#filipino-poetry

"MAY BUKAS NAMAN" Umiiyak ng walang katapusan. Sakit na hindi kayang pigilan. Susuko o lalaban pa ba? Wala na ang dating saya. Naghahanap ng dahilan. Walang nagawang kasalanan. Ito ba talaga'y

Photo Credit Ganito, Ganyan, Gawin mo! Paulit-ulit na lang, nakasasawa. Pare-pareho lang naman! Doon din naman ang patungo, Nakapapagod na Pwede bang magpahinga muna? Pakiramdam ko at higit sa lahat kailangan

"TAYO PA BA?" Mahal, kumusta ka na ba? Hindi ka na nagpaparamdam o nagpapakita. Sabi mo para sa pangarap natin kailangan mo'ng mag ibang bansa. Naghintay ako ng 2 taon, pagkamiss sayo at

"HINDI MALUTAS" Ano ang mabuti sa masama? Alin ang mali sa tama? Nalulungkot ba o masaya? Nakakabingi ang mga hinaing nila. Pilit man na ayosin ang sarili. Iwasan'g mag-isip na gumanti. Pero

"MANGINGISDA" Palagi ka'ng nasa karagatan. Pangalawa mo na ito'ng tahanan. Kahit kinakatakotan ito ng karamihan. Karagatan lang iyo'ng takbohan. Umalis ka ay madaling araw pa. Pamingwit at baon

A heart full of empty space, a mind that goes nowhere A feeling full of burden, an eye looking somewhere Hearing the sound of despair, and the echoing disorder A weary body a teary soul, wickedness starts

"KAIBIGAN" unspoken poetry ta veh.. "KAIBIGAN" Hindi ko na malaman ang dahilan. Paano ako napabilang sa karamihan. Malimit akong magsalita. Hindi marunong makipag-usap na kapanipaniwala.

"PAALAM NA" Hindi ko na malaman. Paano nakayanan. Mga sakit at pighati. 'Di na kaya'ng ikubli. Napahiya sa madla. Pero pilit kinaya. Basta't ika'y masaya. Kaso sobra na yata. Nagbibingi-bingihan.

"PANAGINIP LANG" ako'y matutulog na. nanabik na makita ka. saan lagi kang nakatawa. kailan ako laging masaya. oras sana'y di pa maubos. ayoko pang matapos. pangyayaring dito nararanasan. di man

mahirap maging pogi- sa dami ng chiks nagkakagusto sa mukhang maamo at pogi kung mukha. hirap maging ako. minsan nag lalakad ako sa kalsada daming nakatitig na babae sa akin, nakayuko lang ako, kasi lahat

marami sa ating umaalis kahit malayo sa pamilya. Minsan naman tinitiis nalang ang pangulila dahil sa pangarap. "AKO'Y PAUWI NA" Ilang buwan na ba simula ng umalis ako. Kaikangan kong magtrabaho

may tatlong babe ako nakita matangkad at makisig ang isa ang panglawa ang panot ang pangatlo ay maitim silang tatlo ang tumawid sa ilog at ng nakarating sa dulo ng sapaah. at biglang nawala ang isang babe

It was a long walk on a Friday afternoon, feeling waywardly unable to pursue my inner peace, maybe I'm just stubborn to take what's best for me or am I not looking at the right place to start. Source I

source Down by the sickness nobody had noticed The soul had succumbed from an invisible disease The heart was weak, broken and bent The iron spirit of youth was full of enormous dent. Still acted like

In my amazement, I'm expressing gratitude, my admiration for everything seems endless, it has its own life wherever my eyes see, nothing left is behind, it has its own dues, it has its own moment, opening

I can't remember I'm not with you, as always we are together for many many years, I lost track of time, I try to decipher each day I'm with you, somehow my memory does die down thinking about it. Source

Tapping the alphanumeric keypad on the keyboard wishing there's something going on except what to write, I don't know, maybe I just used to writing things, whatever it is, I just typed it the way what

Yeah, we all have this one word we always depend on when we are in dire need of something miracle will happen. Source We close our eyes imagining things we already have, who knows it might be today, or

I wouldn't be surprised if some of my past hasn't back yet at the back of my memories, they had left behind to many noises I wasn't able to hear, even the good days I can't hear it. Source It came along

Yes, I wonder if time could be my friend, I will ask it to be with me some 40 years back, I will be seeing myself, my innocence, my life, growing, exploring, until I saw her for the first time. Source