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10 Meron si Jose Radin 5:
Excellences
Si Jose Radin ay may "Excellences"
Kahit may mga hindrances
Champion sa Quiz Bee
Noong nasa Elementary
Champion sa Extempo
Noong Highschool nito
Champion sa Tula
Noong nasa Tertiarya
Consistent sa pagiging Champion
Salamat sa Dios na Panginoon.
-10/05/2025
(Dumarao)
*10 Meron si Jose Radin
I know for certain that memory’s a virus
We’re susceptible to in varying degrees
Infecting some, randomly chosen, like us
Memory drifts in on a gentle breeze
I’m switched to the channels of subtle perception
It’s due to the memory my life carries on
I flick through most precious of my recollections
They’ve been given to me until I shall be gone
Then I’ll be removed to the isle of the dead
There I’ll meet you, thanks to our memories
Something will be missing, though it must be like that
After long separations and many calls missed
But I reckon, subconsciously we’ll reconcile
With the loss of those lovely details, for we managed
To save some of them in our favorite style
Aren’t we also the details that time couldn’t damage?
Remember we gazed upon the green hills
From your bedroom window with breathtaking view
In our case they’ve been grinding too fast, those fab mills
So we’re not that exceedingly small to come through
Many trials and hindrances, daily calamities
All those stormy Mondays and Sundays alone
Here we’re bound to wait now, among the tall cypresses
For the ferry to moor, to deliver us home.
Logic Observes
Logic is a train of coherence and thoughts.
A line of Justice, reasoning one
Understands well analysis.
Logic has to make inner peace with
Self of one's past in arrangement to grow.
Logic faced numerous disappointments
In the stages of time.
Experiences are logic's beneficial and a
Wise teacher.
Logic continuously observes, preserves,
Protects oneself from hindrances.
Logic is is a personal life net evoking
Oneself to safely remain afloat poles
Apart from water.
On the other hand the complexities of
Life logic observes
35.
I'm a Phoenix
I'm a Phoenix who melts in demise
From the ashes of my past I shall arise
I shall witness happily
The morning sun's new glory
I shall rise up from my feet
With a courageous heartbeat
I shall spread out my wings wide
And set all hindrances aside
And I shall make them see
That there's a radiant hope in me.
I'm a Phoenix, I'm a Phoenix
You shall see!
-sometime in 12/2009 – 1/2010
(Dumarao & Roxas City)
*a song to inspire self
‘You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today’ — Abraham Lincoln
The seed sown today to sprout tomorrow.
Try to build future nurturing present.
Life is a performance to act solo ,
Prepare now, tomorrow you won’t lament.
Your life is your responsibility
Dream and dream till dream may come to be true
Yet there’s a question on ability.
Future shows result what you can do now.
Future will just bring the consequences
of all your activities at present .
You must overcome all present hindrances,
so that in future you might mot repent.
To start a new venture , you must think deep.
It’s well known :‘as you sow, so shall you reap.’
May my love in total longevity
My Lord, rush to thee, rush to thee, rush to thee
May my deepest longing soaring high
My Lord , finds your way, knowing thee, knowing thee, knowing thee
My mind, may respond in time whence , the call will prevail
wherever, however, and whenever, to answer yours , so it will
eradicate hindrances along the way, to ease more and more to be
My Lord,humbling myself, to long for thee, to long for thee, to long for thee
The meager plate of this lowly world, an outsider
May end this time, being decisive a subtle time traveler
My mind may blossom in privacy , in solitude , serene and submissive
My Lord, With your gifted one, your gifted one, your gifted one to receive.
My friend, my innermost yearning of my shrine , where there is serenity
beauty thrives there in life, in blossoming so to be
May the flight of the song seek thy harmony to belong
an interlocking verse to your song, humming for so long, for so long, for so long.
Anything that is not right
See to it to end this year
Start with a good step to freedom
Work in abundance in the heart
Train your mind in the way for wisdom
Learn from instructions of Elders
Condition your body and start running
Let God be your guide and your rudder
Prepare your heart for the gospel of peace
Obey the instinct of the Bishop of your soul
Life is a long way lackadaisical journey
So many stop, curve, and a long dash energy
It takes easy alone running without baggage
It takes happiness carrying baggage with love
Freedom is slavery without hindrances in going
Victory awaits for those who love persistence
Your going has obstacles and stumbling blocks
Don't cower in fear, rather overcome hindrances
Life is like that, there are nights, there are days
The sweet things every sunrise, there is sunset
Be constant in your desire to accomplish things
Never end the day working nothing or idle
Life is measured in terms of achievement
For at end of the day, life so tiring but gay
When the body take its meal, inert lay to rest
Eyes close in the night not to forget to pray.
Zenith of perfection is the aim of my existence.
My pilgrimage towards this, I know, is my persistence.
I align my senses like a predator towards prey.
My physique and psyche are synthesised in every way.
The social fibre in me, like thread in linen, is knit.
Doesn't the quiver of optimism endlessly transmit?
I dig the mines of cores of self-searching for the truth.
