MarÃas at Sampaguitas
Poetry by b. pick
She loves me, she loves me not,
Time will only tell as she pluck-pluck-plucks away my petals.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- May 16, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by KC Bailey
Don’t know where she went
the young girl
singing in the mirror –
Crowded House and REM
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- May 15, 2021
- 2 min
Poetry by Christian Aldana
We look up at the sky and see blue; uninterrupted
and no one tells us we need to step out of the sun
our skin a cloudless glow, we stretch
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- May 15, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Florina Rivera
Because I can’t see your eminence
while you're crushing and washing out your gem
in never ending rivers full of cautioning ink.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- May 15, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I haven’t figured out what good parenting looks like
maybe a dollar to not skip class two
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- May 15, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Victoria Bautista
Would you have loved me
If they called me Jasmine
Instead of Sampaguita
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- May 10, 2021
- 2 min
Poetry by Asela Lee Kemper
With Tamar’s jokes and my elders’
faces flash on tweet after tweet Rest In Peace,
I don’t want to be here.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- May 1, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
the showers are
too weak
in our new house,
or else I am too weak,
letting water pass
right through me
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
Poetry by Jean Allynn
how do we show up in our stories,
when elders are no longer around?
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Apr 20, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Liaa Melissa
When asked why I still have faith
after all these years, I wonder how could you not?
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Apr 20, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
conjuring the Sahara
in our orange hallways & together
trekking across those impossible sands.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Apr 6, 2021
- 2 min
Poetry by Ellie Lopez
Mami tells me this spell as we pass the rosemary in the garden. As she carefully grabs a stem, placing it between the palms of her hands.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Apr 3, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
It has been three seasons since I last saw you, she hums. I was beginning to forget your face.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Mar 20, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I’m running out of options. because I like
the impossible sound of a typing speed
that isn’t going anywhere.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Mar 14, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Tiffany Nicole Pigeé
breathe in real deep. and release
from the pit of your soul. and the
seat of your spirit. wail
like a banshee.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Mar 9, 2021
- 2 min
Poetry by Grace Beilstein
If you smile, you’re American,
pushing happiness off as a goal post
and not a choice made every glorious, American day.
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
Poetry by Christine Fojas
homebody | cocoon | 2020 atrophied some of my hard won progress | change that officially by calling | 2021 the year of
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Mar 4, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Juliette Sebock
I see your photo and imagine
you must have been sweet
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Mar 4, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Juliette Sebock
I learnt to believe
that bad things
come in threes
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MarÃas at Sampaguitas
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
& her handshake is an embrace.
The second mystery is that she smiles
the vowels of my name
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