for love and poetry: second edition ‘Your heart’s a maze … your love’s a riddle’ The second edition of #forloveandpoetry not only revisits the first edition which was published in […]

Can I melt. right this moment?    Like a sculpted candle.  waxing and waning,   wary of your flickering smile.  wanting to caress every inch of you.  wallowing in mixed and dazed madness.  wafting in the […]

Despite what threatens between the two of us land-grabbed territories and disputed seas false promises, debt traps, missing antibodies I would have kissed you back, again and again If only […]

Tell me a secret. and my lips will touch your ear. like a feather, like a flower, and I will sing you a song. Then your eyes will look at […]

Sunny eyes and gleaming teeth warm the still empty space in my room. Even in the middle of the night I hear the rumbling from his belly deep almost mimicking […]

No evening is not a night of song as soon as the clock’s bow strikes the strings of my heart. I shall hum the last few lines of our au […]

But you couldn’t even read my mindeven if I were an open book, so to speak,a conduit for expletives and clichés if I were only, truly, as you imagined For […]

You cannot sing your breath is gushing with water your lungs are pumping gasps instead of gas When love is a cube perfected extremes that stretch straight to the core […]

Open the windows and let the scarce summer wind conjure figments and fragments distant memories. Remember how we were told to stay indoors from March until May only to let […]

Once more, I write on paper once more, I acquaint myself with an object so familiar with my eyes, nose, lips, fingertips and ears once more, I write on paper. […]

Spaces are shaped by sound, the ticking time allows me to see. Eyes shut, I find many ways to sleep but there’s no way to silence my heartbeat. Sounds shaped […]

The dawn breaks again, tears two worlds apart— day from night, light from dark,  lip from lip, reality from reality, you from me.  There’s thunder in your arms, lightning in […]

To write this part I don’t just sit back I sleep. I throw my pen and paper like I would fling about the covers and sheets let the dreaming begin […]

Once more, I write on paper once more, I acquaint myself with an object so familiar with my eyes, nose, lips, fingertips and ears once more, I write on paper. […]

Despite the golden calm in Singapore and the late afternoon midsummer sun, my fluttering, fleeting heart is flooding as if the hovering typhoon in all of Manila made landfall in […]