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Fireflies: a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs
“….a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs….”* As a child, I used to chase and marvel at the fireflies twinkling in the night. As an adult, I now look at the fireflies as a glowing refutation of Charles … Continue reading
Posted in essay, music, nature, religion, science & technology
Tagged Adam Young, bioluminescence, Charles Darwin, creative evolution, disorder, entropy, evolution, fireflies, incandescent bulb, intelligent design, lightning bugs, Marc Branham, natural selection, order, Owl City, Radim Schreiber, Tsuneaki Hiramatsu
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blood moon risen
a blood moon risen, is it blemished with my sins, wounded with my pains? © said sadain, jr. 2018
Posted in about me, essay, general, nature, photography, poetry
Tagged blood moon, damas tree, jeddah, lunar eclipse, Mars, Moon Toon, poetry, Serafi Mall, THE RED PLANET please!
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the falling ( a love story)
the falling (a love story) he feels she likes him she feels he likes her past iambic convos their arms brush electric as armrest fades to clouds this must be love astir floating from their bosoms flutterbies of light and … Continue reading
Posted in nature, poetry
Tagged breathe, Dark Sky Island, Enya, falling, flight, flutterbies, gravity, iamb, life, light, love, music, passages, passengers, Roma Ryan, sea, The Humming, waves
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a tense life
a tense life against a calm sky, a clear day, but only for a while. © said sadain, jr. 2013
Posted in nature, photography, poetry
Tagged calm, Cordyline, Cycad, Cycas, lines, malaysia, palm lily, pulau kapas, sago palm, tense, Terengganu
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Peculiar Speed of the 5-7-5s
In a parallel universe, I would have been a prolific writer, churning out, day and night, streams of prose and poetry, and kilometric reams of novels and essays, you would wonder if I ever stop for anything, if I ever … Continue reading
Posted in about me, book, fiction writing, haiku, nature, photography, poetry
Tagged 5-7-5, book, family, work, writing
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this is water
this is water this is water we must learn to love while it embraces us beneath our skins and with our best to keep it pure lest we forget to swim and drown in sins.
The Tempest
The Tempest It looms on the horizon riding the back of waves raising sails in ashen canvas that can only burst to spread fury and fire rains and dancing dervishes. It draws in breath to still the air so that … Continue reading
Posted in nature, poetry
Tagged clouds, covenant, dervish, Elysian, maelstrom, nature, oyster, pearls, poetry, Poseidon, scourge, tempest, typhoons, University of the Philippines, UP Literary Apprentice, worry beads
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