IGUANA, ATBP.

Iguana     

Sa biglang pagsulpot ng iyong ulo

At sabay hatak sa katawan

Isang tili ng pagkagulat

Sapat na para ikaw´y tumakbo.

Usa      

Mahinhin at mapupungay na mata

Malalim na pakikipag-ugnayan

Marahan na kilos

Maamo subalit mailap rin.

    
Ibon

Malaya ang iyong paglipad

Habang umaawit at umiindak

Sa damyo ng bawat hangin

Kalayaan at kaligayahan ay hatid.

Paru-paro     
Iba`t-ibang kulay
May dalang balita
galak at lumbay
Sa kanyang pagbisita.

SAYING GOODBYES

Each season of life,

spring, summer, winter and fall

represents and offers
beginnings and endings.


Welcome to the crisp mornings 

with its twittering birds

singing praises and 

wishing one`s well-being.

Seeds beginning

Flowers thanking

Fruit filling

Plant dying.

Sun setting

towards the night

fading light

glittering stars.

Saying goodbyes to familiarities

and routines of life

welcoming new sights

starting anew.

CROSS ROADS

Have you ever been on a crossroad of life?

When questions remain as questions

and unanswered but draggingly one needs to move on.

I have come across different crossroads in life.
at different periods in time
that pose a difficult challenge to continue on.


Be it on the right or left section of the road
we still reach the end of life`s destination
at which one could say... I have reached my goal.


The "writing on the wall" could still remain perplexed
as change can happen 
and it can occur at any given time.


Crossing the roads need a reflection
a pause - to relish, look and see around 
breathe in and breathe out the energy giving.


Life giving forces that pulls us out
from death onto life,
from our sorrows into joys.

SPRING TIME

                   

As I throd the walk path at Howard every day,
awareness of the self comes forth

like a bud of flower showing its beauty.

It is not easy, but I try to

finishing two, three, four rounds 

are but accomplishments.

Witness to silent and deep breath

grass on the grounds with its morning dew

green vast of land with lush vegetation.

Morning sun, trucks and cars passing by

co-walkers, co-journeyers of that 2.5 kilometers long walk path.

animating me to do my 6.2 mile walk everyday.,

Loud prayers and silent prayers of the heart

said loudly and screaming at times 

to the God who resides in my heart.

Was freeing, was moving, was consoling

at times so despairing, tiresome and frustrating.

How will I sustain praying while walking?

I did, I can do.  Praying is walking.

Walking is praying.

From there comes prayer`s answer.

Walking is a journey to self.

A journey of a soul reaching out to the true self.

True self that can hurt but liberate.

Happiness lies on the truth.

Truth brings freedom.

Freedom is walking the truth.

ONDOY in Manila

POEMS ARE SONGS OF THE HEART AND SOUL.

                        

What a deluge Ondoy had for the Filipinos.

I was struck with sadness, anxiety and helplessness.

My ears and eyes were fixed on the videos, links, and feeds

in the process, discovered to pop out radio DZBB of gmanews.tv.

To fill up the space from mission to home.

Prayers . . . endless prayers and hopes as armor

Good bayanihan spirit moved heaven and earth.

Clearing the debris, mud, garbage and burying the dead.

Going back to normalcy

Is a struggle witnessed by the world.

I had water and floods appeared in my dream.

Talked to one señora about an experience of one heavy rain

and denuded that part of Quezon City.

Mentioned to her that the place I was born as told by my mother

If ever flooded, Manila will be submerged in water.

A week later, Ondoy´s tragedy happened in Manila.

Left me a void and a reflection on suffering.

Why can conversations around pouring rain

and why a dream of water and flood

will come true after 40 years?  What a timing?                                

Many experiences to learn from Ondoy,

but more challenges for us as a nation and as one world.

To move fast in order to survive catastrophes.                             

Make initiatives to heal the earth.

And for us men and women - to unite to save our planet.

LETTER TO FRIENDS AND READERS

Dear Friends and Readers,

I want to share with you these poems, prayers, song, quotations and journal that I composed and written in the span of 25 years.

Hope you enjoy reading them.

Blessings and peace in God.

Esperanza