Category Archives: collection: looking back into ten years

This is not like it, the visions

Posted on April 13, 2017 by sandstarsblog

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 | 3 Comments

All before in the days

Posted on April 7, 2017 by sandstarsblog

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 | 3 Comments

For the luck of a rover

Posted on March 31, 2017 by sandstarsblog

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 | 1 Comment

We are no Methuselahs

Posted on March 30, 2017 by sandstarsblog

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 | 1 Comment

Looking Back Into Ten Years

Posted on March 29, 2017 by sandstarsblog

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 →

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Might be in the deep night she came

Posted on March 25, 2017 by sandstarsblog

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

Posted in collection: looking back into ten years, poetry | Tagged balloons, Focus Philippines Magazine, love, poem | 3 Comments

the growing

Posted on October 7, 2016 by sandstarsblog

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 →