Long Mata Poems

"Smooth Big Cat"



He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.

She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....

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The Story of History  

Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With  the resurrected  sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps   at the pretentious  proscenium
A ...

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sinubukan ko
pero hindi parin pala sapat sayo
akala ko ako na
yun pala
mahal mo parin pala siya

eto ang kwento ng taong minahal ko 
ng buong buo
na di parin pala sapat 
dahil mahal niya lang ako, 
pero mahal...

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Mind, intellect ego, nor echoes they spell,
Nor sense of hearing, speech, nor of smell, 
Nor am I earth, fire, air, nor yet space,
I’m Shiva, awareness and bliss. 

Nor vital Life-force, nor five breath fields,
Seven essences,...

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Hi JOSEPHINE, KAMUSTA KA NA?
SIGURO nagtataka ka kung bakit ako sumulat
PASENSYA  NA, pero WAG KANG MAGTATANONG,
WAG NA, dahil magiging BULAG, PIPI at BINGI,
Lang ang damdamin ko sa paghinga,
AWIT NG PANGARAP na PANGARAP LANG
LIGAW tingin...

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[A poem written in a dying language]

Sa tuktok ng Bontok

Ang tuktok ng Bontok, himpapawid ng mga pangarap, Kalikasan'y humahalimuyak, biyaya sa bawat hakbang,
Mga kabundukan, kay lawak ng inyong kagandahan, Taglay ninyo ang sigla't tapang ng...

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MOTHER

         O Sakti, the spouse of Siva, O Isvari, Durgey, Mata Parvati, the creation
             ...

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Lips combine
To say,“Amma”, the Mother Divine.
Amma – the sweetest word the first alphabet can provide
And the tongue safely rests inside!
Amma
Is sweet ambrosia.
O! she sees!
And my sorrows cease.
Her face
Reveals the divinest grace.
Her touches rinse
All my brutal...

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Batid ko, sa taghoy ng katahimikan mo
Bakas sa ihip ng hangin ang nakakunot na noo, 
Samyo ng nagbabagang hangin ng AGAM-AGAM
Hindi mapigilang sakit ng di malamang pakiramdam.

Ipinako ang paningin sa palubog na araw
Malamlam na panginoorin,...

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Sa maghapon ikaw ang laman ng isip ko
Sa gabi, sa pagtulog, ikaw pa rin ang laman ng utak ko, 
Saan nga ba ako susuling, saan nga ba ako pupunta? 
Hindi ko alam bakit nasumpungan kita.

Ang...

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I'm Just Getting Started

I'm just getting started, though I'm not in control,
But I am all dressed and indubitably, very well-composed,
virtuously loved by many, with honored adulation exposed,
so I lie and wait, but ready to go,...

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   IN THE EYES OF GOD EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL--

Oh, mighty creator God, why is everything beautiful;
Everything is pleasant...
In the eyes of the Lord our God \Everything is beautiful
EVERYTHING, yes everything is beautiful;

Even Lucifer Satan
God...

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A Lady Called LEENAH

Life is like a narration, try narrating your words at times to give your audience full gist and update-AFOLALEKAN

Alas! I have been to the north
looking for a lady with Kayamanta
Just for her...

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Panaginip

Ako'y isa lamang kaluluwang
dumaraan sa mundong ikaw ang nagpinta
Kung saan ang bawat halakhak ay walang kasiyahan
at ang pagluha ay pangkaraniwan

Ako ay isang hangin na dumaraan
Humahaplos sa tulalang nilalang
Dumadampi sa balat mong manhid sa nadarama
Nakatunghay sa...

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El ritmo de mi corazon 
Follows the beat of the music that hums in the town 
La musica of regeton and salsa
Flows through the wind as my body is compelled to listen
 
Merchants selling fresh...

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He don tey
Ma guy he don tey
Wey monkey dey work 
And baboon dey talk
Chai! No be today.

Make I tanda
Gidigba like Balogun Thunder
Drop some verse like vaseline
Put ugwu meta
And land ponmo like four
Untop dis mata.

No be...

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Killer spy
Didi Tri
(Better known as DDT)

She’s a femme fatale honeybee,
bosom deadly
A human buzzsaw,
will cut your 007 Casanova cover off

Agent 31
got an extra XX    ~   Crosshair aim chromosomal
Has one and thirty...

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Matagal na panahong minimithi ni ina,
Tinataglay na kabutihan sa aking mata
Kailan sa akin ang iba'y makikisama
Kung wlang kabutihan akong pinapakita
 
Kahit ang sarili ko'y 'di ko rin nakikilala
Sino npa ba ang iba, at ano rin...

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First day on the job,
you took an oath to only tell lies
Had to sign a non-disclosure agreement,
before you got the Company suit-and-tie
You're CIA now,
sworn to secrecy
You're in the world of espionage,
living a 007 reality
Illegal arms...

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Mamakailang- ulit nang nangyari 'to?
'di maka- idlip man lang mga mata
Ilang ulit na bang nalihis sa mundo?
Hating-gabi, ikaw'y saksi!Sumagot ka!

Siguro mga sampong beses na yata?
Makisimpatya ka't ngumiti man lang!
Hindi ba? Kung 'di, tayo't ikaw'y magwika!
Hating-...

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If you want your relationship with God to renew,
Then June Down Under is a good time to look up at night
  among the stars to view
God's Eyes (mata ariki) upon you,
Or if you change...

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Agweruik, isang alagad ng kadiliman
Misyon niya sa mundo ay sirain ang buhay ng mga tao
Mandaraya, manloloko at mapanlinlang
Hangad niyang pagharian ang lahat at iligaw ang mga tao mula sa pagiging marangal at banal na pamumuhay

Kaalaman...

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A day to Mata's  birthday 
We went as usual on our funny trip 
Mum had sent us to get somethings  for her 
Just a little down the road,  near Mr Brown's garden...

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I am the Boy Scouts who become 
Official. 
   I am Charlie Chaplin film that 
Makes you giggle. 

   I am the triangle shirtwaist  
Factory fire. 
   I...

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A treasured memory will often surface
to the pleasure of our recall.
And we wish we could package
and share it with one and all.

It's the Fall of 70 in a Mid- Western city.
Between classes, we are gathered...

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