Poetry Masterpost

100 Memories: 003: Typhoon
"sister says come see how high the water is. i say okay. the water slices the first quarter of stairs but is climbing every hour..."

100 Memories: 007: Prospecting by Bernise Carolino
"eyes trained for rolexes and LVs, i assess the next stranger..."

"...we kept them all, but could not keep them right."

Ang Prinsesa ng mga Bilanggo by Chad Patrick Osorio
"Mabuti pa ang ipis, minsa’y naiisip niya: nakakalipad."

Brothers by Chad Patrick Osorio
"Tomorrow I become your brother. I want so bad for you to be worth it."

 Burn by Michaela Carmitan
"But the next infinities were hurricanes..."

Coffee Shop by Clarissa Malig-on
"...fitting together as if the world could not separate our joined portions..."

 Children of the Revolution: A Sestina by Chad Patrick Osorio
"...the need  in their voices solid, to right the wrong done to them."

 Distorted by Joyce Dianne De Guzman
"And all turned to look at her."

Dying, Death, Spirits by Lex Cutamora
 "The night bows its head and apologizes for what it didn’t mean."

Entropy by Avril Bries
"We want so hard that in the end we always seem to be betrayed by something—maybe
 it’s the irony of death by rat piss, maybe it’s the fire tearing up suburbia..."

 Galaxy by Michaela Carmitan

"Practicing for conversations with foreign tongues, learning the difference between I miss you and You’re missing from me..."

"Your face the afternoon before the field bore your static, scarless cheeks..."

 Hango sa Kanya by Maxine Stephanie Prado
"...ang kataotohanang nagkukubli’t nagpapa-alipin sa guni-guni ng kasalukayan..."

"Highlights of my dreams and hopes and fears..."

Human Geographer by Lex Cutamora
"I am marking latitudes and longitudes of you if only to remember...."

 Inahin by Chad Patrick Osorio
"Ang tanging pahinga lamang ay pagtuka o pagkain, sanggunian ng tsismisan..."

Inconsistency by Sia Aveno
"It’s pretty obvious: she isn’t pretty (at least not obviously so)..." 
Isang Maulang Gabi by Jed Dalangin 
"Nagulat ang langit sa dagundong ng kulog na bumasag sa pang-gabing katahimikan..."

 Kandila by Rieziel Bernal
"Ngunit kasabay ng pagliwanag ko'y ang init..." 

 The Library by Chad Patrick Osorio
"In the corner, a pair of glasses sits askew, as if forgotten in a hurry..."

 "I wonder, if the ashtrays filled with cigarette butts tell more about how I burn through friends..."
"yet you are strongest against the light and so you have no choice but to thrive hiding behind a thousand watchful eyes..."
"Ikaw na aking gunita, payak na lilip at pangarap..."

 Metempsychosis by Avril Bries
"... love is waiting, dressed in a stranger’s clothes; beautiful and covert..."

 Ngiti by Jellorie Gallego
"...at alalahanin mong uulan, babaha, lagi at lagi..."

"...but unlike the dawn there were no ghosts, only children who are no longer children..."

 One Second by Joyce Dianne De Guzman
"...the question changed."

"Dahan-dahang naglalapit ang ating mga matang magkatitig habang unti-unting naglalayo ang ating mga damdamin." 

 Papercut by Michaela Carmitan
"(so soft that you can't hear me) as you grab my hand (not so gently)..."

"...naaalala mo pa ba, noong tayo’y nasa gitna pa ng labanan, ika’y yumakap at kumapit ng mahigpit..."

"Fuel the fire; watch it spread from your eyes to your mouth, your heart, your hands, until you are ablaze with why you are alive..."

 Putahi by Chad Patrick Osorio
"Sabi ng Lola ko, iba ang pait ng buhay lalo na sa mga babae..."


 Sa Aking Gitara by Jed Dalangin
"Hayan ang kurba sa ‘yong katawan, batis sa mang-aawit na uhaw..."


 Sa Tala by Maxine Stephanie Prado
"Tanging silang kaysaya lamang ang nagbalik..."
"During moments of gray and blue when the entire world sleeps/weeps, I look at you, and the whole landscape falls..."
"I want us to look like twins. But if you like your long hair just fine, I regret getting my new haircut..."

 Unsent by Michaela Carmitan
"Where I could feel the possibilities of you... of us..."
 "A century’s worth of time..."

 "if only, you, in your white shirt had been that person to save me..."

 Your Hands by Maxine Stephanie Prado
"Sipping from the periphery of my vision, a silhouette..."

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