Monday, October 30, 2006

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry

seeing you again
your face caramel brown
laugh lines around smile
parenthesis surrounding the sides of your mouth
you hold your hands out
while I keep mine at my sides

indulging in nostalgia
a nice big dose of pang bahay blues
outside tita..s wooden gated door in Cebu
muttered memories run through her mind
she forgets if she turned off the oven
and then remembers that the ya-ya
may be in there to handle it
for that's what ya-ya's are good for dios mio

warm breeze
followed by that light warm drizzle
humidity coupled with hunkered down rain
we cobble together some old netting
to discourage the mosquitoes from
your damp but warm home
drops fall on ylang ylang petals
growing outside Jun Jun's planter box
he worry warts about bugs & cockroaches
the size of his fists getting into that patched square
its his mini oasis he has created & protects from vermin

tatay always managed to keep track of
his older brother's phone number
several times he went as far as to dial
the first few digits that separated
him from him

when nanay heard the news
she let out a sound
that was like a needle
that pricked us all
her Corazon
dissipating in the air like dew
and then devoured by the night
half miniscule remnants
fitting through
the eye of that needle

Currently listening :
CrazySexyCool
By TLC
Release date: By 15 November, 1994

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Unanchored

Current mood: grateful
Category: Writing and Poetry

A poem I've been working on for next month's chap book reading...I'll let you all know when that event will be soon...

Unanchored

alms giving to the sea, pobrecito
its will opens doors
to the aqui y ahora
at the boca of our
collective knowledge
we hover above it all

if granted one final wish
I will plant a besa
on the breeze's cheek and walk away
with all the grit and matter and elan
that it will not renounce your name

inside the belly of the sea
immersed in aqua agua
may the bliss
envelope you and grab the gust
forging past
unanchored

Currently listening :
Bravebird
By Amel Larrieux
Release date: By 20 January, 2004