She staggered, leaned on the arm clinically offered The hospital smell made her retch She felt as if her air had been cut off Swooning her head swam into darkness Strong arms lifted her up Gentle hands undressed her Careful eyes injected her She slept She awoke Where was John, not there beside her Where [...]

WHENE’ER thy wandering footstep bends Its pathway to the Hermit tree, Among its cordial band of friends, Sweet Mary! wilt thou number me? Though all too few the hours have roll’d That saw the stranger linger here, In memory’s volume let them hold One little spot to friendship dear. I oft have thought how sweet [...]

Filipinos abroad working for their family While sharing in the growth of the country Are often called the “makabagong bayani” With their immense help in the economy. Even to my own and ever dearest family You’re family is indeed our own bayani For the kindness you’ve shared unselfishly Helped us a lot in the needs [...]

You’re the one I’ve been looking for You’re my soul’s questions answered You’re my favorite mistake You’re my favorite failure She’s away and I reach for the phone The memory, so hard to own And I tear it all to pieces, just like the rest But she’s waiting for me at the end And each [...]

Born in the early nineteen twenties and in the mid nineteen eighties he passed away A poetic legend in his lifetime and his legend lives today Phillip Larkin the hero of many a Literary Don The poet is at peace but his verse living on. Phillip Larkin from Coventry few greater than he Though some [...]

free verse A dreadful assault dulled their sense of sympathy and love walked away two times… selfish trumped humane. That beast prejudice, clearly displayed in neglect to one accustomed to it, yet mercy moved him. Bandages, ointment a vital ride to the inn full payment for care followed a night of concern. Want eternal life? [...]

I pity them those children of the street They eat the food that dogs refuse to eat From trash bins food people have thrown away Half eaten burgers that smell of decay. Poor hungry souls they live in poverty But they need more far more than sympathy Their health perhaps damaged beyond repair Compared to [...]

FOLLOW your saint, follow with accents sweet! Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet! There, wrapt in cloud of sorrow, pity move, And tell the ravisher of my soul I perish for her love: But if she scorns my never-ceasing pain, Then burst with sighing in her sight, and ne’er return again! All [...]

Silent Whispers, Immobile. Please Confuse Me, With What is Normal. Crying and Sobbing, Looking Distorted. Please No Sympathy, Make it Retorted. Sawing Away, At My Own Sanity. Please Don’t Stop This, Because It’s All New To Me. That Void That Was Empty, Seems to be Filled. The Voice That I Hear is Not of The [...]

under the cloak of night’s dark cover tip toed and slithy toed my secreted lover trying to run without being seen, wearing his worthy night’s disguise past the all seeing people with their all seeing prying eyes if to be found in my arms oh how he would die his life for my love he [...]