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wheatfieldspoet · 23 days

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as isaac, on the walk home

please, won’t you look at me, father? i can’t erase the memory of the surrender in your eyes if i keep staring at your back.

you held my hand as we climbed the mountain. i felt your pulse through my palm, your grip tight against the sweat. God has called us, you said with urgency, yet you took your time as we ascended.

i can’t remember what i feared more: the blade, the flame, or the aftermath.

who would have made the bigger sacrifice if there was no ram in the thicket— you? me?

or mother?

is there no test of faith more agonizing than to forgive?

but even in my final breath, i would have. i love you even though i may never understand it, if only you would tell me. i don’t ask for much—

father! please. soothe my shivering. i’m afraid the next time i see a knife i might think it’s love.

— Jade A.

escapril day 3: eye contact

@adventurerswritingguild day 3: hand / god / knife

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poetryorchard · 1 year

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northern hemisphere friends: I hope the sunlight is treating you well! southern hemisphere friends: stay warm ok?? 🌞

poems from the Equinox workshop 🌼

#poetry #writeblr #equinox #spilled ink #spilled poetry #young poets #poets of color #asian poetry #filipino poetry #filipino poets #poets on tumblr #poetry community #writing community #spring #on spring #on equinox #recovery #on recovery

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jmsapphire · 2 years

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Soft age and softer dreams

Coffee, cupcake, dairy milk

Right before life makes you see

Its many many cruelties

Now time has passed and

Your coffee's just black

Sleep is more important

Than giving back and yet

You still live on, in autopilot

When ages ago romantic was your plot

Now you're just keeping it alive.

- but why should that be bad , you just need a new dream now

#writerscreed #deadwatered #poetryportal #poetryriot #poeticstories #inspireamuse #writtenconsideration #poetry #poets #filipino writers #filipino poets #jmsapphire #mood #life #life happens #writeblrcafe #poesie #poesia #alt lit

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lhunacy · 2 years

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La Tormenta y Tu

Maskin el viento

Ya bira cara para

Mira Contigo.

Torment and You

Even the wind

Turned his head around

To take a look at you.

Poem by: Cezar Ruiz Aquino

Translated by: Francis C. Macansantos

#fave #filipino #filipino writers #filipino poets #ubod #poem #tula #poetry #spilled ink #spilled words #love #quotes #spilledink

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makatang-iska · 2 years

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Bug Me Not

I warned you, don't get too close to me.

I don't care if you think you can make me happy.

I just want to figure things out on my own.

You are not welcome in my comfort zone.

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I specifically told you not to bug me.

Can you move to another one, seriously!

You keep trying to shoot your shot, clearly unable to take no for an answer.

If you continue with this pestering I will press charges, I swear.

#poeticstories #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #poetry #poets on tumblr #poems #spilled words #musings #spilled poetry #makata #feelings #tula #filipino poets #tula para sa iyo #sulat #life

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ikaywrites · 2 years

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Journal Entry #5

I’m thinking about killing myself again. It’s very hard because no one believes that I do. I do want to do it. It’s hard when you just keeps on failing everyday no matter how much you try, it’s always the same.

10-22-21

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kamreadsandrecs · 2 months

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#history #writing #poetry #jose garcia villa #filipino poets #filipino authors #filipino literature

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kammartinez · 2 months

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#history #poetry #jose garcia villa #filipino poets #filipino authors #filipino literature

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liwayway0219 · 7 months

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Mga Jakolero ng Ateneo

[Poetry]

Pre alam mo ba mula pumasok ako dito sa Ateneo naadik akong magjakol, kasi unang araw namin, yung Prof tumayo sa harap tapos bigla nalang nagjakol, edi lahat kami nakatitig, nagsusulat ng notes, yung katabi ko manghang-mangha, sabi sakin, “Galing ni Prof magjakol, idol talaga.” Tapos minsan nagtatawag pa si Prof ng ibang tao para magjakol din kasama siya. Yung unang beses na tinawag niya ako, hindi pa ako marunong magjakol kaya nagtanong ako, “Prof paano ba magjakol?” Ayun hinawakan niya yung tite ko tapos hinimas-himas, tapos ako naman hinimas din yung ulo ng tite niya, sobrang sarap. Sa sobrang sarap, sabay kaming nagpaputok nang malakas. Mula noon, araw-gabi na akong nagjajakol.

Wala siyang pakialam kung yung tite namin ay malaki, maliit, mapula, maitim, may bulitas ba, makapal ba yung bulbol, kung maluwag na yung puke o masikip parin, basta ang mahalaga lang talaga tol, kung malakas ka ba umungol. Oo! Dapat yung ungol mo dinig hanggang sa kabilang classroom para alam ng lahat na marunong ka magjakol!

