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Dog

Dog

 

Maybe we invented

You, brought you

Inside

 

Wolves bark in

Packs for their own

Reasons—do you

Still know?

 

You are fur and teeth

 

And if we carve

Them down, you

Still have claws

In canine thinking

 

In taming you, we

Take ownership

 

When we don’t, we

Lie to you

 

And God and will

Need a better answer

Than Cain gave

For a sibling, also

Abandoned

 

But there can be

Love in what we do,

 

And you improve us

 

Family is larger,

Home fuller, our

Blood chemistry is

Better when we

Pet you

 

(Hence the virtue in

The name)

 

Our company for all

Friends, your

Impulses toward

 

Concern and toward

Protection

 

These guard us—

And there’s a human

Promise in what we

Owe you

 

 

Parvo and

http://abc27.com/2016/07/06/libre-the-puppy-continues-fight-for-his-life/

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Sitting on Cats

Sitting on Cats

 

My week’s occupation

Done with lack of grace

 

They look at me indifferently

As I feed and water, pet

And play, even attempt

 

To impose medicine

Within one’s tiny mouth

 

We make it through—I

Would not give myself a

Good grade for care, though

Not for lack of

 

Trying

 

They came to me and then

Stayed away: It’s only you;

Feed us, check the litter

Box,

 

And leave

 

But one day, despite ourselves,

I found each cat and got

Down

 

Eye-to-eye

 

Looking at one while

Scratching behind the

Ears (the cat’s) and simply

Lying on the floor

 

So we could see each other

 

For the second (though

Equal among firsts),

There was something close

By to play with (besides

My heart-strings) and, what

Do you know,

 

We played

 

I received an electronic

Missive telling me my

Service was done—now

 

True cat-caring can

Commence without me

 

With the right ones at home

 

Well, we had a heat wave,

Didn’t we—which might

Explicate in part

 

Royal lethargy

 

And, if asked again

(Depending on the report

Received by parents),

I’ll prostrate myself in

 

Service

 

To liege-lords ruling their

Split-level citadel

 

Now off to learn something

About post-modern dogs

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Pagsamo

Pagsamo

 

Beggars can’t be choosers

If wishes were horses, then

Beggars would ride

 

Don’t look a gift-horse in

Its mouth

 

So we should beg for mouthy

Horses

 

And for wishes

 

I think I’ve begged, when I’ve

Been scared the most

 

I begged for life—I begged

For life with you

 

I begged more than once

For more than one

 

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.

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Silakbo!

Silakbo!

 

I’m hurt!

I’m sad!

I’m fine, thank you!

Stop asking!

 

I’m in love!

I hate you!

I got the job!

I’m so confused!

Stop asking!

 

I’m lonely!

It hurts!

You’re my friend!

Why have you

stopped asking!

 

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.
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10

muni-muni

muni-muni

 

a word of such

slow spice, we

say it twice

(sorry, maybe

a better pun

for English)

 

wondrous,

though, to have

a word unfolded

that in the

saying is its

process

 

savor the depth

of thinking

we can go

 

muni-muni

 

we enter a bell

to dive into

an ocean of

insight and

relation

 

we go deeper in

to move further on

 

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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18

Observatory

Observatory

 

To the north

And maybe through

An ozone layer

 

They peer into

Convex-concave

Holes to note

 

In quiet, confident

Accented tones

Of practice

And of speech

 

Jupiter disappears

Then returns

Again to view

 

And while

Watching another

Galaxy, discoveries

Follow with small

Gasps

 

This is an age

Of receiving

Messages of

Broadcasts,

Messages of

Design—they

 

Transmit, and

Now we can look

And glimpse

Moments of

Creation

 

Circles

On a page

 

From one who

Owns the book

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Kalinaw

Kalinaw

 

Onomatopoeia

 

Long-vowel

Sounds (with

Skip of an i in

Between),

 

K to begin

Consonant-

Firm,

L then

N to give

Brief space,

Ending in

W

 

Even of

Silence—simply

To look or

Use another

Sense—the

Word evokes

Feeling and

Presence

 

Believe

Words have

Power

 

They do

 

Find quiet

 

Say and enter

An utterance,

 

Door to a

Place

 

Inside

You’ll know

 

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.
  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!

5

Gunita

Gunita

 

Remembrance

Until it might

Slip away,

 

Tripped not on

Forgetfulness

But rather

On the path to

Now

 

Then matters

Again,

 

A crystal

Record;

 

But while you

And I are here

 

Memory is

Present for the

Present

 

Even if we

Stumble over

Nostalgia

In our steps to

The sweetness of

This time

 

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.
  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!

10

Bread and Stone

Bread and Stone

 

All that’s left

Is the heel of the

Rye bread loaf

And a small pile of

Caraway seeds

(Inside) made

When I lift

The bag

 

Bread and bitter herbs

I could be

A Celtic sin-eater

 

A job from long ago

In smaller, well-defined

Communities—and

For their sake

 

The task has left us,

While the cause

For eating and then

Running out the

One fed

Remains

 

Bitterness

Of sin—perhaps

Given the time

And hard hearts—

 

We

Should tear off

A bit of bread

To take with

Zealous spice

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