Happy Birthday to You!

One evening, my friends and I went out for dinner. We took the taxi to reach our favorite restaurant – Kamayan. We cannot wait the taxi to pull over to the place for we are already hungry as a bear. Because of this, we told the driver to speed up. We realized soon after that the driver was very hungry as well. He told us that he was actually planning to eat on the same place we intended to dine. So, as we reached the place, all of us got out the taxi right off the bat. Then sadly we discovered t… Continue

I am always enthusiastic about composing Visayan songs. But, I don’t usually follow the crowd in writing my compositions. Instead of the most common “rude” or “sexist” songs that many Visayan artists/bands are now singing over Radyo Bisdak, for instance, I prefer to write songs concerning life, love, or our very existence as humans. I am actually not paid for this. I just feel that I belong more to my culture as a Visayan if I make Visayan songs. What can I take out from doing this? Well, maybe… Continue

Mommy Olivia once asked
to her five years old daughter and said,
"Vanessa, what's life?"
Vanessa pout then smiled
and said,
"Mommy I don't know."
"Is it watermelon?"
"Is it strawberry?"
"Is it potato?"
"I really don't know."
But Mommy Olivia heared
Vanessa's answer laughed and said back,
"Yeah right."
"You are really right."
"Thank you anyway."
"I now understand."
That day Mommy Olivia just smiled
and felt better than ever. She knows
Vanessa was right. Life isn't complicated.
Looking at it in th… Continue

When love comes,
life is its promise

when love turns to gratefullness,
life is sustained by its promise

when love endures all pains and trials,
life is alive forever surpassing its misfortune

When you send me your morning greetings
you're holdin' my heart with your warm being
i just wish this love will never end
i just wish, you're with me until the end

When you ask me about my day going
i feel like i'm just on my day dreaming
you fill my empty heart every moment of my day
i wish you will never get tired with me

When i think about the times we spent together
i know it's a mistake, i know where i stand
but i can't stand to my heart's longing
you, in my tender hands and the soft touc… Continue

silently in solitude
as I listened to myself
within

gracefully permitting
sopoforic rustle of thoughts
to flow through

I was helplessly
trapped in a whirling eddy
of words

words building
worlds exploding
quantum leaping

swiftly dissappearing
in unmeasured time
into the void

so taken
by the moment
I felt lost

and as I ease
myself and cease
to hold on

without effort
I returned exactly
at the same spot

where
I was
before


everything
is clear
now

such a good
place and time
to be

everythin… Continue

Through an ant's view
an unhindered eye of a needle;
words are breathing.
An ongoing flow,
yet I am in trance

But your glazed-over eyes
are oblivious of the wind.
Your words are sharp,
scathing my senses
If only in silence you can see
the dream that drifts...

Puffed up podiums
are like balloons when pricked.
Together with the dust;
we are minuscules consumed
by the hollow of the earth.

Strands of words
are but tools spiralling
in zigzag course; trapped
in pride.
may the wind take us,
let the… Continue

Pwedeng mahigugma ka sa makadaghan
Pwedeng kumkumon nimo silang tanan
Pwedeng magpa-ulipon ka sa imong pagkahakog

Apan ingnon ko ikaw daan
Dili maangkon ang tanan sa pagdali-dali
Adunay butang nga nalatid nang mahitabo
Sa insaktong higayon ug rason

Sama nianang balas nga imong… Continue

soul-searching
probing deep
centering
in the midst of sleep

earthly pleasures
bar the gate
towards treasures
neither love nor hate

lies and truth
uncovered
lifes fate
lay undiscoverd

useles useless
still like
a kitten trying
to catch its tail

here my body
lies underground
my soul yet
has to be found


if in our dreams
we still are blind
how can a dead man
probe his mind

useless useless
still like
a kitten trying
to catch its tail

womb
tomb
life and death
cycle rebirth

take me to
a formles… Continue