Thoughts, words, and actions are in unfeigned perpetual youth.
The fulfilment of feelings flows towards fullness of life.
Between uprightness and vileness, there is a constant strife.
Virtues, like treasures of vast oceans, are hidden within
Could stains of sin, before relentless goodness ever win?
Divinity, like vast skies, endlessly gets expanded.
Fullness of spirit within innermost shrines is implanted.
Values are revalued. Sensual pleasures are channelled.
Hindrances towards integral liberation are annulled.
All that the almighty meant for humans to be is won.
Eternally, in everything, the divine will is done.
June 3 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 13-15
Key Verse – Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO LISTENS TO US
WHEN WE SPEAK TO HIM
Praise be to God for listening to us
when we speak to Him by His:
Grace about our guilt’s struggles
Goodness along His gift of salvation
Grandeur upon His granted strength
Guidance, girding our spiritual sustenance
Greatness, governed through His sovereignty
Job 14:20 Praise be to the Lord for prevailing over us with His:
Help against our helplessness
Holiness along His heavenly heralding
Hope to hover before our hopelessness
Honour that humbles us for our health-happiness
Hoisting against humiliating and hampering hindrances
Job 15:11 Praise be to the Saviour for
His consolations always:
Inspirational along His virtues
Innumerable and victorious
Influencing valiant vows
Important, never vain
Instilling values. Amen!
June 3, 2024
A quiet storm made its way
Feelings strewn and blown astray
Enamored in one another were we
In turns a desperation to be free
Lost in each other, thus
A soft-focused portrait of us
Warm is the sea as the sun is swallowed
Pleading vacant hearts no longer hollowed
Silhouettes kiss in night’s moonlight
Tranquil bliss as our hearts reignite
All hindrances and snags we now transcend
At a shimmering prismed rainbow’s end
Arousing achievement ardor
affirming assertive aspirations
Beaming brightly
beyond besetting blight
Carving creations consciously
circumspectly with care
Dreams are stars of clarity that direct
delighting desires to dare and do…
Empowering exploits midst pain-exposure
earnestly enabling with empathy
Freedom to fight fear
fortitude flight fueled by faith
Girded while governed for growth
geared toward going then glowing
Hope-hoisted held high
healing against woes' hindrances
Illumining then instructing
influencing to ignite interesting interactions
Jubilantly pursuing joy
junking jabs of wrong judgment
Kindling kindness
kaleidoscopic in its worthy kinship...
Leading in loving the LORD
as light* toward learning-leaps!
*Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
ABC with alliterations in free verse
December 1, 2023
2nd place, "Stars Of Clarity" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Ink Empress; judged on 12/3/2023
Search For Entity SHM
I care, I SEARCH FOR my REAL ENTITY
Throughout life like others, I was bound to pass
through agitation and serenity.
All hindrances - obstacles to surpass.
Enjoyed childhood, studied working hard.
Accessed success ! Blessed to reach on top.
Sometimes life ran smooth, sometimes faced hazard.
Sometimes endured failure : Effort went on flop.
In last phase achievements turned meaningless.
Post life entrance in a different stage.
How to play my role ? Sinking in darkness.
Book of After Life just showing blank page.
I care, I search for my identity
WHETHER ME ENTWINED WITH DIVINITY.
success or failure,
achievements turned meaningless
in last phase of life.
I search for real entity, whether me entwined with divinity.
SEARCH FOR ENTITY
I care, I search for my real entity.
Throughout life like others, I was bound to pass
through agitation and serenity.
All hindrances - obstacles to surpass.
Enjoyed childhood, studied working hard.
Accessed success ! Blessed to reach on top.
Sometimes life ran smooth, sometimes faced hazard.
Sometimes endured failure : Effort went on flop.
In last phase achievements turned meaningless.
Post life entrance in a different stage.
How to play my role ? Sinking in darkness.
Book of After Life just showing blank page.
I care, I search for my identity
whether me entwined with divinity !
Away on a wheelchair
no fear on his face
my special child triumphs
to win trials’ race.
He zooms for improvement
along growth delight
and surmounts hindrances
to soar midst faith-flight.
By his transport freedom
he moves well with zest
Driving persistently
to reach success crest.
Praying with thanksgiving*
grateful for God’s care
my child sweetly hugs me
to show his love’s share.
*Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
July 18, 2023
1st place, "Away in a Manger Contest Re run" Rhyme Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by JAN ALLISON; judged on 7/31/2023
Homeland
Deafening silence echoing loud
Solace, serene winds bellowing out
Cowering pebbles whispering softly
Pristine sand gliding unknowingly
Rapturous rays of sun smiling
Windswept nature at its delaying
This is the beauty of my homeland
Smiling faces with warm hearts
Outstretched arms as a friendship start
No barriers, tangles, cobweb or hindrances
Only happy, ecstatic, blissful instances
Ready to help, reach out, lend a hand
Divided we fall, united we stand
This is the beauty of my homeland
No differences with neighbours we see
Similarities though are by far aplenty
Same skin colour, looks and features
Landscape, climate and even nature
This is the beauty of my homeland
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