Author: AinaBalagtas

I am an essayist, a news correspondent, a poet, a big fan of language and words; an ardent lover of arts and imagination-- I am a writer.
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Our Hearts

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Our hearts are barely the same size as our fists;

But their capacity to love

Is as infinite as the sky.

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Migrating to the United States

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Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.

It was tough being alone and starting anew;

But amid all risks and sacrifices,

Coming to the United States,

Taking and graduating from my undergraduate degrees—

And soon be taking my M. B. A.—

I have all the reasons to be so thankful,

Not just for being in the U.S.,

but in Hawaii in particular.

I love these islands,

I now call home.

Thank You, God!

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Seeing the Beauty in its Entirety

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It takes an open

Heart and mind to appreciate

beauty as a whole.

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Critters

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What makes you nervous?

Just the thought of a colony

Gives me goosebumps.

The most notorious to me:

Fire ants.

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The Paradox of Nostalgia

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You’re bringing back

Something that belongs to the past.

Then you end

up questioning yourself—

Questions make you cringe—

Because you still

don’t have the

answers to the many

whys, what . . . how.

So instead

You turn to

Nice and warm reminiscing ,

a familiar ache comes back

Bringing both good and bad

And the wanting

That’s haunting

And so with

The whys, what. . . how.

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A place to find like minded people

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How do you use social media?

To mingle;

To exchange sharing of passion, or ideas and etcetera—

With the hopes of building friendship along the way.

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The United States

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Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.

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America was—

And still is—the best idea.

A true divine force.

North Star of the Free

World, It puts its trust in God—

What a blessed union!

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Because of You

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I was blind;
But then you came.
And then light soon followed.

From the sky so blue,

Mirroring the ocean too,

To the lushes of green and morning dew,

Then the beaming moon and bright stars too,

And the happy fireflies I dare not shoo-—

I see every beauty in this world

Because of you.

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