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Category Archives: collection: looking back into ten years
This is not like it, the visions
This is not like it, the visions of a gradeschooler who too willingly would have traded for a twitching butterfly his balding, if not for the tonic, schoolmaster:
Posted in collection: looking back into ten years, poetry
Tagged Apocalypse, beatles, besieged, butterfly, Che Guevara, computers, consumerism, desolation, dystopia, Focus Philippines Magazine, Four Horsemen, ghosts, gradeschooler, growing up, innocence, poetry, proselytizers, revolutions, schoolmaster, Sulu, visions
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All before in the days
all before in the days the easter shells off me were peeled and out my umbilicus were yanked the rainbows cold
Posted in collection: looking back into ten years, poetry
Tagged change, changeling, Focus Philippines Magazine, outlier, poetry
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For the luck of a rover
For the luck of a rover the preacher is willing to forsake his pulpit and the audience. There is no worse suffering more than that of a man whose words come bouncing back as arrows repelled and now are lodged … Continue reading
Posted in collection: looking back into ten years, poetry
Tagged copping out, decisions, fear, Focus Philippines Magazine, fortune, hope, journey, luck, preacher, rover, turning away
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We are no Methuselahs
We are no Methuselahs To waste our time wasting time. Life is republican and death A silent democrat.
Posted in collection: looking back into ten years, poetry
Tagged aging, death, democrat, Focus Philippines Magazine, growing, life, methuselah, poetry, republican
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Looking Back Into Ten Years
Looking Back Into Ten Years is a collection of six poems first published in Focus Philippines magazine, issue of 5 April 1980. © SSJ 1980 Liquid seeping through the ground… Might be in the deep night she came … … Continue reading
Posted in collection: looking back into ten years, general, poetry
Tagged collection, Focus Philippines Magazine, poetry
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Might be in the deep night she came
might be in the deep night she came while i in my long hair was dead (i could never be sure). like a surgeon must have stitched a heart pulsing red
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Tagged balloons, Focus Philippines Magazine, love, poem
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the growing
liquid seeping through the ground and the life that sprouts is but a tiny strand of green and white; a root hugs the earth, a new leaf fixes face toward space and time azure now, then gray and windy and … Continue reading