I SHOULD KNOW

Why could my mind
not able to capture a simple truth
and live in deception?

I should know now
who I am, what I stand for
a beautiful learning experience!


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To feel hope

When many times I've tried
to live up to my name
hope and to always have hope
in an instant I've lost hope.

To something I have hope for
something I wish a dream
will come true, I lost it
fear I would not hope anymore.

I don't know how to trust
and hope for another time
a second chance makes it difficult
to move on and hope.

I hope that one day I shall regain
the lost hope and feel healed
to hope that I will be whole
hopeful as ever be.

I Can Do It

I am glad I can do stuff

I never thought I could

physically exhausting myself

could be fun and fulfilling

as I work out to lose weight.

It is the will to do more

arrive at something I aspire

to become a different person

it's inner drive 

that makes me say I've done it.

BE TRUE TO SELF

This takes a lot of sincerity
and a good dose of honesty
to be true to oneself.

I cannot force nor fool myself
otherwise I am going against
and resisting my true nature.

Being true to oneself
is accepting the purpose
and destiny of my humble existence.

Looking at the Blessing

I need to consciously see and look
the blessings of everyday
looking back still may be necessary
to count the blessings of each year.

This conscious act allows me to count
and feel the gratitude in my heart
the contentment that overflows
the richness this earth offers us.

New steps

I got a rebound energy to walk 

to be in harmony with the world 

as I make my sensitive new steps 

I breathe the air of hopeful synergy.

New steps to carry on more steps

as I am carried by the speed 

and every pulse beat of my heart

the new steps shall carry me through.

Changing Pattern

I started changing a thought pattern
of one persistent trouble
naming it to be a blessing.

Blessing now I rename
any problem causing anxiety
and affecting me physically.


Changing pattern is my response
a way of coping
and facing life-challenge.

I wish I could

As regrets somehow intertwined

with my daily accomplishments

positive thinking alligns my goal.

I wish I could 

the same person I am

but detachment is necessary.

I wish I could

continue be the same

but growth brings new horizons.

I wish a harmony within

then I could fly high

and be carried by winds.

Come Sing Along

May our journeys continue 

to where our heart belongs

I listen to that voice

that takes me to my home.

Let's come together

and sing this song

that takes us along

a long way to that home.

When that time comes

we shall celebrate

the freedom that frees

to take us home.

Di ba nakakasawa?

Kapag paulit-ulit ang pagtatanong
paulit-ulit na sagot
at palaging ganyan na lamang?

Nakakarindi minsan
kung bakit ang di mo nais mangyari
ang siyang nangyayari?

At ang bagay na gusto mo
at talagang gustong-gusto
ang siyang di makamit?

(isang drama sa buhay lamang ito).

Kapayapaan ng Pagtitiwala

Pagtitiwala sa sarili
sa aking kapwa-tao
lalo na sa lumikha
may dulot na kapayapaan
sa aking pagkatao.

Walang nawawala
walang itinatapon
bagkus ay may hatid
kapayapaan ng buhay
sa mundong ginagalawan.

Kay sarap abutin
lasapin yaring kapayapaan
sa kabila ng kaguluhan
di matitinag ang kalooban
sa tiwalang abot-kamay.

Un Amor Loco

Un amor loco

te das cuenta es necesario

para aprender nuevamente

y amar como nunca amaste.

Un amor loco

te amargas y te endulzas

pero nunca tú caigas

tal vez te apoyaras a crecer.

Un amor loco

te haces sentir muy estupida

te das cuenta es necesario

para aprender amar

y valer esta necesidad humana.

Stopping and Seeing

It takes time to open
and  receive our gifts
the gift of knowing
what word means
stopping and seeing in zen.

In my own experience
of not knowing
not thinking what you know
stopping means cessation
and seeing is contemplation.

Stopping my delusions
and seeing the truth
is quite a mind shaking
spinning and twirling
until I reach the axis.

Always Different

Today is not yesterday

this moment will not be the same

there is difference 

and always be different.

Yet I still need to compare

and expect it will be the same

there is difference 

will always be different.

It's my mundame mind and eyes

that see the sameness 

but there is difference

is always different.

Urging and Surging

When I want to do something
or be someone else
it comes from an urging
a forceful movement
that needs to be responded to.


From time to time
the surging of the creative
and positive energy
open to us the horizon
to become a new person.

My Mom is Smilin'

I saw her smile from out there
looking at us with great fondness
around her, my father
and 2 other siblings.

My mom is smilin' at us
from out there triumphantly
joyously had conquered life
a promise now at hand.

My mom is smilin'
happy where she is
happy where we are
my mom is smilin' at us.




"on the 85th birth anniversary of my mom"

Empty Cup

When my empty cup
is filled with my morning coffee
I feel the warmth
as it reaches my empty stomach.

There is the movement
of pouring and emptying
a satisfaction of life
and the perk of the day.

Life needs to be empty
left to be filled with
what is there inside
that gives the perk of life.

All shall be well

When overcome with anxiety

thinking of what is to come

and our plans seem not to materialize.

When overcome with grief

for the death and loss of loved ones

they occupy a better place than where we are.

When our hopes are gone

and all what we see is an obscurity

All shall be well.

All shall be well, all shall be well.

A promise we hold on

for all shall be shall.

Enough to Live By

Our life is never static in nature
the different movements and responses
give us sufficient data and information
to process and to give us a push
in our desire to grow and be different
we got enough to live by.

We learn our lessons hardly enough
but will not cause our death
it is the dying of something in us
that needs rebirth and regrowth
life is like a bonsai
we do need pruning and manicuring.

Weeding out and taking in
are movements we need to anticipate
and life is a constant learning
constancy in awareness
is a way to reaching out
the self that constantly changes.

I sing a song

In a melodious harmony of notes

I sing a song 

a song I'd like to sing.

It's a song that fills my heart

My ears begin to listen

it is a simple song.

A song I'd like to sing

To all beings 

who made life beautiful.

There's harmony, an integration

a song that lifts up the soul

it is a song I'd like to sing.