Best Andres Poems
Is freedom given? Is freedom taken?
Should San Andres sit, sit like the beggar?
Beg for freedom, beg to get better,
Or defy the oppressor, and our soul deliver.
Take your freedom, take it now!
For only beggars have no choice,
But we not beggars, we not dumb,
Take your freedom, take it now.
Take your freedom, it will be rough,
Speak it , walk it, sing it loud,
At freedom table, sit and chow,
Take your freedom, make it known.
Take your freedom, take it now!
With prison jail, chain and bars,
Just but few steps, from freedom hall,
Take your freedom, take it all.
Take your freedom, take it all!
Some may say, we will not thrive,
The sea the land blessed, God will provide,
Take your freedom, take it boy!
Take your freedom, take your land!
No more the oppressor, chain our hands,
Nicaragua or Colombia, none we want,
Take your freedom, take it man.
If take not freedom, but candy bars,
Come with offers, low wages brought,
And lies repeated, believe them all,
You’re still slave minded, get freedom y’all.
Take your freedom, and life preserve,
Endure the hardship, with death sentence roam,
Like great Mandela, in South Africa endured,
Take your freedom, free those who’ll come.
Take your freedom, from oppressors hand,
Nicaragua Colombia, distress our land,
Are both slave drivers, from Spain they learned,
Take your freedom, it’s God’s command.
Your little one is on her way
To change your world from night to day
To show you how to laugh and play
Your little one is on her way
Your little one will bring delight
She’ll keep you up all through the night
She'll cry then coo till morning light
Your little one will bring delight
Your little one will bring you joy
You thought at first she’d be a boy
She’ll make her Dad her little toy
Your little one will bring you joy
Your little one will bring you love
She’s sent to you from up above
She'll bring you peace, this Heaven’s Dove
Your little one will bring you love
Your little one is God’s own child
On both of you, heaven has smiled
So teach her to be meek and mild
Your little one is God’s own child
Eileen Manassian
I wrote this poem this morning and read it at a baby shower for Naty Acuna, a good friend of mine from Argentina. Andres, her husband, is the University chaplain and men's dean. Naty is the women's dean. We are blessed to have them at Middle East University. They have come as missionaries. Yes, they will have a baby girl. They will name her Emma. :)
The famous guitarist Segovia
Was able to strum high and lowvya
With acclaim; so he did
Till his death in Madrid—
And his records continue to moveya.
July 18, 2019
Frankie
Human, Virago, Poet, Dreamer
Mothers Raisha Therese and Joaquin Andres
Lover of butterflies, opals and tulips
Who feels loneliness, strength and hope
Who fears failure, heights and drowning
Who would like to see Europe, heaven and recognition
Resident of Manila, Philippines
Torrelavega
Isaac Albéniz's Asturias, Three Versions, Three Instruments
I
By Andres SEGOVIA, guitar, 2006
Man lopes up mast-pole
Man lopes up mast-pole
Man lopes up mast-pole
And finds no maiden fair
Who mimes his Asturian air
II
By Andronicus, piano version
Man bikes up mountain
Man bikes up mountain
Man bikes up mountain
And espies masts far from there
Biscay Basques back with wares rare
III
By Florin Croitoru, violin-solo
Man runs up belfry
Man runs up belfry
Man runs up belfry
To count sinners in every square
Come to keep their bosoms bare
© T. Wignesan - Paris, 2018
Natalia Andrea Larranaga Fajardo
Here lies one who died pitifully
She would have sought anonymity,
But publicity stole away her privacy
She threw herself off a ship at sea.
Trying to salvage her favorite flip-flops
And got sucked into the vessel’s props.
Written December 4, 2022
[as reported by San Andres, Colombia
newspaper on November 27, 2022]
Oh and after all this time I've known you
it never did cross my mind that you could be
the one for me, was it Jupiter or was it Venus
that has opened the door to love now after
all this time whoa and it's OVERPOWERING
so intense and OVERPOWERING...
Oh and in the days to come I know desire
is gonna burn, burn hotter than the summer sun
fire to fire, lover to lover and that's a force
to reckon with kinda like that of Niagara Falls
the San Andres and Mount Saint Helens
all put together oh so intense and oh so
very OVERPOWERING...
