Tag Archives: sea

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

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

the calm

Posted on November 9, 2017 by sandstarsblog

the calm (from the collection: Mt. Tumantangis and Other Poems on Sulu) it haunts the people’s dream of comfort too. the cozy rooms, the furnished halls drive the cold out into the night and into the poor man’s house, it … Continue reading →

Posted in collection: mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, photography, poetry, politics | Tagged boat, calm, lethargy, mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, sea, Simunul Island, soldier, steel, Sulu, wharf | 12 Comments

the waves of sulu

Posted on November 3, 2017 by sandstarsblog

(All photos are courtesy of Harly Limlingan Marcuap of http://www.akrosdayunibers.com) the waves of sulu a boy contemplates the nipa huts beneath the coconut trees as a patch firewoods for the sacrificial pyre and the land heaves beside the waves. … Continue reading →

Posted in collection: mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, photography, poetry | Tagged beach, boat, coconut, collection, Harly Limlingan Marcuap, jolo, mangrove, mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, peek, sea, shores, stilt houses, Sulu, travel advisories, waves, white sand, www.akrosdayunibers.com | 16 Comments

dawn

Posted on October 20, 2017 by sandstarsblog

dawn the causeways rattle under sleepy feet waking to the call to prayer at dawn; winds snake from below the sea as sharp bites to a native reality and the tide gently laps to grace the burdened stilts.