Thursday, July 11, 2019

Counting Love


Months ago, I had the courage to submit to Boiling Waters one of the random poems I wrote. 

But just to document the piece here in my blog, I decided to also post the poem here. This was inspired by an old Bible, which I bought eleven (11) years ago. It was a Bible I bought using my monthly stipend during college. That was the time that I started reading the Bible and got to know Jesus Christ a bit. Three years later, I was a graduating student and I joined a Catholic Youth community, where my relationship with the Lord grew a bit more. That year, I had this silly idea of counting the word "love" in the Bible. Yeah! If there are 365 "Do not be afraid" in the bible, then maybe, love can be counted as well. When I left my hometown and moved to Cebu, I left the Bible at home and even forgot about the "counting" I did back then.

Fast forward, 7 years later, I went home and found the old Bible. It brought so much memories except for the numbers written on the pages. It actually took me days before I realize that the numbers written are the number of "love" I counted.

So, read on...

Sunday, May 19, 2019

KAPE: A Bisaya Spoken Poetry


Ganahan ko ug kape...
Siguro nakadungog na ka ani...
Pero ganahan jud ko ug kape...

kanang maKAPEling siya...
or sa kinabuhi, maKAPEkas siya...
haha... bitaw... atik ra...
pero ganahan jud ko ug Kape
kanang sakto lang sa timpla
dili tantong isog
to the point di na ka kabarog...
pero kanang sakto lang jud
kanang ig sigop nimu,
 kaingon ka'g "very good".

Saturday, October 13, 2018

GREAT QUALITIES DEMAND GREAT COST


May it be a big and sturdy house of your own
or a nice and high quality pair of shoes,
that's going to cost you big. Not just
financially but, we're talking here about efforts.

What are you going to do to achieve it?

You're going to have to work hard for it.
Now, that's not only applicable in material
things like houses, cars or pair of shoes.

Monday, March 5, 2018

IN THE FACE OF DEATH

I could have died
He could have pulled that trigger and take my life.
I could have dropped dead on that wet ground.
Rain and blood will flow and while unmoving, I'll watch my killers go.