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The Saddest Lines
by Pablo Neruda* Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, ‘The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.’ The night wind revolves in the sky and sings....
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Reminiscence and Regret
She sits alone in the silence of the city’s most opulent room In her aged hands, a bouquet of weeds Dry, brittle As fragile as memory itself and she remembers… Youth, in the countryside A young girl...
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Frangipani Evening
Midnight after a storm the world was asleep It was just us in the stillness in the scented air and the hundreds of frangipani blossoms fallen on the grass. The cold air, the fragrance the rainkissed...
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Aftermath
There is stillness here after the storm has spent its strength and its casualties of fallen frangipani flowers pervade the night air with fragrance. There is silence here not even a whisper or a breath...
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The Notebook
I had to tiptoe to find it on the topmost shelf – that old notebook where my highschool friends wrote their farewell messages just before graduation. It’s been a long time since I last opened its...
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Psychz Reunion on Rizal Day ’09
For the first time last December 30, 2009, I attended my high school class reunion. It happens annually, but somehow there was always somewhere else that I needed to be. That year, I heard that they...
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Day 24 — The person that gave you your favorite memory
My feet will never get tired of walking with you. ~ you Dear Legolas, Thinking back on my favorite memories, the moments when I felt truly and wonderfully alive, I realize that in so many of them,...
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A Small Step at Sunset
She sat on the grass under the huge acacia tree, watching the sky change color from a clear blue to the glowing hues of sunset through the lacy patterns made by the branches and leaves. It had been a...
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The Dumaguete Escapade
That week, it was wonderful. That week, I was lying on the grass, getting caught in the rain, sitting on a balcony with my feet up beside yours. I was listening to music beside a sunlit pond and...
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By the sea
I went out with a friend today. We went out and we sat by the ocean, and somehow the conversation turned to the first one who broke my heart. Suddenly, I found myself talking about you again, after...
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