This is me now…
I’ve been reminiscing today…reading my journal and that tattered notebook where I scribble poems. I haven’t been able to do that lately – reminiscing, I mean. It is a bittersweet experience. I read old...
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you held my hand today for just a moment, and for no romantic reason still, the memories returned. you make me remember and some times, i think, some times, maybe i can believe in you again.
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I think of you when it rains. I think of your laughter piercing the sweet sharp coolness of the air as we walk and talk under the cold, clear, rainwashed stars. I see it all again – the wet pavement...
View ArticleThe Saddest Lines
by Pablo Neruda* Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, ‘The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.’ The night wind revolves in the sky and sings....
View ArticleReminiscence and Regret
She sits alone in the silence of the city’s most opulent room In her aged hands, a bouquet of weeds Dry, brittle As fragile as memory itself and she remembers… Youth, in the countryside A young girl...
View ArticleFrangipani Evening
Midnight after a storm the world was asleep It was just us in the stillness in the scented air and the hundreds of frangipani blossoms fallen on the grass. The cold air, the fragrance the rainkissed...
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There is stillness here after the storm has spent its strength and its casualties of fallen frangipani flowers pervade the night air with fragrance. There is silence here not even a whisper or a breath...
View ArticleThe Notebook
I had to tiptoe to find it on the topmost shelf – that old notebook where my highschool friends wrote their farewell messages just before graduation. It’s been a long time since I last opened its...
View ArticleCaffeine Buzz
Coffee shops are made for reminiscing. So I sit here, inhaling the fragrant steam from the cup in my hands, and think about our recent goodbye. About the casual hug and the even more casual “You take...
View ArticleBy the sea
I went out with a friend today. We went out and we sat by the ocean, and somehow the conversation turned to the first one who broke my heart. Suddenly, I found myself talking about you again, after...
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