Oh and just like lightning and thunder
it is the perfect storm of the heart yes
for the very presence of you is so
electrifying and when we kiss whoa
the sparks fly, well I swear I have never
felt so alive and whoa It's intense and
so damn OVERPOWERING...
Oh and in the days to come I know desire
is gonna burn, burn hotter than the summer
fire to fire, lover to lover and that's a force
to reckon with kinda like that of Niagara Falls
the San Andres and Mount Saint Helens
all put together oh so intense and oh so
very OVERPOWERING...
just like lightning and thunder...
it is the perfect storm of the heart...
oh so intense and oh so, so
OVERPOWERING!
Oh and after all this time I've known you
it never did cross my mind that you could be
the one for me, was it Jupiter or was it Venus
that has opened the door to love now after
all this time whoa and it's OVERPOWERING
so intense and OVERPOWERING...
Oh and in the days to come I know desire
is gonna burn, burn hotter than the summer sun
fire to fire, lover to lover and that's a force
to reckon with kinda like that of Niagara Falls
the San Andres and Mount Saint Helens
all put together oh so intense and oh so
very OVERPOWERING...
Oh and just like lightning and thunder
it is the perfect storm of the heart yes
for the very presence of you is so
electrifying and when we kiss whoa
the sparks fly, well I swear I have never
felt so alive and whoa It's intense and
so damn OVERPOWERING...
Oh and in the days to come I know desire
is gonna burn, burn hotter than the summer
fire to fire, lover to lover and that's a force
to reckon with kinda like that of Niagara Falls
the San Andres and Mount Saint Helens
all put together oh so intense and oh so
very OVERPOWERING...
just like lightning and thunder...
it is the perfect storm of the heart...
oh so intense and oh so, so
OVERPOWERING!
N-ame
Y-ields
M-eaningful
F-ine
A-crostic
A-s
N-ice
D-elight
R-elieves
E-motional
S-orrow
Topic: Birthday of Nymfa R. Andres (July 17)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
In Andres City where my feet grew up
Old street lamps draped nights gently flicking,
I trace childhood with pangs of reminiscences
Where shadow games turned into flamed delight:
Strange, guava trees now ripped by huge skylines--
And Manila founts with blooming shrubs...gone?
I recall pastimes deigned for carousal
Mimicking summers of Roxas Bay's glow.
Etching the ancient plaza of teenage bliss
My shoes roam, this scene now a memory;
Trimmed with fiestas-- folk dances I rerun,
Embracing the girl and young adult in me.
I look and absorb, for the moon will blush
Never exactly as it hangs fair tonight...
And though my heart sinks, it will not forget
Each moment which lives within--ever graced!
9th Peace Premiere
It sure was fun to write these
Each and every day
Nine hundred posts here not for you
That's quite a few I'd say
"Then who", you'd ask, "was meant to be
The subject of all these?
Andres, were they really for
Some lady overseas?"
And I would say to you, "My dear,
For her they were indeed!
Now tell me, do you like it living
There on Lake Annecy?"
As long as ink is in my pen
I'll write bouquets galore
And post them for you while you sleep
"Bonjour, mon amour"
I wish that you could read these
Like other people do
But you don't know these poems exist
You haven't any clue
See Andres has a penname
Who writes quite differently
Unlike the poems Andres writes
He writes cathartically
He keeps these poems from your eyes
So you won't have to know
How much sometimes he's hurting
But cannot tell you so
His longing gets expressed in rhymes
In ways you can't know of
What happened though was not a crime
He simply fell in love
The sweetest voice I ever heard
Belongs to you, pretty Bluebird
Someday will you sing for me?
My name sung to a melody
That you make up, one all your own
That's just for me and me alone
Vanilla rose would be its scent
The Kiss its art equivalent
If you do, through happy tears
I'll love you for a thousand years
And yours I'll be until the day
My final breath takes me away
D-espite trials, let love stay alive,
A-llowing it to make it through;
B-e faithful and devoted,
O-beying God who orders
Y-ou.
&
N-ever go separate ways,
Y-ou must be united to survive;
M-arriage is created by God,
F-orever let love stay
A-live.
Topic: Anniversary of Daboy & Nymfa Andres (March 22)
R-equired
H-ygiene
E-rases
A-trocious
A-ilment
N-eatly
D-efeating
R-abid
E-pidemic's
S-pread
Topic: Birthday of Rhea L. Andres (May 13)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic