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image is a mash-up by ssj from pixabay.com photos of FelixMittermeier and geralt
word power
words are mighty source
of both understanding and
misunderstanding.© said sadain, jr. 2018
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image courtesy of peter_pyw @ pixabay.com
of crabs and mentalities
why do you get blamed
for their own mentalities?
o crab, you’re just fine.© said sadain, jr. 2018
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the wind will have its purpose
the wind ruffles my thoughts
that cling like leaves to branches,a tree takes root, a bird must fly
and leaves will whisper to the wind -
mt. tumantangis
(from the collection: Mt. Tumantangis and Other Poems on Sulu)
she lays open the breast to the sea
and crouches low enough to ward off the winds,
her brows impose the wisdom of the time
harder than the jutting rocks, yet gentle
as the blue of the sky that crowns. -
Devora de Bris,
she breaks her fast
with dwindling hydrogen thrust,
toasted titanium
and a cracked cranium, -
A typical scene in Sulu & Tawi-tawi islands, when calmness is a boat cradled by the gentle sea in the safety of a wharf on a breezy, sunny day. Photo of a Simunul Island wharf by Harly Limlingan Marcuap of http://www.akrosdayunibers.com, 2013.
the calm
(from the collection: Mt. Tumantangis and Other Poems on Sulu)
it haunts the people’s dream of comfort too.
the cozy rooms, the furnished halls
drive the cold out into the night
and into the poor man’s house, it nurses
the bleeding lungs, the muted mouth.
and when a launch docks beside the wharf
with shrill hoots in the early dawn
arrival is no more wakeful than
departures in the afternoon. -
(All photos are courtesy of Harly Limlingan Marcuap of http://www.akrosdayunibers.com)
the waves of sulu
a boy contemplates the nipa huts
beneath the coconut trees as a patch
firewoods for the sacrificial pyre
and the land heaves beside the waves.
he rows as a speck in the sea
his arms full now, his eyes deep
scan the point on the beach
where once a father had dearly bled. -
surreal image mashed up by SSJ from his photo of damas trees, and images from pixabay.com courtesy of aitoff, Capri23auto and Clker-Free-Vector-Images
the damas trees of sitteen
green conocarpus
dinosaurs lined up in mid
island of sitteensilent witnesses
to the flow of red-tailed worms
this side of the world -
a stilt house community along the shores of patikul in the sulu archipelago at sunrise, photo by Harly Limlingan Marcuap of www.akrosdayunibers.com, 2013
dawn
the causeways rattle under
sleepy feet waking
to the call to prayer at dawn;
winds snake from
below the sea as sharp bites
to a native reality
and the tide gently laps
to grace the burdened stilts.
- when the lustered sea embraces the sand, is it to claim or cede its flotsam? when my mind sails with the rolling wind, is it to cast or catch a sparkle?
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