Tag: poetry

  • this week, in open letters to the world

    Read under the cut :)

  • We are always the protagonists of our own stories. But just once I had hoped you would play the support in a chapter I had written, laughing and rejoicing in the triumph I overtook. It was a high, it was momentous, it was glory overwhelmed. And it also paled against anything you had to say. I’m sorry.…

  • Haikus to Freedom

    I was reading the Inquirer a week and a day ago, and I thought of airing some opinions on Philippine news. With some poetry. I. to think of the world quite odd: easy to clamor easy to forget The Philippines is perhaps one of the few “democratic” countries where a corrupt president –overthrown by a mass…

  • Look Up – Spoken Word by Gary Turk

    My sister linked this video to me, and for a crystal clear moment I felt my life change.

  • I’ve known many people now lost to the sea Not unvigilant, or unskilled But human. and as such inherently weak to this force of nature

  • 10 thoughts on loneliness (i’m in an unfriendly slump)

    It comes and it goes. 

  • lazy sunday morning

    words are not the sword that i would drive against you  blood, knives, tooth and nail Me in my head, to that adjudicator and to that guy and to my failures. MINT 2014 :(

  • it’s another not-me day

    I have been hollowed out and carved like stone which is, so curious.  i am not stone i am brittle, i am weak i am breakable in the best ways a malleable little thing can be Life update / context I have a problem with dealing with emotions. If I have too many of them –if…

  • 27, 28

    27. Baby, it’s cold 0° and it’s fine I don’t have a jacket on. I crave the cold, It fills me up, cradles me close. Teeth chattering, I feel less & more alone. 28. maling tanaga pinilit kong tastasin tahi ng aking gawi,  sa loob naging pansin laman nati’y isang yari. Life update  Tanaga: 7-7-7-7…