THE SELFISH ACTS

Sinulat ni: Therese Carmel

in all the letters
i had been holding on
and making it a simple yet deep words and writing into a piece
from the things i am feeling
to the things i perceive in my reality my consciousness alters;
that the mind reads from the eye
sand to the letters to the stroke of keyboard it writes

to all that
one thing i realized
yes selfish as what others in here might think of
or could read of

its selfish acts of my own sightings
wherein i write it into a symbolist terms
which i could only feel by what i would put on ah selfish love is
and pardon me with all that i have posted.

kati

Sinulat ni: melton

"wara ka mutang!
"tatak sa isipan

pero sa init ng pawis
biglang umulan
naupo, nag-isip
ano ang kahulugan?

simulan?
paalam?
o walang hanggan?

umatras?
sumuko?
o sundin na lamang?

kinuha ang lapis
na walang pakialam

lahat ay papel
akyatin ang hagdan...

PRIDE

Sinulat ni: annakris

The shadow is back
Trying to peek at the artificial light
Guess it was never far
Only cast aside
For no one dares to stare it in the face
And no one dares to kill it
Now it has found its courage
Called the light’s bluff
Sees the flicker behind the artificial glow
And slowly
The flicker became part of the shadow
Part of the shadow’s talons
Slowly...

It killed the light.

In Lieu of a Heartbreak Song

Sinulat ni: Antonio

In lieu of a heartbreak song I wrote a poem...matagal tagal din... At oo...true story to... Broken hearted na naman po ako...Sheesh...

In Lieu of A Heart Break Song
How do I mourn you properly?
Do I need to don night's garments
To conceal a deeper darkness
In my vain search for your shadow?
Do I faithfully keep vigil
Over the casket of longing?
Burn candles and recite requiems
While the stars drop dead one by one?
Shall I commit you to the earth
With no bother for epitaphs?
Or reduce to ashes instead
To fill an empty and cold urn?
I'll forever mourn you instead,
By the smiles I call forth rains with,
By every sigh masked as breathing
And the nifty phrase

"moving on".

Appendectomy

Sinulat ni: Antonio

Sosyal yata ang nasawing pag ibig na to.
English ang lumalabas na luha...
sana last na to...
ayokong na oobjectify sya eh...
anyhoot...
Appendectomy
Uppend-deck-to-me
They made an incision on the abdomen,
To take out the offending organ.
Most likely, because it is inflamed,
Or worse,
it could be ruptured.
It's just a minor surgery,
really,
Medical advancements ensured.
It has to be done quickly,
though.
Quicker than you could say, sepsis.
Then they stitched or stapled up nicely,
Now all that needs to be done is recover.
What was taken would never be missed.
They are sure,
life could go on without it.
Despite the breakthroughs,
they still cant say,
If this organ is needed or not.
It all sounds like a relationship to me.
I just wonder if they took out your heart too.

The Pink Beauty

Sinulat ni: Therese Carmel
she sways to the lines
as i walks on by
with the music in my eyes
i hear her words little slowly
swaying
smelling
now it was on my arms
feeling like writing and the leaf of brows
were flowing slowly to my sight
it was swaying
and again i tried to look deeper
slowly
without any hesitations
i was wondering of her
that pink lining?
i do not know
for she may be gone somewhere
out where those of my eyes cannot be seen
like a simple grasp of her smell from that a smell
of a tree
a brown leaf from a tree
keeps floating until it ended up to my own sightings
there it ended
to a narrow shed
where those light from the story
it pictures out an end
for the pink beauty.

"Ode to a Family

Sinulat ni: Therese Carmel
Minsan sa padel tayo ay nagsumpaan
Na kahit anong hirap walang iwanan,walang atrasan....
pinatibay ng padel and dating loob at damdaming malambot
Natutong lumaban at sa mundo ay sumubok
basta tayo ay magkasama walang makakapagpabagsak...
basta't tayo'y kumpleto walang puwedeng tumapak....
Magtulungan hanggang sa dulo
ito ang pangako sa padel natin binitawan,
maraming beses na nawalan ng kaibigan
pero kahit kailan hindi pa rin nila kayang pabagsakin....
Nagsama sama tayo at parang harina
kaupo tayo sa trono....
pero dahil sa batas ng padel
magpapakumbaba pa rin tayo...
tumulong sa kapwa at paglaban ang tama
ito ang batas na sa harap ng padel ay ating ginawa....
Marami mang nagtangka at umalipusta,
nagtulong tulong pa sila pero lahat
sila walang nagawa....
Tulad tayo ng padel,
Matigas at matibay hindi mababali at hindi mapapawi...
Sabihin man nila para tayong puno ang dahon ay unti unti nalalanta at natutuyo..
balang araw din ang puno
tatanda at magiging marupok...
Pero hindi tayo isang papel
na sa isang pag nilagay sa apoy ay biglang natutupok...
kumunti man pero kailanman hindi maglalaho...
KInapootan ng iilan, pero tayo ay minahal ng karamihan,
may batas na pinaglalaban kaya
nirerespeto tayo kahit na ng ating kalaban.... ...