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Poetry by Ennie-Marie Dacut Ilasco
I was never Filipino to them,
just someone who belonged
to everyone else.
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Oct 4, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Jo Alvarado
i wish for a universe that is not so delicate
i cannot cope if it slips through my fingers
if i shatter in every alternate timeline
tell me
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Oct 3, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Jo Alvarado
my grandmother does not know how to forget
she has taught my mother the same
reminiscence has learned to worship grief
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Oct 3, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Natasha King
What was the summer if it
wasn't for us?
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Oct 3, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Verna Zafra-Kasala
Wildflowers grow
through the cracked mouth
of the parking lot where
I had my first kiss
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Sep 30, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
and you’re crying in them. you were always
crying back then, but you don’t remember
anymore
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Sep 28, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Catherine Liao
Every crime
goes unpunished
under the watchful eye
of empire.
How else do you think
revolutions are born?
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Sep 28, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Neen Ramos
let's drive until we reach Tagaytay.
Drink coffee overlooking the Taal Lake. And imagine there’s no such thing as a pandemic.
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Aug 8, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Neen Ramos
Defiance will carry me through my last days,
Amidst the terror of the night, over the coastal waters of Cavite
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Aug 8, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Pamela K. Santos
balik: fluid adj. state of return 🡺 to be home 🡺 to be bahay
: to buy flight cab out of bahay when no one
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Aug 8, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Pratiksha Sharma
the peak of sadness is on my PMS
and packages of western countries
for dousing my boredom.
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Aug 8, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Juliette Sebock
But brave isn’t a word I’d assign myself,
more deer-in-the-headlights, Rapunzel-eyes,
diving into confetti night skies to avoid
any mention
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Grace Beilstein
We need lines,
where feelings distract
and the way you — oh you! — look at me
lingers and makes me forget
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Grace Beilstein
Beats, Beat, Beat, Beat Up music pours from the ever-shared vein waxes and wanes pads on shy feet. knowing what’s wrong in the mind, is...
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Juliette Sebock
Take a step—
move toward the light,
the dark, the moment.
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I want you to be like me. I want
you to have reasons to live.
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Jason Magabo Perez
or his throat, or his lungs, or his song, his body now
gills all over, now there, all the way over there
beyond this
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Jul 5, 20214 min read
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Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
the spaghetti tastes jollier when it costs a six-and-a-half hour drive to jacksonville, florida, the closest home of jolly spaghetti
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Jun 29, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Juliette Sebock
as if the memory of you left a trail,
breadcrumbs scattered like rose petals
along the aisle, perfect footprints
in the rose-white snow.
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Jun 29, 20212 min read
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Poetry by Maria Bolaños
there's a layer of dust on my crocodile skin
i've been in southern california so long
the hawk cuts an arc in the sky and agrees
MarÃas at Sampaguitas
May 20, 20211 min read
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