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Tenth Muse

Tenth Muse

 

Nine muses

For the Greeks,

A tenth muse

For Filipinos

And for me

Grace and gift

 

I aspire toward

Invocation

 

If paraluman

Visit and illumine

 

Then I shall, in

Turn, be filled

With art from

 

Philippine spirit

 

I could not

Ask for more

Than far-off

Soul-wind

Breathe on me

 

Word-High July: Welcome!

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

  1. Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
  2. A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
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  5. Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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Vivre (a few poems)

Vivre (a few poems)

 

Law Enforcement

(shootings on all sides)

 

Shootings on all

Sides

 

Why must there

Be sides?—too

Easily, one side

Becomes a bullseye

To the other

 

Many more

Become shooting

Angles in small

Wars that grow

 

Finally consuming

Everyone the way

Wanton wildfire

Ravages Earth

 

Must we choose

One group of

Combatants

 

Better to choose

No side at all

 

So that all

Sides might be

Accessible

 

The law of liberty

Applies here

Deciding, like

Asking, aright

 

Ordained and

Established if

Anew

 

For those who

Mourn today and

Yet live

Tomorrow

 

 

Children’s Hour

 

We poison them in Flint

Kill them in Paris

Sell them in Africa

 

And everywhere

 

We destroy the planet

Of their legacy

And treat them as if

They are

 

Of no matter now

 

The value of children

Traded like commodities

On the moving digital

Board

 

Without them we

Have no worth

 

A couple of minutes

On the doomsday

Clock

 

We’ve given them

We’ve given you

Only seconds

 

 

Mĕn-tzó

 

A Buddhist salutation

To a heart-troubled

People of the

Nanosecond in the

World

 

Transliterated, the

Better message is

 

Go slowly

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My Kaulayaw

My Kaulayaw

(for Rosema)

 

Sister

Brother

Friend

 

Sister to my wounds

And brother to

My zeal,

 

Friend to our needs

In the world

 

This should go

Two ways at least

 

I pray it does

 

Sister- brother-friend

Allow me to live

 

Let me serve you

In this way

 

Word-High July: Welcome!

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

  1. Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
  2. A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
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  5. Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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In Every Death

In Every Death

(terrorism)

 

Before I died

I bathed in blood

Mine and my

Family’s

 

Should I rise

From this with

What clings

To me

 

I shouldn’t think

I’d want to

Live

 

Would you

 

Explosions knocked

Me down in a

Farce of chaotic

Action

 

Absurd to think

There’s any

Sense in

Destroying us

This way

 

Did someone win

I hope not

I hope that we

All lose

 

Why should we

Have to pay in

Blood for someone

Else’s act

 

It’s over for me

Now, all the drama

 

The curtained

Arch falls over

Me

 

I will miss the

Next act of terror

 

Tunneled under

Reality, sans

Sense and any

Sanity to play

 

That is me

And to the actors

This is you

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Marahuyo Palace

Marahuyo Palace

 

Marahuyo Palace

 

Where dreams are

 

And where dreams are

Bound and

Bound to

 

Bound to be

Freed

 

Be,

Dreams

Be free,

Dreams

 

Marahuyo means

(To be) enchanted

 

And marahuyo

Means

 

Are magic

 

Word-High July: Welcome!

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

  1. Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
  2. A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
  3. Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
  4. Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
  5. Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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siping

siping

 

a simple, loving act

intimacy fulfilled

in that we rest

together

 

C L Couch

 

Word-High July: Welcome!

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

  1. Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
  2. A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
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  4. Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
  5. Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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Balintawtaw

Balintawtaw

 

Look me in the eye

 

Balintawtaw

How might

It undulate

 

Do you wave in

Love or fright

 

Attributes that

Can be shared, you

Know:

 

Each evokes

A shaking of

Soul-senses

 

Overcome one

To have the

Other—you decide

 

Then with one

Intent, look the

Other in the eye

 

In balintawtaw

 

Word-High July: Welcome!

 

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

  1. Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
  2. A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
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  4. Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
  5. Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

 

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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Harana

Harana

 

Another word

Of wonder, which

Sounds like

What it is:

 

Harana

 

Imagine its

Long-vowel

Sounds sung

From the

Lover’s mouth

 

And also

Consonance

Leaning into

 

Melody

Romance

 

Seductive

Friendship

Maybe

At last

Turned toward

New intimacy

 

Joy and, yes,

Kilig

 

Pleasures

Sensed and

Danced along

The skin as

If for the

First time

 

Word-High July: Welcome!

 

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

  1. Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
  2. A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
  3. Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
  4. Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
  5. Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

 

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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Takipsilim

Takipsilim

 

Parnassus and

The Elysian Fields

Asgard or Valhalla

 

The keep of the

Great Spirit,

Shangri-La

 

A place, a time

Not day, not night

 

Forever in-between

 

Exotic name that

Is ordinary

In a daily way

 

We make too little

Of the dusk,

Of paradise or heaven

 

But this (for me)

Newly charges

In most ways

 

Takipsilim

 

Few things are

Clear in this

Cob-webbed world

 

But through the

Loving haze of twilight,

 

We can anticipate

The night, looking

Through another

Hazy, maybe

Kilig entry

 

Into day

 

Renewed insight

From the gift

 

A timely word

Of reflective

Time

 

Takipsilim

 

Word-High July: Welcome!

 

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

  1. Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
  2. A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
  3. Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
  4. Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
  5. Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

 

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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