What season I love best?
The answer's easy as can be.
Summer tantalizes with its many luscious charms.
It explodes with abundant love and life.
Summer is my favourite... many reasons why !
AP: 3rd place 2026
It was hitomebore —
florette splintering my heart
until it pulverized
victorious eyes
burning into mine, poppyseeds
bursting into coquelicot corolla
Je ne change point
I fell through the somnolent
stone dais with cinnabar charms,
faithful but blind,
my fears mounting but muted
victims of mise en abyme
as I transition to hedone’s unknown
Je ne change point
Rebels hang off
haught Victorian lips,
their ineffable limerence shimmers
in Andromeda's chocolate cosmos,
promising one day they’ll be found
Words set to music
reach a loftier plane
than naked words
alone
Melody lifting
what’s spoken or sung
to where only
— it can go
(Dreamsleep: January, 2026)
63.
Three Charms of Luz-Vi-Minda Against Spain
She's Luz-Vi-Minda
Priestess of Asia
When incubus harms
She takes out her charms…
Behold! Jose Rizal
Our hero national
Poet, doctor, researcher
Farmer, herder, school-builder
Fought Spaniards with paper and pen
Luzon's charm – noblest of our men!
Behold! Lapu-Lapu!
Defender of Cebu
First terror of invaders
Famed Magellan's death renders
Rammed Spaniards with native bolo
Visayas' charm – quaintest hero!
Behold! Purmassuri!
Awesome Muslim lady
Wise heroine of Sulu
Foreigners cannot subdue
Disturbed Spaniards so tribesmen won
Mindanao's charm – enemies thrown!
-11/27/2011
(Dumarao)
*First Incubus Collection
If your charms are here, my arms are here…
no degrees of separation
between yours and mine, my dear
Voice for your smiling face
Charms--our love to grace,
"No drama" anyway,
Sinners and saints this day,
My heart's still singing,
Lyrics of love are ringing....
No month charms me better than October,
It needs no strong drink to make me sober.
Cool as a cucumber, it brings delight,
And joy as vast as Jupiter's great might.
You bid farewell to September's with cheers,
As you have always done for many years,
Soon November's hue will fade away,
For December's chill too to hold sway.
A breeze of super heated love the ancients called it
At the forth angle trumped up charges bemoan you
Twas a case of of an eagle eating a chic..... cry folly
Cry folly for Roy was as is his usual MO a by passer
How can you let her use you're premises yet no pay..
Are you Roi for real threatened the pistol service Bro
Yes you are our Bro Intelligence son is you're not..
Not uttered as Kaayan and by it a pointed index mark
Where did the fingerlings who abide by fingering... Eh
Leave a Mark that Roi now you have to be roasted..
The wheels of justice grind and groan in the mean time
Co-Optation has never been sur-judged as a justice means
In Esoteric font Roi Fold you're wings.. Let chics Be..
Who said you have to stay in the form of the Eagle
A Leopard you are an African Black Panthre' On My Mark.
Witch in Salem, you see,
Needs spelling, tee hee,
Wizard held another,
Toad was his mother,
Witchy cast charms,
Warts on his arms,
Bald was his head,
Maidens did dread,
Pustules appeared,
Grinning, witch feared!
Each day each night love me
Make me yours, or let me die in your loving arms,
Or kill me
Lay me on earth
To sleep upon, forget the charms,
Come forth
Do not
Forget the terms
Sought
Each day each night love me
To sleep upon, forget the charms
Sought
"Charms"
Just when you think
you’ve worked it all out
the light splits it all apart
a million leagues
into her
you dive, want or not
into her ocean
there the ensconced
bedded siren shell calls
like some holy font
pearls all opening
you dive, want or not
into her
cool and fathomless
treasures contained and hidden
waiting in her
mysterious
Pandora’s box
the deeper sea
in her
calls you into her charms
transfixed
want, or not
mesmerised
Just when you think
you’ve worked it all out
the light splits it all apart
a million leagues
into her
you dive, want or not
Just when you think
you’ve worked it all out
the light splits it all apart
(LadyLabyrinth/2023)
at Christmas, 2023
Your eyes.
The way they shine so brightly,
when you see something that excites you.
Your hair.
The way it flows in the wind so beautifully.
Your lips.
The way they smile so wide when you’re happy.
Your kindness.
You care so much.
It makes me so happy.
You got me attached.
You fooled me with your charms.
You made me fall in love,
now I won’t fall out.
Please wish me well before I go
Before I do you gotta know
The one thing that I never said
I hope and pray you wake up dead
At last the truth I have to tell
You made my life a living hell
I knew the end was coming fast
Each day with you worse than the last
Your attitude and crooked smile
No gratitude just filth and bile
I dread the day you came nearer
Your sour face could crack a mirror
A cold dry touch that makes me twitch
And the temperament of a witch
But no sense getting up in arms
Just time to say farewell to charms
"The night is young. Baby, so are we" is from "Shadows in the Moonlight"
by singer Anne Murry.
On their fifth anniversary,
the couple had a unique night.
They dined by candlelight and then
went ballroom dancing—a delight!
“The night is young and so are we.
You want to take a walk?” he said.
They strolled by many darkened homes.
It seemed most neighbors were in bed.
They passed an older couple’s home,
where shades were closed but light shone through,
revealing waltzing silhouettes.
They gazed at the inspiring view.
A night like this seems magical
for those who spend it in the arms
of those they love, for they have found
their partners have unchanging charms.
Amidst dulcet tones of mid-day
a friendly hum tickles my ear
before rollicking into view
My eyes cavort, my head does sway
I'm led in dance as it draws near
cool in temper and warm in hue
Its beauty boasts in modest May
its curiosity sincere
now where there was one, there are few
A rainbow of colors array
these flying jewels, I endear
we share a smile then bid adieu
Moments of frisson, chill the arm
as a witness to nature's Charm
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