Take- off Poetry

The uproar subsided,
tears like flowing water
dried up by the sun.
The residue the tears left
is like salt to fill a
ten- pound sack.

A deep love felt for a father
is like a mother's milk
dried up from the shock.
I had enough in mourning
yet, for mom awaits
the enormous responsibility.

Found poetry

We hid our faces
behind masks
that suggested other histories;
we touched hands
accidentally and our skin
sparked like a personal revolution.

We stared
across the room at each other,
waited for the conversation
and the conversion,
watched wasps and flies
battering against the windows.

We were children;
we were open mouths.
Open in hunger, in anger,
in laughter, in prayer.

Jesus, we all want to survive.

Ghazal Poem

Waiting in vain, impatiently I cry.

There you were yesterday leaving with no goodbye.

Days die so soon, emptiness made me strong.

It was yesterday weaving the thought of final goodbye.

Never will it matter, I found solace in my voice.

So it was yesterday I am believing you bid goodbye.

Some say, distance is what makes the heart grow fonder.

I tried to believe this yesterday, how it meant was goodbye.

Words are just words unless it makes you stronger.

Today I believe, yesterday is stronger than the word goodbye.

Haiku Poem

Heels run, heels walk by

Wherever way we tumble

Heels are our best friend.

Shakespearean

Never would have I imagined

That life would be so desolating.

Today, I feel somber and not wanting to begin

All the goodness in the bad, I feel not resonating.

Shuddering violently inside me, rapture fervor

Is there a way to turn it all around again?

Make your way to me, moment to savor.

If I may to seek goodness in what bears pain,

I would be silenced and make a fool of this world

For when I stray my eyes toward you, I disdain.

Too much has been given, nothing left of me to mould.

For when you come and you go,

You leave me with questions I need to know.

Frustration Poem

Go and unchain my chilly hands

Chase me so I know where to go.

Give me chances to grasp on things

For all I hear are groans of chastity.

Heartbreak Poem

How long have I wept

In the cold lap of sorrow

Pounding, hammering into deep

Devouring my inner yearning deep within.

A rusty smell of soil and rain

Makes me linger on the pain.

A rage upon me straining,

Struggling to get out of this deep burrow.

Boredom Poem

Too idle, too lazy

Am I going crazy?

The sound of tick- tock

Am I in jail lock?

Strong smell of wine

Am I feeling fine?

Thinkin' bout good times

Ugh! how tedious are these rhymes,

I must have gone crazy.

Family Poem

The slightest touch that smells of lilac

Grows from a garden I call home.

A mother whose love I want to go back to,

My baby steps to her ears watching as I freely roam.

A mother's arms like a lullaby cradling me in a rack.

Love or Lust Poem

Remembering O' sweet serenity days upon seeing you

Rhyme and melody in my ears like a serenade of

classic love song,

Thoughts came rushing by

My mind goes blank that surrenders

a single breath to a hush.

Your sweet fragrance smells of cinnamon

that heighten up my senses, it lingers in my nose.

It's what I get of a dose

So seducing, so enticing.

Nursery Rhyme Poem

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king's horses, and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again."

I was not meant to sit on a wall

But it was you who put me there

I did not wish to take a fall fall,

There is no help in which to turn

Another lesson I have to learn.

Any knowledge that I can gather,

Curious about life and all

Is so uncertain, like the weather.

I was not meant to sit on that wall,

I did not wish to have any fall.

Letter to Poem

My heart is pounded

I still cant believe

You were taken from me.

Time bound us together

In a short while to call you father.

I ramble and wonder

Why you're taken away that easily

I was never ready to say goodbye

To someone I hold very dearly.

If it were up to me, dad

I'd always keep you here.

I've been put down and pushed around

Often finding myself on the ground.

I've had to push myself deep inside

And build a wall behind which I can hide.

The scar is just too deep

And the emptiness succumbs me

Where happiness is an obstacle

Laughter a challenge

And complete is almost impossible.

My Translation of Tabing Ilog sung by Barbie's Cradle

Tabing Ilog lyrics

Sa ilog ang mundo'y tahimik

Ako'y nakikinig sa awit ng hangin

Habang kayo'y hinihintay

Na sana'y dumating bago magdilim

Sa tuwina'y kandungan niyo ay duyan

Panaginip na walang katapusan

Ang ilog hantungan niya'y pangako

Ng inyong pagbabalik

CHORUS:

Ngiting kasama ng hangin

Luhang daloy ng tubig

Sa ilog na `di naglilihim

Sa ilog ang mundo'y may himig

`Di sanang nagpalit ang awit ng hangin

Habang kayo'y hinihintay

Mata'y may ngiti, puso'y nananabik

Sa tuwina'y kandungan niyo ay duyan

Panaginip na walang katapusan

Ang ilog hantungan niya

The River

Translation of “Tabing Ilog” by Barbie’s Cradle

By the river, all the world is quiet
I am listening, to a wind that’s singing
While I’m waiting for you
I hope you come by, before darkness falls

The moments of rocking by the hammock
Of dreams that seem to have no end
The river is leading to a promise
That you’ll come back eventually

A smile, blowin’ in the wind
Tears like waterfalls
In a river with no secrets…

By the river, all the world is singing
I hope the wind won’t change, the songs that it’s singing
While I’m waiting for you
My eyes are gleaming, my heart is beating fast

The moments of swinging that cradle
Of dreams that seem to have no end
The river is leading to a promise
That you’ll come back eventually

A smile, blowin’ in the wind
Tears like waterfalls
In a river with no secrets…