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Best Poems Written by Sephus Zulueta

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The Naked Boy

Mama, I hate to wear
Big brother's baggy clothes. 
For neighbors know it well
That he looks better in those. 
Mama, I hate to wear
My Father's too-big shoes. 
I layered all too many socks
They still came out too loose
Mama, I hate to wear
Dear cousin's fancy coat.
It always smelled so different
Must be their fancy soap. 
Mama, I hate to wear
Uncle's long-legged jeans. 
I'll never be as tall as him
When he was in his teens.
Mama, please let me be
Though I look so small and thin. 
Please don't bury me in clothing, 
I feel right in my own skin

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Leaf On the Stream

A listless drifting,
A quiet being,
The lonely leaf on the stream.
From whence it came
Or what it's aim
All's lost a distant dream.
And as it drifted
At last it lifted,
It lifted into the air.
It freely soared
The stream ignored,
The stream of all it's care.
Aw'fully thrilled,
With wishes filled
The sky's never been so near.
In hopeful flight
The world set right,
There was not one to fear.
But woe!
The gusty blow
Could not forever stall
The fated scheme
Back to the stream
The leaf begun to fall.
A tap, a rippling,
It went on drifting
On the stream's incessant flow.
Who could discern
The wind's return?
The leaf would never know

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Your Eyes, the Key

There I stood transfixed
Restrained by thousand regard
Your eyes set me free

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Lullaby

Lullaby.
Lull me now
To sleep.
Let me sink
Into the sea of dreams.
The familiar scent
Of my pillow--
The scent of home.
Let me rest
Secured beneath
My blanket. 
Till the warmth
Of your embrace
comfort me.
I close my eyes,
My mind betrays me.
It tells me of fear--
Lurking in the dark. 
Tears flow.
Let me remember your smile,
The soothing voice--
the lullaby.
Let me sleep...
The sound of footsteps. 
The beating of my heart,
Leaping with joy.
You are here.
Let me arise and greet you.
Let my voice brighten
Your weary eyes
As your voice rested mine.
The lullaby.

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Pride Enough To Beg

Now your crown lays broken
And your scepter duly snapped
Your feet so fleet now leaden
Your might of arm too, sapped.
Yet cling you to times due passed
And vainly hope for morrow bright
Your paltry breath would scarcely last
Sustained you still your burning pride
So quick to kneel and grind your head
To dust, so rightly blithe
Your noble soul demands be fed
Its wretched lust for life.

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Gate of Waking

Who should console my soul forlorn
When traces linger of your grace? 
When wake I to a des'late morn
And left so pining your embrace? 

With blear of eyes, your visage fades
As sleep abandons me anon. 
Your form receding to the shades, 
And lo! I blink and you are gone! 

No truer love was there for me
Than love that was your gentle heart. 
And by our Garden's sanctity
I vowed that we shall never part! 

My eyes accursed to open so, 
And you not crossing past the gate. 
To where your essence cannot go, 
To where I suffer well as wake! 

Oh, that I may pluck out my eyes
As bribe to him who guards all rest!
And all the world of waking dies
As gain to me who gains you best! 

And never shall I see you weep
Amongst our Garden's deathless blooms
No eyes to ever wake my sleep, 
No gate to part us ever soon.

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The Hundred Sheep

Plussed and flummoxed,
The hundred sheep.
As I tossed and turned
In my sleep.
They must wonder
If crafty wolf
O'er the fence with them
Did leap!
As I counted
Droopy-eyed,
I must've let a one
Slip by!
Loud the bleat
Of troubled sheep
And I tossed and turned
In my sleep.

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Disenchanted

I am as an infant 
Reaching
For the stars
Above my crib
Fascinated so
By shiny
A piece
Of metal scraps
And lacquered wood
Hanging 
By silver threads
On the lattice
Of the skies.

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Words

A tempest raged within.
A building force, nowhere to go.
Hopeless, I sought to quell the din.
I uttered "wrath"
And it was so.
Released, the winds did blow.

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An Evening Walk

Stark against eve's fading light
Against the dreary drab concrete
Dainty towers pale and bright
Like beacons fixed on modest feet
Stole they did my flitting eyes
With the gentle sway of your gait
Rippling forms aim to entice
With every shifting of your weight
Teasing a furtive peeking
Your knees beneath aflutt'ring skirt
Calves trim and ivory seeking
With all my naive affections flirt