Farewell Places Poems

Philippines, my country of birth,
one of the countries in Southeast Asia.
It is an archipelago or group of islands,
with more than seven thousand islands.

Luzon, the largest...

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Into the damp room things creep.
So, in it no one should sleep,
Young girls asked to do so weep,
Ruth awake all night: scared heap,
Thrice did fearfully...

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Two towns not different 
from each other and yet
they have become indelible
and their preciousness inestimable,
they are two thoughts of equal devotion;
on one I spent lively...

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Early one morning, as fresh springtime was just ending,
I was hiking in the woods, and overhearing the birds sing.

And with a tranquil heart, and lost...

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On a bright broad beach near Barcelona
Where I was feeling so all alone-a
A glorious vision strode into view.
Like Rubirosa, I knew what to do.

I charmed...

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~ kiss on the coffin ~
~ the old man sheds one last tear ~
           ...

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Translation of the Aranjuez lyrics from the Spanish original sung by Andrea Bocelli

Your lovely presence still lingers at Aranjuez

Aranjuez,
A place fused through in dreams of...

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Zig-Zag

Downtown or on the roadway
zig-zag searching
always for something..
Stopping at a coffeeshop 
reaching a place
seemingly removed..
An interruption in
a zig-zag map
with map forgotten..
The coffeeshop was not
a zig...

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The time has melted the construct of its clock 
Time is now free to terrorize the unexpected 
Sudden deaths and severe illnesses as a result...

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How I wish I could have clung to musings
on this bench in a park; the same wooden one
which cradled my afternoons,feeding little birds
as memories gripped...

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To be in a young America ~
           visions of a ship upcoming statue of Liberty
...

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On that cloudy weekend in June 
I hear a soft and graceful tune 
from the grey bird on the tree 
branch 
Singing sweet lullabies felt...

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Chip off the old block;
        It runs in the family.
This all needs to stop
    ...

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What is it to see the soil of home again?
A welcome, snow-struck and a return
To cold; sharp white contrasts sunburn.
We converse in broken tongues to...

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Green bark a prism creates,
Feel the pull of earth, you must.

Rotates, a slime of endless hates,
Can hold me not, this world’s crust.

Friendship’s ties, isolation Deflates,
Succumbs,...

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