Best Taal Poems

Taal, your angry, many times
Longing to stand your Lake shores
Take me in, absorb me
Luzons love, keep me
Anger no more





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James Andrew Fraser
For 'Nette's 'Somewhere' contest, my...

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TAAL VOLCANO
Free Verse

" Small But Terrible"
That's what many people think of you
More than two weeks ago 
Your reputation was proven true.

Towns and cities were locked...

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Afloat I am, 
The blind horizon spreads to no end.
O river of rivers, 
The queen river,
Flow as you wish, 
Gather silt forever
That on your shores...

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Never could I have imagined where I would find love
In my wildest dreams I'd roam to seek this Angel Dove

Never could I have imagined from...

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Near our village lies Taal Bay
Where tides  of  adolescence curdle--
And quite often, the ripples  mirror
The kind whispers and loud groans
From the blended...

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Writing was our passion a few years ago
Scribing writes of many, themes, topics
Amidst the Soup of our poetry posts
Via a climate cool and so very...

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Gewoonlik is my boundaries sterk 
Word ek assigned deur guidance met a Engels'vlerk
My journey neem langer en my sielsnare word gevleg
My boundaries raak flexible en...

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A safari, in an open jeep with an open mind,
To unravel the secrets of the  Kanha forest reserve,
Midst the tall sal trees, our eyes...

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landscape grand tremor
volcano island’s ash fall*
scenery turns gray...

...when problems shake heart
I turn to God**, my anchor
beautifying wondrous life.**

*Taal Volcano in our country is active.
**Hebrew6:19 Which...

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volcano glowing
nature’s grandeur dominates 
clouds meet fiery smoke...

...declared tourist's fave
attracting marvelously
wondrous Taal volcano*...

...now raging with flames
spewing out toxic ashes
it grievously hurts...

...warned of its great wrath
I...

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One And Thousand


There once more it rises;
Rise with each beat.
Once more it has arose a storm,
A storm so strong can't describe.
Shaping wishes one after another,...

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Jy staan voor my
Die mooiste glimlag
Die reinheid van jou hart
Die skoonheid van jou siel

Die wind waai liggies
Jou hare is in my gesig
En jou wang is...

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Paper Have Not


Cut down an evergreen
Cut up wrapping paper
Paper wrap presents
Paper covered with bows ribbons
Ribbons silks new and old
Ribbons sparkle blue and gold
Gold yellow some...

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ONE:
Is our Near East in Asia? Are Israelis "Asians"?
People from India are called South Asians
The same folk in Caribbean are East Indians!
Fancy that: West Indians...

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(For you're the unknown, I'm unknown too)
I was dancing before
And I'm dancing now
I'll dance with you in every turn
When they become me
And I become you
You'll...

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