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Tag Archives: Focus Philippines Magazine
lost in time
lost in time one day gone and i don’t remember anymore how my little brother looks like — blame my eyes for they have seen much to the seclusion of simplicity a lock of golden hair mingling with the innocence … Continue reading
Posted in poetry
Tagged brother, david bowie, Focus Philippines Magazine, growing old, memories, music, photograph, remembering, the exorcist, time, transcience, transition
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fleeting thoughts of a fevered lover
fleeting thoughts of a fevered lover now the gurgling of peace in confused currents of a soft-silvered stream that runs under my pillow is joined by the stringed reflection of your guitar — a heartfelt tone of some moonbeam lights … Continue reading
Circuitry
Circuitry The electric circuitry paces An environmental complex even as The swinging of one’s cradle Accelerates to and fro And to and fro: Finally dislodges me.
Posted in about me, collection: untitled (1976), essay, information technology, poetry, politics, science & technology
Tagged blogging, circuitry, computer, crescendo, Diliman, electrical, engineering, Focus Philippines Magazine, homesteading, identity, jolo, Kerima Polotan-Tuvera, Manila, martial law, Mindanews, philippines, poetry, Quezon City, Said Sadain, secessionist, Southern Mindanao, Sulu, technology, University of the Philippines, wiring, WordPress, writing, Zamboanga
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Dreaming For The Extraterrestrials
1. An astronomer dwells as a hermit in my mind, An entity I reap alive from a scholar’s treatise Not so much for his science but for his calculated dreams.
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
Posted in collection: looking back into ten years, poetry
Tagged balloons, Focus Philippines Magazine, love, poem
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