Tag Archives: FOCUS Philippines

barren beach

Posted on August 11, 2018 by sandstarsblog

barren beach it is the ebb it seems: the tide has left tiny corals naked like forever-dancing pale-faced stuffed monkeys under the glaze of the midday heat. the drought is settled even beside the sea upon this empty reach.

Posted in nature, poetry | Tagged barrenness, beach, climate change, compunction, dream, drought, dry spell, emptiness, FOCUS Philippines, forgiveness, global warming, heat, sea, shells, stardusts | 8 Comments

A Red Rattle Toy

Posted on August 3, 2017 by sandstarsblog

A red rattle toy, my mother’s gift Rattles violently, bloodshakes my young head. I could not hold it upright, Too small my hands, too finite With ten fingers in vain may clutch A furiously spinning axis: The toy rattles, cradles … Continue reading →

Posted in collection: untitled (1976), poetry | Tagged axis, cradle, earth, entropy, FOCUS Philippines, innocence, life, mother, rattle toy, revolution, satellite, spinning, symphony, untitled collection, vibrations, violence | 1 Comment

The Nose-Counting Game

Posted on July 28, 2017 by sandstarsblog

I am a child alone, the neighborhood could not care less. A nose-counting game today spells my existence in the monitor of the Census Man’s computer.

Posted in collection: untitled (1976), poetry | Tagged big data, census, collective boom, computer, FOCUS Philippines, hidden, identity, individual, nose-counting, numerals, population explosion, statistics | 6 Comments

At The Edge of Things

Posted on October 7, 2016 by sandstarsblog

Where affords the best of views The edge of a woodland yawns To the spiders of the wind, cotton-hard Caressing where one is stretched Between trees and skies;

Posted in collection: at the edge of things, poetry | Tagged at the edge of things, borders, FOCUS Philippines, poem | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in collection: looking back into ten years, collection: mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, nature, poetry | Tagged FOCUS Philippines, growing, looking back into ten years, mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, pen names, poem, Sulu, tree, UP Writers Club | 4 Comments

Shells

Posted on October 1, 2016 by sandstarsblog

There are more to them than name and symmetries colors and textures dwelling in the vastness of a fluidity that marks their nooks and crevices edges and eyes grasping the folds of an ocean.

Posted in collection: at the edge of things, nature, poetry | Tagged FOCUS Philippines, poem, shells | Leave a comment

Flight

Posted on September 24, 2016 by sandstarsblog

Morning hears the panicking Of fearful birds in the eye of sun And settle only when Blinding red shall close them down On horizontal weariness. Then Evening listens to the sighing Tracking on her knees it seems Sounds of living … Continue reading →