Month: June 2024

Writing True

Here We Go

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We imagine

Sending our big blue kites

A little above the bluer sky,

Halfway to heaven

Where angels play

Like silly butterflies.

But our hands are not letting go

Stapled, glued–we can’t get enough if I may say so

Consolation: We play for the angels

More silly than butterflies

Bewildering the blushing sky

Calling the day off; benching all the kites.


 

We imagine

Marching braver than the penguins

Holding hands inseparably one winter in northern Antarctic

Where snows end their fate in Hawaiian shave ice,

And the flightless birds need not to hide their babies

Soon coming into life.

But our bodies know only one season: Summer

Know only one task; one mission.


 

We learn from the bees.

We compete with the bonobos

And the lovebirds, the bowerbirds

The manakins and flamingos.

Imagining aside,

Of eros,

Of philia,

Intoxicated,

Addicted,

Here we go.

Writing True

Ironically

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No one looks at the sea

As passionate as the sky does—

Yet they never touch.

It reminds me of you:

How I am in awe—

And that’s all I can do.

Writing True

My Fingers and Toes Are Not Enough To Count Those

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Describe one of your favorite moments.

When you’re expecting a resentment;

And you get an embrace instead,

When you’re ready for defeat;

And you overwhelmingly win instead,

When you’re eyeing for a catastrophe,

And you end up in jubilation instead,

Those kind of moments

When you’re anticipating an enemy;

And you find a friend instead—

When you don’t expect the moon and the stars

Are aligned for you—

But they are—

And something nice, or great awaits you—

Those are my favorite moments.

Divine moments

Which I cannot fully and eloquently tell—

Maybe—

But I wish I can put them on canvass instead;

I guess,

memories are good enough

to lift and cherish myself

for the rest of my life.

Writing True

Waking up to a brand new day

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What notable things happened today?

. . . is notable enough

to be grateful for today.

So seize it

as you may!

Writing True

In Everything I Do

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What are you passionate about?

I give my best—

with my heart and soul—

Not only because,

I only have one life to live,

But to give glory to God.

Writing True

Spring

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What is your favorite season of year? Why?

From the blooming of flowers after the coldness of winter,

To the animals returning from hibernation,

To a tamed sun and breezy atmosphere—

And the hope that it brings,

My heart sings

My love for you Spring.

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Fortune Cookie Says

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You’d live a good life.

You just got to work for it

As best; as hard you can.

Writing True

Speak your truth

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If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

And face your greatest fear.