Fear, Faith and Love
“White Lady! White Lady!” my younger sister Christine cried, pointing to an outcropping of rock near the creek outside the gate of our house. I looked at the place she was pointing at and could not...
View ArticleThe Clock and the Rain: Time Will Heal All the Pain
Tic, tac Tic, tac Pitter, patter, pat… I hear those drops again As I sit here in front of my table Telling me again and again That my life’s still stable… Pitter, patter, pat… I imagine those drops...
View ArticleMEDITATION
Beneath the shade of the Acacia tree one summer morn Indian-sat a deep thinker unusual of this world A glance above her head at the bright blue float A look at her side the grasses brown Earth’s...
View ArticleNothing Lost
Along the roads of our life, we meet a lot of people. We experience a lot of trials, a lot of laughter. We shed a lot of tears. We learn to forgive, to let go, to enjoy what we have. We meet someone...
View ArticleOf Losing and Gaining, Of Death and Life
Life on earth is temporary. Everything is temporary. I learned this the hard way. When I was young, I thought everything I had will always be mine…my toys, my clothes, my school books, my friends,...
View ArticleMarch for a Martyr, March for Freedom
It was only in the 1990s when I first saw millions of people marching in the streets and it was only on television during a film-showing. The real, live one happened when I was just five years old and...
View ArticleLUZVIMINDA: Journey of a Filipina
Travelling the roads of a place one has considered her home brings to mind a lot of things. It makes one wonder about the sorrows and joys of the people…their day and night toiling trying to eke out a...
View ArticleHappy Hearts’ Day
Teenage life, they say, is the most exciting period in a person’s life. It is when memories of a happy childhood begin to fade in the distance. The time in a person’s life when she begins her journey...
View ArticleCall for Submissions | Poems and Fiction
The University of the Philippines Department of English and Literature is calling for submissions to New Voices, a two-volume anthology of poetry and fiction by new Filipino authors writing in English....
View ArticleCall for Submission: Ecopoetry
Contributions of poems about nature, species, disasters, environmental justice, and our interrelations with these are now welcome in an anthology of Philippine eco-poetry entitled “Sustaining the...
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