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Tag Archives: poetry
rustles of bamboo leaves one fine afternoon (a collection)
‘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
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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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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life breathes on
Here’s another play at mixing media: the poem ‘Light Breathes On’ presented in a video capture, from behind obscure glass, of pigeons nesting just outside my window, this time with Bach’s composition ‘Awake, Calls The Voice To Us, BWV 140’ synced … Continue reading
The Radical Authenticity of Bob Dylan
“How can the life of such a man Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?” – from ‘Hurricane‘, a song written by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy, 1975 From any angle, radical defines Bob Dylan.
