R-ight
E-xpression's
N-atal
A-crostic
M-eaningfully
A-pplies
E-xceptional
A-nd
L-ovely
C-omposition
A-s
N-oble
T-opic
A-dvances
R-emarkable
A-spect
Topic: Birthday of Rena Mae R. Alcantara (February 24)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Elf owl,
small Water-Bear,
curious octopus.
The Earth, blue planet of living
wonder.
Rena
R-ead
E-xcellent
N-atal
A-crostic
R-ightfully
O-bserving
S-weet
E-xpression's
M-essage
A-bout
R-eal
I-mportant
E-vent
A-s
R-emarkable
M-use
A-pplies
D-elightful
A-im
Topic: Birthday of Rena Rosemarie B. Armada (October 17)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
S-ports
E-vent
A-t
G-reat
A-rena
M-akes
E-xceptional
S-uccess
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
R-eceive
E-arly
N-ote
A-nd
M-essage
A-bout
E-xcellent
A-crostic
L-ine
C-ompletely
A-llowing
N-iceness
T-o
A-maze
R-eaders
A-new
Topic: Birthday of Rena Mae R. Alcantara (February 24)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
R-eceive
E-xcellent
N-ote
A-nd
M-essage
A-bout
E-ternal
R-ighteousness
E-difying
Y-our
E-arnest
S-oul
Topic: Birthday of Rena Mae Reyes (February 24)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
R-ays
E-rase
N-ight
A-fter
L-etting
Y-our
N-ew
B-eacon
U-se
E-ffulgent
N-ature
Topic: Birthday of Rena Lyn C. Buen (October 19)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
R-ising sun twenty-fourth January
O-pens the day with light;
S-hadows have disappeared,
E-arly morn sets things aright.
C-oal clouds and haze
A-re both nowhere in view;
M-ist and fog fade away,
B-lack sky becomes blue.
O-pen your life to beacon,
N-ever hide your aura;
G-o and start watching
G-ames at the Philippine
A-rena.
I hear it snowed at home today
while I basked in the sun.
I don't care, I cannot wait
to hold my little ones.
Edna my precious first born
with your hair of flaming red.
I miss talking things through.
The wise things you've said.
Cora with that bear hug
I love walking into.
Tight embrace, I'm encased
in the love flowing from you.
Rena my baby now and always.
Turning twenty soon.
The joy you've given, I'm smitten.
Love you to the moon.
And back!
09/04/2016
Rena knew she was coming, long before I did.
She was pulling at my heart strings.
She was glinting in my eye.
She was whispering to me in my sleep.
Telling me of the love she'd keep...for me.
She was waiting to be born.
Far off in the starry sky.
Why she choose us, I'll never know.
Our love had long since died.
The love she brought overwhelmed me.
It was so nurturing and complete.
Communicating telepathically.
Then every day "I love you mammy."
As soon as she could speak.
While at my breast, she was giving more
than she ever took from me.
Comfort, warmth, peace and pleasure.
A bond so strong, to this day we
know we belong together.
She's twenty now and although I am no longer "cool".
And I have put them through the mill.
Leaving daddy for reasons they may never understand.
The cord between us will never break.
Make no mistake!
At night I like to look to the sky
and remember the lost ones by whom I'm inspired
The angels Rena, Toni, Jeromiah, and David
all showed me something, how can I repay them?
My heros whos lives, troubled like mine
yet never once did they ever fail to shine
even as they thought they mattered not
I noticed the love for the life through they fought
every time they woke from the bed
until one by one, my heros, fell dead
When I remember, even though, ago long,
I look to the heavens, and sing them a song.
I feel them smile, and clap for another
I give it all my love, like I do Teddy and Randy, my brothers
who pulled me out of the hole in my head
and gave me the strength to carry the dead
into my concert, a symphonic life
for its what they give me, when we get lost in the night.
Turn on the computer
Listen to it hum
Soon there are fingers typing
Click clacking across the keyboard
With a simple click I'm signed in
In a second the new comment message pops up
Watch the arrow glide across the screen
Click on the purple letters
I smile at what I see
"Hey Mommy"
My Baby Girl is on
My angelic little Rena
She lights up my day
And I try to protect her from all hurt
She seems so innocent
So fragile
I wish I could hold her close
protect her from the world
Heal all her pain
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