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Ecriture Feminine

The Jane Austen Book Club
by Karen Joy Fowler
The Progress of Love
by Alice Munro
The Long Quiet Highway
by Natalie Goldberg :)


Iyo
by Julia Alvarez

February 28, 2009
@
Booksale KCC Gensan

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I write to dance


There are so many lines--
they are all curves
always bending
always flowing
they do not
breathe
and
stop-

their lives inside
the four corners
of the page
are caged-
Align Center
they tremble
like
s c a t t e r e d
d
o
t
s.


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Creative Writing 200a (Thesis Workshop)

Creative Writing Students Batch 2005
with the Literary Giants

with Krisza, Josh & Lyda

@ the
University of the Philippines Mindanao-AVR
October 2008

photos from:
http://wmspace.net/wp/poetry/26566-3rd-creative-writing-200a-workshop.html

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What does it take to find a lost Love? (P, you should watch this movie)


we breathe the same air
my distant star

we have known the story
of Romeo and Juliet
of fairy tales and kisses

crossing the borderlines
of impossibilities for
togetherness

(now, I run
hoping
to reach the
edge of the earth)

there we are-
yet

Who hath seen thee?
Nor hath I felt thy skin,

What do I say,
With you by my side,
I reckon not the distance.


P.s
Hahahaha


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(One) True Love

when I write
I
do not think
of
you

i hate
pain
but
I'm writing
it

you are
my Poetry,
my world of
abstraction-

i do not
tell you everything-
(that's when you
forget to ask)

This is me-

i write everything in
my Poetry,
all the words
the lines
and the curves

yet
it's not my duty

to tell you
(you are not my master-
not even my slave)

my body-
my poetry

i offer these all to you--

(to my
Apollo,
and my
Aphrodite)


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Of chalk dust and gavel

Write those words
(apple,
boy,
cat
and dog)

Wipe those words
(with
eraser or
tissue paper)

Write
and wipe

(Live
To
Die)

There
Is no death
In silence

Go on--
Write everything
From E-Z
(name what's lacking,
Scribble,
Never miss a thing)

Live.
Write.

Until
The judge
pounds
his gavel--

imprisons
You
to death

And to the screaming
Silence.



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Smoke's Soul

I puffed
And I coughed

I coughed
it was tough

It was tough
It was rough

It was rough
And I laughed

I laughed
And I hopped

I hopped
And I stopped

I stopped

And there was a cloud of smoke

Dancing before me

It imitated me:

It coughed,
It laughed
And
It stopped

There was the cigarette butt,
its smoke
and Its soul-
Smoothly vanishing
Undulating toward the absence.

Originally written: November 18, 2008

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P.O.I

A thought is dead
when it is left
unsaid

so better tell it now
what, where
and how

did i put
my thought,
was I caught
dead?

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There is bliss to utter

a red balloon
freed toward the azure-
a dot in the sky

its color,
a momentary joy
darkened

in an instant
the red balloon
vanished

like any other
fleeting
circumstance

It died.
and the color?

the purest
of the azure

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Tiny Star

Tiny Star

for D

There you are,
Shining like an aluminum dust
Brighter than the other’s

You’ve been dangling there
In the doomed sky
Together with your own

I once saw you in my dream
You were distant
But you could hear me talking

I sent my wish eight years ago
I hope it reached you by now
But how? You're light years away

There's no any chance
I could have you

There's no any chance
I could have you back

Now, I'm asking you to stay
(Wishing)
So I could see you
always
Every night,
Among all other stars
As tiny as you-
Shining

in their most
Brightest spark.
I'm wishing for you to stay-
Silent in the dark.

originally written: February 5, 2009

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2009 Creative Writing Workshops





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Frontier

*for Star. Art*

Don't
write like Dickinson

Don't
dance like a ballerina

Don't
cry like a cat

Don't
argue like a lawyer


... stop screaming
you are not a blank page
... stop tiptoeing
you are not a thief
... stop whining
you are not a convict
... stop complaining
you are not a patient

afterall,
Dickinson is not a blank page
a ballerina is not a thief
a cat is not a convict
and most of all,
a
court
is not
a hospital.

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Veering Away

Run by Ann Patchett
50php KCC Gensan's Booksale
February 1, 2009

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