My Journey in Life

Sleep, and dreams
Want of a moment
Weird, it seems
Thoughts in a current
Easily dispersed
Sense of images spent

*** "When Sleep Comes" is one of Erwin’s two poems included in emanilapoetry’s anthology Sa Kabila Ng Ritmo: Mga Piling Tula ng mga Bagong Makata.

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Chocolate

Starts as a wish on a chocolate star
Grows to conquer the chocolate sky
Rains on one person
My chocolate Tita Mameng
She sends some every year
Wrapped in chocolate paper
Into my mouth they go
Filling every cavity
Every crevice flattened
With a chocolate fill:
Tita Mameng’s embrace

*** "Chocolate" is one of Erwin’s two poems included in emanilapoetry’s anthology Sa Kabila Ng Ritmo: Mga Piling Tula ng mga Bagong Makata.

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Jump!

Fill the lungs with air
Cold, and perfumed by the mountains
Then suddenly stretch
Faster than the dictates of science
And fly

Leave your skin behind
You won’t need it
Or eyes; look with your hands
The thick, damp foam of the heavens

Exhale if you want to land
Smile if you want to stay

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Creativity

It, that immobile beast
Moves just an inch when all might’s used
Retracts a mile when you let go
Flings into the night
Moves fast under the spotlight
Caught only in a photograph
Blurred unless followed

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Hate and Consequence

Twenty-five sticks beat one at a time
It’s not the pain; it’s to survive
Body and soul become one stone
Anger is the saving throw

That one alone beat twenty-five
As all lay dead, all inside sinks
Ripples of conscience scald the skin
Therapy’s where the mind’s thrown in

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