December 2011
15 posts
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Paalam (Salin ng Huling Tula ni Rizal)
Paalam, mutyang Bayang iniirog ng araw, Perlas ng Silangang Dagat, naglahong paraiso. Sa iyo na itong buhay kong puno ng lumbay, Na kahit ba naging mas maningning, o mas sariwa, Sa iyo ko pa rin iaalay. Sa gitna ng digmaan, sa init ng labanan, Walang alinlangang mamamatay para sa iyo. Sa lilim man ng punong matatag, sa piling ng laurel o lirio, Sa bitayan man o sa parang, lumalaban man o...
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For What It's Worth
“…Pain comes from the darkness and we call it wisdom. It is pain.” - Randall Jarrell
How does one write about wisdom in the face of so much grief is a question every poet should be ashamed to ask. Meaning, no logic here beyond the aching, meaning, the saying is always easy; the hard part is in meaning. Someone is speaking to himself. Imagine his teeth like...
Anonymous asked: Kael, where do you post your poems now? Could we have a link please? I miss your poems terribly. Also, my sister is asking, when does your first poetry book come out? - Mou, from India. :D
“For every window left
to the ruthlessness of weather,
begging for a draft
...”
– Shards, Mikael de Lara Co
…aaand that’s me, on Spindle (http://spindle.ph/)! Go take a look at the rest of the poem.
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The Books They Gave Me: Capote. →
thebookstheygaveme:
Nessa and I bonded during our junior year of high school over books (we couldn’t keep our noses out of them) and shared dislike of our boring rest-stop of a town (a dozen gas stations and fast food joints split in two by a rushing freeway). Every day on the bus we’d talk about the books we…
“Almost a thousand years later
I am asking the same questions
you did the ones...”
– W.S. Mervin, A Letter to Su T’ung Po (via yesyes)
whenwetalkaboutlove:
INTERVIEWER
And as of now, what do you ask from a story?
HEMPEL
The two things I want are interesting language and genuine feeling. And one other thing: Years and years ago I knew a very wise woman who was tremendously accomplished and who had excelled at many things, a lifetime achievement for anybody else, and I asked what was her goal now? And she didn’t hesitate...
November 2011
11 posts
