MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Poetry by Ennie-Marie Dacut Ilasco
I was never Filipino to them,
just someone who belonged
to everyone else.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Oct 3, 2021
- 1 min
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
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Oct 3, 2021
- 1 min
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
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Oct 3, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Natasha King
What was the summer if it
wasn't for us?
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Verna Zafra-Kasala
Wildflowers grow
through the cracked mouth
of the parking lot where
I had my first kiss
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Sep 28, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
and you’re crying in them. you were always
crying back then, but you don’t remember
anymore
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Sep 28, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Catherine Liao
Every crime
goes unpunished
under the watchful eye
of empire.
How else do you think
revolutions are born?
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Aug 8, 2021
- 1 min
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.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Aug 8, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Neen Ramos
Defiance will carry me through my last days,
Amidst the terror of the night, over the coastal waters of Cavite
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Aug 8, 2021
- 1 min
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
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Aug 8, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Pratiksha Sharma
the peak of sadness is on my PMS
and packages of western countries
for dousing my boredom.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Aug 7, 2021
- 1 min
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
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Aug 7, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Grace Beilstein
We need lines,
where feelings distract
and the way you — oh you! — look at me
lingers and makes me forget
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Aug 7, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Aug 7, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Juliette Sebock
Take a step—
move toward the light,
the dark, the moment.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Aug 7, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I want you to be like me. I want
you to have reasons to live.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Jul 5, 2021
- 4 min
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
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Jun 29, 2021
- 1 min
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
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Jun 29, 2021
- 2 min
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.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
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
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