Pero sa totoo lang tol, ayaw namin sa mga hindi marunong magjakol. Dapat kasi nagjajakol yung buong mundo para mamulat sila sa katotohanan, diba? Nako, bumisita kami sa mga indigent communities para mag-educate, sobrang inspiring, pero kaawa-awa nga lang kasi hindi sila nagjajakol, alam mo ginawa namin? Kinantot namin nang matindi, kahit sino pa yan para sila rin matuto magjakol tulad namin.

Nakakatuwa lang kasi andami nang marunong magjakol, may tite man o puke, mayaman o mahirap, bakla man o hindi, nagjajakol na kasi tinuruan namin magjakol. Pero alam mo ba, iba-iba kasi yan kada school. Sa UP, kaliwang kamay ang gamit pero yung hinlalaki hinahawakan yung malaki nilang ulo, sa UST kanang kamay tapos pabilisan, sa La Salle naman astig din hindi nga nila hinahawakan ang tite nila, yung dalawa nilang kamay hinihimas-himas ang utong nila. Dito naman sa Ateneo, kaliwang kamay din tapos binabagalan namin ang pag-himas sa ulo para maramdaman ang bawat taas at pagbaba ng kamay namin.

Ang mahalaga lang pre, marunong ka magjakol kasi sa totoo lang nakakahiya na hindi ka nagjajakol. E kanina lang katatapos lang namin sa klase magjakol, astig nga eh, sabay sabay kaming lahat nagpaputok tas anglakas pa ng inungol namin: everything is political!

#poetry #ateneo #ateneo de manila university #poets on tumblr #filipino poets #writing #writers on tumblr #filipino writers #creative writing

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nashira · 5 months

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"The Philippines is the 169th country with the highest suicide rate, with 2.2 suicides per 100,000 people."

#poetry #spilled ink #poetry tumblr #poet side of tumblr #writeblr #poets of color #filipino #filipino artists #filipino poetry #recovering catholic #poets on tumblr #asian writers #asian artists #artists of sea #eldest daughter #eldest daughters

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dogma9 · 3 months

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Angela Gabrielle Fabunan, Midway

#poetry #filipino literature #filipino poetry #filipino poet #philippine literature

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wheatfieldspoet · 24 days

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angels are real, mine lives in chicago

when people ask how i survived 3 years in a graveyard shift, i tell them it’s because i have friends on the other side.

i threw a line out the sea and ended up being found, your tug on the invisible string pulling everything into place.

more than half a day away, but time stands still for us enough to fit years of stories in the palms of our hands.

even if we’ve only shared smiles from afar, your wings cross oceans to carry your laugh to me.

when i make it to you, you’ll give me a place to rest, tangible to match the astral one you’ve already granted.

distance and time zones are nothing at all when i carry you in my pocket, guardian dear.

now, like sun and moon, we trade waking hours. still, i fall asleep holding your goodnight text-shaped hand.

— Jade A.

escapril day 2: change of state

napowrimo.net day 2: write a platonic love poem

for @darlingwendy

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houseofache · 3 months

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— it's a weird feeling being an english grad and a person of colour

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jmsapphire · 19 days

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If I could I would

Read all the chapters of your life

Down to the page, to the word

Where we meet

I want to learn you

I want to see your points-of-view

I want to know what and what not to do

But I also want to see if I can be

Me with you, without pretending

Without withholding

I want that, I want you.

- if you could, would you read my book too?

#spilled ink #writerscreed #deadwatered #poeticstories #filipino writers #mood #love #poets on tumblr #poetryportal

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lihimlihamtinta · 4 months

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Sa mahabang panahon

Iniisip kong hindi ako naririnig ng mga tala

Hindi ako paborito ng mga diwata

Ayaw akong pagbigyan ng tadhana

Ngunit sa kabilang banda

Paano kung naririnig naman talaga?

Paano kung paborito naman talaga?

Ayaw ka lang pala mapahamak ng tadhana

#poetry #tula #spoken word #poem #poets on tumblr #tagalog poetry #tagalog #poems #maikling tula #tulatulaan #poetscommunity #poet #female poets #poetic #poets corner #poets on tumbler #filipino poetry #makalaya #makata

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makatang-iska · 2 years

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So I got a haircut today. The highlights from last year have been chopped off. I decided to get a haircut because it was too dang hot in the Philippines. Even if you just took a shower, you'll sweat af the moment you step out of the bathroom.

The last haircut and hair change I got was back in August 2021, when my ex suddenly broke up with me when I was freaking having two case analysis in my ethics class and editing my thesis proposal. She got back with me days later. My mother, in the hopes of cheering me up, got me to go to a salon with her. I got my highlights.

Today, I didn't do the hair change because I was broken or anything. It's just too hot here. Hahaha even though it will be two months since our final-final.pdf break up this month, I did not do the hair change because of her. Haha.

I want to try having an undercut but my mother is protesting hahaha. Maybe in a later date, hmm...

Also, I felt cute soooo took a picture.

#life documented #life #musings #spilled thoughts #filipino poets #spilled ink #changes

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