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Bare-naked Identity
' spread my appendages like the Vitruvian man
I'm as bare and naked as I can ever be...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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Empty Nest
Insomnia is an ally of restlessness;
While trauma, a result of feeling helpless
Trapped between two evils—what a dilemma...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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A Mélange Of Seasons
So proud and bright are the leafs of Spring, glist'ning
I hear the twitter of tiny birds hiding...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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Mukashi No Koto Ni Sayonara
Try to keep your old flames
As your present candles,
To remind you who you are,
To cast you light when it's dark...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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Impressions
My bonnet is like a sonnet;
Don't ask me why
Oh how lovely—
Isn't that 'Nympheas' by Monet...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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Plague
"What does profit a plagiarist if he gains the Word
but loses the command of his own Pen"—Rain Paggao
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Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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Warm
Cackle here, cackle there,
The crows are everywhere
Sun is bright, Sun is warm,
Oh, I can feel his charm...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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Pope
Steady rain on April's first Sunday's
Pouring forth—teardrops of the sky,
Mourning for the death of the Pope—
A man came in the name of God;
A good man came and went...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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Is Sadness The Default Emotional State For Every Being And Happiness A Temporary Sensory Plane On Which All Try Hard To Be And Maintain Being There?
Is
Sadness
the
Permanent
Emotional
State
in
Which
Every
Being
Exists
and
Happiness
Only
a
Temporary
State
of
Mind
or
Emotion--the
Ultimate
or
Ideal
Feeling
which
We
Try
Hard
to
Possess
But
Never
Will...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Opinions
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My Dozen Animal Friends
The first gifts I ever gave to my niece six-year-old Amber was an animal book This was my way of influencing her into developing a fascination for animals and a love for books; for I myself, as a child used to, and now continues to be fascinated with the peculiarities of animals and to be smitten by books...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Pets
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The Essentials Of Norse Mythology
Complex but interesting, Norse mythology is the pre-Christian religion of the Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish peoples...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Culture
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Plucking Leafs From My Tree Of Memories (Chapter One: The First Leaf)
I was about six years old when I first had the narcissistic idea that I would be great someday—when my father told me, “'Para kang si Jose Rizal, ah...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Short Stories
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Sonnets For Rain
{to Rain Paggao, a bandmate, a best friend, and the brother I never had}
*Rain*
Your brilliant words were magical;
They always lit my mind...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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A Poet To His Future Wife
{to my fiancée, Charlotte Belialba}
If you met me in my youth
In the days I was wilder and freer
Could you have loved me still...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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A Poet To His Firstborn
Finally I found the lady
Who would be your mother and fairy
Lucky you for
She is all whom I could ever wish for
Your mother and I
Have been friends way before
We began to love each other
Or should I say,
In our hearts we have been loving each other
Long before we decided to be together
You may have come late in your parents' lives
But that's the very reason you are special
Not only to us but also to all the people
Who care about us
I promise you that
Whatever happens
We will give you everything
You will ever need
I'm sure too
That your mother will love you
As much as she loves me and as I love you
Just promise me two things:
As you grow up
Love to learn, read, and write—
For this is the key to
Understanding the world and
Accepting thy neighbors for what and who they are
And most importantly
Love and respect your mother
As much as I respect and love her
- 12:55 p...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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A Poet To His Mother
I may have not been too vocal in the past
Of my respect and love—for they are so vast
An old ballad sings: "Some good things never last"
But in me, O Mother, may you put your trust
My childhood memories with you and Father
Are in my heart well-kept—be lost they'll never
Our countless strolls in Luneta and Ongpin
Were magical as the lamp of Aladdin
Your well-cried tears and heartily shed laughter
Till my twilight I will always remember
To be happy for and love one another
You taught us how—my lovely sisters and me
Forgiveness in our hearts, you said, should be free
The reason we persevere to be better
The pains and sacrifices that you've been through
I shared them all with you; you know it is true
Every ups-and-downs, you're always there beside
Me—believing, comforting, reassuring
Like a hen, you reared us single-handedly
Like chicks, we followed you affectionately
I might have pecked and
Scratched you from time to time
Whatever pain I'd caused you...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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A Poet To His Father
I tried so hard to understand
Why did it have to be us
Your gift that year was a broken home
Gone in our lives then you were suddenly
I remember the tales you used to tell
There in my crib I would listen so well
An ode of forgiveness now gently plays
From me and them and her to you
Out of sadness and gloom into brightness and heaven
For so many years, for your return I'd yearned
Wounds, healed; scars, gone; a fresh new start
An unbroken chord on the guitar is set to be strummed
A brighter chapter in our lives has long begun
Pains and tears are now once upon...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Poetry
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Will Doubtlessly Be Reaping In Old Age What We
The time is 11:20 in the morning
My grandfather and I had just come back thirty minutes ago from our regular morning walk in the neighborhood...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Aging
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Age And Experience Can Really Mellow
Every time I revisit the 'eLf ideas' newsletters
That I used to make and distribute in the late
Nineties and reread what I had written in those days,
I can still smile at the ideas I was able to
Churn out at that age and with having no formal
Background in writing; however, I now usually
Find myself blushing in shame at the way I
Brusquely expressed many ideas and views—often
Arrogant, couldn't-care-less, lots of
Neologisms, verbose rather than eloquent,
Flamboyant rather than precise...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Aging
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The Plagiarist
Short and simple yet direct and bold for the meantime, here's something for plagiarists Initially I thought of writing a longer article about PLAGIARISM, but eventually I decided: "What for...
Author: .aLfie .vera .mella - Category: Writing
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