231.
My 39th Leaf
Obtained thee from branch
Broken from its trunk
Fallen on the land
From a sturdy tree
“Indian Mango” leaf!
Owned by our neighbor
Gabo family
Doministo too
I'm with our neighbors
Watching vestiges
At three-thirty five
Of dark afternoon
Just after the storm
Weaker winds blowing
Fewer rains dropping
In front of the house
Of Dudoy Etic
Other side road
On way to river
From a branch fallen
Great devastation
Brought by a typhoon
A super typhoon
Labelled “Yolanda”
Marked in history!
-11/08/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
55.
My 11th Leaf
Rended thee from herb
Released from thy curb
Curative floral
Sure medicinal
“Kalamantigue”!
Our neighbor nearest
Uncle for me best
Tatay's next brother
To me godfather
Nice Dudoy Etic
This night near nine, ten
This day – eleven
This month – eleven
This year - eleven
Brown-out, full moon bright
Dudoy Etic's fence
Outside adjacence
Rare luminescence
Utter silence
Almost front gate's door
Enroll I finish
MAT English
Salingsing polish
Begin fitness wish
Saw Iglot first last!
-11/11/2011
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
I carried two shillings, one for each eye,
For my love was a dying soul.
When she left I kissed her goodbye -
Covered her eyes to soften death's toll.
2-28-20
Contest: Poe Etic Verse
Sponsor: Charles Messina
INEVITABLE
New life appears welcoming childhood
meeting arrogant youth merging to serene seniority
or to face abrupt end at any time.
From womb to tomb leaving obituary.c
02/27/20
Second Place
'Poe-etic Verse' Contest by charles messina
Once upon a Monday manic morning I awoke in panic,
Panic with foreboding wrapped, into a world of troubles trapped,
I felt distinctly I’d been slapped, and from my bed of warmth been torn,
My eyes went wide, I cried and cried, that manic morn when I was born.
Submitted February 25, 2020 for the "Poe-etic Verse" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Charles Messina.
Funeral bells call with somber tone
Pulling at my broken heart
Angels implore she should never go alone
Precious love and I will never part
Poe-etic Verse Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Charles Messina
2/24/2020
It was more than a decade ago...
Mom by faith was transported to God's celestial kingdom
now, she's joined by beloved Dad in blissful fellowship
awaiting loved ones for an eternal reunion midst worship* of grateful praise.
*Revelation 15:4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
February 24, 2020
2nd place, "Poe-etic Verse" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Charles Messina; judged on 3/2/2020.
Your seraphic glow in the yearning light
Makes for opaque me the second shadow
Entwined with mine two seamlessly unite
Come, let’s enfold lattice of dew on meadow.
February 23, 2020
Contest : Poe-Etic Verse
Sponsor : Charles Messina
Ev’ry child born soon grows to taste the good and bad of life,
and whether fortune smiles on him or her – ev’ry child soon learns
that obligations likely follow. ‘Tis likely they will take a husband or a wife.
On offspring they oft times pin their dreams unrealized. The world still turns.
Feb 22, 2020 for charles messina's Poe-Etic Verse Poetry Contest
Oh! That this rose be a symbol of love
perfect it blooms- your beauty it holds
your perfumed scent in the fragrance of
and lo theses thorns pierce just as bold
February 22, 2020
Poe-etic poetry contest
Sponsored by Charles Messina
Life is more than bland existence
Let thy spark not fade away,
Meet ennui with firm resistance
Thank the Lord and seize the day.
22.02.20
Poe-Etic Verse Poetry Contest : sponsored by Charles Messina
Nebulous angels vacant worth
Foresee no fortunes adulate
Dawn's desecrated, faithless birth
Supine mother to stillborn fate
2/21/20
For 'Poe-etic Verse' contest
sponsor: charles messina
Shared 2nd Place
On pathways that lead to the dungeons of Hades
Macabre black ravens feast on decaying corpses
Through cracks in the wall see the dancing flames
Hear blood curdling screams of the damned within.
Written 20th February 2020
For Poe-etic Verse Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Charles Messina
Hello life, and welcome to my world I invite you to stay here as long as you can To do so, you must fight sickness and ignorance, just to name two. Even so, your time will come to an end.
021920PoSpCtest, Poe-Etic Verse, Charles Messina
4-lined verse. Chosen theme: Life
Begone, thou creature hovering o’er my door
Your ebony feathers evoke my anger
My dear Lenore was swept up in your wings
Nevermore to share her love with me
February 19, 2020
For Charles Messina’s “Poe-etic” verse contest
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