’ll clasp you like this

and carry you to my mouth,

but

suddenly

my feet touch your feet and my mouth your lips:

you have grown,

your shoulders rise like two hills,

your breasts wander over my breast,

my arm scarcely manages to encircle the thin

new-moon line of your waist:

in love you have loosened yourself like sea water:

I can scarcely measure the sky’s most spacious eyes

and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth.”

Excerpt From

Love Poems

Pablo Neruda & Donald D. Walsh

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Two Drifters

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We’re but drifters who came across each other’s path in search for love.

We kept looking for the sign,

up in the sky and down in the sea,

not realizing love

was happening before our hearts,

between you and me.

YouTube/Moon River/Audrey Hepburn, Frank Ocean/Cover ft. Nieka Moss

Gospel · Inspirational · Non-Fiction · Resiliency · Writing True

A True Story

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One bright Monday morning,

I sat by a church under a big tree,

I was taking a quick break,

Enjoying the fresh air.

A dove—a pigeon as locals would say,

Landed in front of me.

And me,

Bewildered I said to myself,

“What a beauty, a blessing—

Thank God!”

But in split second,

The beauty turned into a bully!

. . . took a mean act of nature right in front of me,

And just like that.

I sighed.

Because with all the bullying

I went through in life

—subtle or not—

—inspired by faith—

Now, not a thing:

Be winged—

Or a critter,

Or a bipedal thing—

None can bully me

No more.

For all that I went through,

I moved on.

I affirmed the blessings;

I acknowledged the healing

Of course, from the Almighty loving,

Who I hear everyday,

Saying “‘Fear nothing,

For I am with you’ sweet thing.”

Thank You, Father! And to You be all the glory!

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Faith

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Hope without faith is but a wishful thinking.

Love without faith is but a wandering emotion.

It gives grit and endurance to both;

And serves as an invisible seal of truth—

Which the naked eyes

Aren’t naked enough to see all that are true.

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Love

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Cannot be defined

Cannot be measured

Cannot be weighed

Colorless

Infinite

Invincible

The heart always has a room for. . .

. . . just “leave the door open,”

says Bruno.

YouTube/Dionne Warwick/What the World Needs Now

YouTube/Trijntje Oosterhuis/What the World Needs Now

Inspirational · Poetry · Writing True

Hope

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A day without hope is gloomy:

Darkness permeates the heart

and brings doom in mind.

It weakens the spirit

that not even a leaf is light enough for the burdened soul.

When sun’s a bay;

Someone is surely in dismay.

For hope is a thing of light;

The very essence of dawn,

The happy Casper of dusk whispers “tag along.”

In trio with faith and love—

Thou shall not doubt.

Writing True

Happy New Year!

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“My favorite song is my heartbeat,” me.

I am not sure what a brand new year means to you. But I am confident that there are a lot of people who want to better themselves for the new year. And most often than not, they call it resolution.

The challenge with “resolution,” is that it’s a self-imposed to do. And any imposition carries a burden, which makes it harder to carry through.

Moreover, if you make it a wish, you aggravate the impossibility, as you would rely on some luck, or magic, or miracle to happen. So better yet, skip the labeling and just do it (as Nike says). Strive to make it an everyday thing or part of your routine.

With that said, I want to get back to creativity. I feel like God has given me a gift and I am not using it—my bad! It doesn’t have to be grand like as if I’m aiming for Pulitzer or Nobel, nor any accolades.

Maybe a thought, a poem, a picture, a song, a musing, or a prayer—whatever! The goal is 365 of brand new meaningful content—each day—with a hope of living my best life and bettering myself in 2024.

And so here goes my first!