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Our Golden Times During PNoy – Part 5
Behold PNoy kicking like horse
Corrupt officials kicked out with force
Senators involved in spoiling pork barrel
Are now holding bars in each own cell
Officers accused in police and medic
Are also not spared from the angst of the kick
If public corruption is sincerely detached
Territorial protection is willingly attached
Established by the visit of Obama
Speaking of foreign, we got something in FIBA
Gilas Pilipinas made us Most Valuable
Proving Filipinos are fans indomitable
Fans of those to country give heart
Fans of those like PNoy who's smart
Go like Rachelle Ann, our pride offshore in theater
Swerve like Michael Christian, our first Olympian in winter.
-12/30/2014
(Dumarao)
"The Virus We All Want"
Pay It Forward
All the good
in You, shining
the others up
that is
the
Love
we all want
Kindness
to raise
each other
Up
it's highly
contagious
the new virus
the One
we all need
we all want
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
LUX VITAE
“God Gave Everything I Want”/ Jagger, Kravitz
https://youtu.be/cghrHm51qhs
"I’ve learned
that you shouldn’t
go through life
with a catcher's mitt
on both hands.
You need to be able to
throw something back."
(Maya Angelou)
"When we're stuck
with cruelty,
we can either decide
that here is where it stops
or inflict the same on others
like it's a rite of passage."
(Joyce Rachelle)
"So speak
encouraging words
to one another.
Build up hope
so you’ll all be together in this,
no one left out, no one left behind.
I know you’re already doing this;
just keep on doing..."
(as translated by Eugene Peterson -
amongst his other distinguished
qualifications - Poet).
R-ighteous
A-uthor
C-omposes
H-eartfelt
E-xpression
L-etting
L-ine
E-mploy
C-reativity
U-nder
L-ovely
A-crostic
W-ithout
A-nnoying
Y-ou
Topic: Birthday of Rachelle B. Culaway (November 04)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
morning is the doorway
to a day that brings
reasons to live and laugh
again
reasons to dream
I get lost in dreams
that sweep me up as
if on wings of a mystical
bird flying high above
my worries and doubts
floating effortlessly in, around,
over, and under clouds
and we are so close to the moon
that its glow shines upon my
skin and we flew so high, so
far away it is night on this other side
of Earth
and back into myself to the
dishes i'm washing and a song plays
on the radio and now I am
Debbie Allen or Rachelle Ferrell
clearly this is a dream....bending
my body to the beat and bending notes
octaves I never knew I could hit
and the audience is clappin' and
singin' and I remember i'm in
the kitchen washing dishes
morning reminds me
to pray and meditate
even throughout the day
no matter what i'm doing
or what is goning on and
I feel stronger when I do it
it's like movement if I don't I can
feel that too and the day is diferent
more stiff and uninspired
morning with its sun
its birds chirping and
lawn mowers buzzing
and people scattering
on their way to wherever
gives me a reason to be
grateful that I saw it again
R-adiant
A-nd
C-lear
H-eaven
E-ndorses
L-ovely
L-ight
E-rasing
C-louds
U-nder
L-ucidity
A-s
W-indchill
A-voids
Y-ou
Topic: Birthday of Rachelle B. Culaway (November 04)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Be it Hitler against the world
Be it Rachelle against the Musketeers
Or even that blood thirsty rebel leader
Somehow, evil loses the war.
Be it Superman against Lex Luthor
Be it Batman against the Joker
Or even Ben 10 against Vilgax
Somehow, evil loses the war.
And in the ultimate battle
Of the greatest good against the greatest evil
Satan has always lost the war.
"Careful who you call your friends and the company you keep, Rachelle."
Those words I her throughout the years of growing up from my mother.
Never did I take her words of wisdom to acknowledgement.
My eyes roll in the back of my head "she don't know what she's talkin bout."
In one ear and out the other is how it always went.
Sitting in the police station not anticipating my mother's arrival.
My so called "friend" framed me for a crime that wasn't my doing.
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