Tag Archives: music

lost in time

Posted on November 10, 2018 by sandstarsblog

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 | 8 Comments

the falling ( a love story)

Posted on July 20, 2018 by sandstarsblog

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 | 11 Comments

Babel Rising: 4 – At 4:00 am

Posted on February 23, 2018 by sandstarsblog

4 – At 4:00 am At 4:00 am, Salm woke up with the ethereal feeling that the whole night sky was shining through the window. His tabletop, tilted 110o to face his bed, was glowing softly. It was strange that his … Continue reading →

Posted in babel rising - a short story, fiction writing, information technology, poetry, science & technology, short story | Tagged a cappella, agony, AI, artificial intelligence, babel rising, chat, communicator, computer, continent, dance of the sugar plum fairy, database, e-mail, information, Internet, Internet of Things, linguist, longing, music, pablo neruda, peacekeeping, poetry, tabletop, tchaikovsky, technology, time zone, tower of babel | 7 Comments

Babel Rising: 3 – There were days when

Posted on February 16, 2018 by sandstarsblog

3 – There were days when There were days when Salm felt that his father gave him the personal agent for a grand but mysterious purpose, maybe deeper than the purposes of those characters in that classic cult film, “Men … Continue reading →

Posted in babel rising - a short story, fiction writing, information technology, science & technology, short story | Tagged AI, anvil publishing, artificial intelligence, babel rising, coeli barry, e-mail, fiction, Internet of Things, literature, mountain biking, music, plagiarism, poetry, Qualia, sci-fi, search, software agent, tabletop, technology, the many ways of being muslim | 10 Comments

Babel Rising: 1 – In a time and place

Posted on February 9, 2018 by sandstarsblog

1 – In a time and place In a time and place whose technology was just a little bit more advanced than ours, there existed a schoolboy named Salm. The past year, on his 15th birthday, his father had given … Continue reading →

Posted in babel rising - a short story, fiction writing, information technology, science & technology, short story | Tagged AI, anvil publishing, artificial intelligence, babel rising, coeli barry, digital, fiction, information, integrator, Internet, music, Office Wall, reaching out, sci-fi, software agent, technology, the many ways of being muslim | 3 Comments

rustles of bamboo leaves one fine afternoon (a collection)

Posted on July 14, 2017 by sandstarsblog

‘Rustles of bamboo leaves one fine afternoon’ is not exactly a new collection, though this is the first time that it is being posted for general reading. Written on a bright and breezy March afternoon, in six short parts, shelved … Continue reading →