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Untying the Knot


My Poetic Assessment for a Fruitful 2008

January
Birth

A blissful hope,
Sunflowers blossoming-
smile.
(New Beginning)

February
Scarlet Hearts

Love.
A more radical love.
Love.
Radical.
Amore.
( Love, Love and more Love)

March
Reversible

Writing,
Learning,
Yearning
Yearning,
Learning,
Writing
(Ma'am Jhoan's Subject, Poetry 1 requirements)

April
Enduring the pain…
( Still writing ... Summer Class @ UP Diliman)

May
Home

I told her to fetch me at the airport,
I was excited
For I will be going home
And for the main reason
that we will be seeing each other again
after a very long summer break

The night before I left Manila
I sorted out some keepsakes,
I thought of giving her
the only ballerina keychain I saw
at a small tiangge at Baguio
(a smiling ballerina given
by one of her melancholy audience)

It was a total euphoria-
I was so happy that time,
when I arrived at the airport
I looked for her,
Searching
for nothing
She’s always like that
Absent-
But still, I went home-
Alone

“The same Old house,” I told myself
Decorations everywhere, appliances but
none of which was harmony
for Solitude was a perfect company.

I was longing
Like the smiling ballerina I bought
Who’d wish
to make her lonely audience smile
(At least for a while.)
(19th Birthday, Summer Class @ UP Diliman, Baguio Escapade)

June
Dusk

It was dusk-
An Insufficient light
A vanquished endeavor.
(Acad Mode)

July
Persistent enough to Write.
(Thesis)


August
Peridot Blues

It was like getting a lemon
and squeezing it on your wound-
(a painful countenance)
(War...)

September
Sick

still
Under medication,
working on her verses,
Enduring fragments ,
And unuttered syllables
Still
Unfinished business.
Blank sheets of paper,
Dying pen
A relentless hunger to write a twelve-line poem
Ending the only couplet with the word
Still.
(Pain and War, War and Writing, Writing and Pain)

October
Shooting Star

Come and Go
Come and Go
Far away and distant,
You’re an elusive star
Vanishing before my wistful eyes
When will I see you again?
Will you ever come back?
Where art thou?
Where art thou?
(Semestral Break, Thesis, Longing, Lost)

November
Present

Working like a busy ant-
Encountering daily traffic,
Problems and optimism
Just to offer you
the most wonderful gift
You never thought
I was capable of giving--
My basted verses
sealed
with a Kiss
(Gifts, Thoughtfulness, Love and War)

December
Chess

I scheduled the game,
It was the summer of May,
my Month,

I thought
I was privileged to win
(You always want the best for me)
You were very unlikely that time
you wanted a competition,
you played like a God
the master of all things- everything
(as I’ve been telling you)

I breathed to open a Sicilian move
Two of my knights-
on guard
but
you were such a Genius
a hailed virtuoso
you were too clever-

I lost my strongest officials
There were only a few pawns left-
Too gullible to win
I was losing that time

I surrendered
like my captured pieces

I knew I was capable to fight
But I rather gave up
For I knew I was faint enough to fight
in a game I was never accustomed to win.
(War, War, War and Letting Go)


Happy New Year Everyone!




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POEms

Selves
Poems by Philip Booth, 10php

That Would Explain the Violinist
Poems by Sunil Freeman, 15php


@ Booksale Gensan
Photos by Damsel

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Whereabouts II

Longing
*I miss Mickey*
December 16, 2008 @ NOVO Gen San

Fan Fiction
* I love Comics*
Remembering the Old Good Days

December 15, 2008 @ Kristan Bookstore

Refuge
*The best Bookshop ever*
December 14, 2008 @ KCC Mall of Gen San

Photos by Damsel

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Woe-man

Loving A Woman in Two Worlds,
Poems by Robert Bly, 15php



Surface Tension by Meg Dally,15php

@ Booksale Davao (NCCC)
December 9, 2008


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M & M

"It takes two to tango"


Mickey: Please tell the doctor, I'm sick.
Minnie: Really,sick of what?
Mickey: Sick of you! *laughs*
Minnie:



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Longing


The most striking gift I saw
[among all the gifts my sister had received on her 18th bday.]
(A birthday card from Glenn Clark)

envelope

Front Cover****** Content



Maybe because of my Yoyo and Hoops bookmark
I and Krisza bought at NBS SM Davao



Yoyo:Krisza ****** Hoops:Damsel

Photos by Damsel

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The Other

caught in a conundrum
every night,
words haunt him
to let him sleep

his mind
coupling like dogs,lady-and-
lordbugs
reciting all
the legendary and the real

but the images
of towers of ivory forced his mind
to dwell
and lost its innocence-
find no way of forgetting

to forget the words
and to go on without the Other,
only with yourself
are simply two separate sins

you will feel only pain
if you play with your heart
whenever you utter your mind.

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Redemption

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 15php


@ Booksale Davao,
December 5,2008


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Requiem for a Dream


Finally, it meant to speak in tongues
the gift
like a gush of cool broken stalactites
and stalagmites
and heart
and innards
and spring water
in hidden cave
rattled off the top sin after sin

upon the way
for still unflagging interest,
stories relish to stay
and remain assured

open book-
dreaming
on a strand of perfumed hair,

from sleep
it was a singsong voice
that rhymes taught
to be imprisoned in the cave
of the unfamiliar.

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Time


Always beginning sadly
and leave
in the hearing distance of months
I'd wake and slipped away
because to move around
can go back ways

Always beginning anew,
hid them away
because i did not know
that shapes of letters
were enough
to stir anyone's

One-
abandoned,
people deserting us will be missing-
if hardly to remit the face
that keeps every day's
obvious truth of privilege

Convince an ingenuous mathematical formula
for being normal
but of what voice seemed
to be the whirlwind
not remitting another two
and a worth of disinterest
presumed right
of everything

To cheat after all
force people
not only enough
but Enough
death



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Spark



Grandfather said
as if to encompass the white yard,
"This metal for builders
wheels antique fire
for old blue ladies"

He led the metal cutter,
pushed a sheet of blade-
the noise clamp our ears,

Spark.



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Apathy

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, 15php

The Professor by Charlotte Bronte, 15php

Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan, 20php

The Book of Christmas, 10php
(Featured writers:Robert Frost, Charles Dickens,
O. Henry, R.L Stevenson, W. Irving, Lewis Carroll,
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, etc.)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin,15php


@Booksale
Gensan

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When Night is Falling

Open,
Open your eyes,
the night is deep
its silence is howling-
a dark,
angry wolf foraging
in the woods

it is smelled of citrus
sweet and fresh-
a titillating aroma

Open,
Open your eyes
the night is engulfing
it is peppered with quartz
a glint of joy
blossoming

it has the starkest smile-
a badge of twinge
of woes,

of an unhappy
soul
hiding behind
the cloak
of
a dismal hope

but if you
try to kiss
the frost

close your eyes
this time
think
of an ocean
under a starry night
and a starfish hugging the shore

you hear
the waves
slapping the borderline
and the
solace
of the night

thumping
in the somber
tune
of
its own
heartbeat.

Note:
This will be my final poem for 2008 filed under ergo propter hoc.
It's sad but it's me...

Bye for now.

hiding behind the cloak of a dismal hope,
~Damsel

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