Muse

Ten years living and dead have drawn apart I do nothing to remember But I cannot forget Your lonely grave a thousand miles away … Nowhere can I talk of my sorrow – Even if we met, how would you know me My face full of dust My hair like snow? In the dark of [...]

FROM LOVE TO FRIENDSHIP F YOU would have me love once more, The blissful age of love restore; From wine’s free joys, and lovers’ cares, Relentless time, who no man spares, Urges me quickly to retire, And no more to such bliss aspire. From such austerity exact, Let’s, if we can, some good extract; Whose [...]

This is a poem written by Renirma Gutierrez and was published in KUWADERNO.  KUWADERNO is the literary folio of White & Blue, the official student publication of Saint Louis University in Baguio City, Philippines.  This poem was specifically published in the KUWADERNO, Volume 5, Copyright 2004 and was printed by the MJC Press Corporation. This [...]

So after all you needed more than a death threat fall You needed more, and I let you fall Into the coffin with your floor-drooped jaw And I remember your aspirations, dreams to fit in So let’s kill these felons now But I remember you You’ll go; you’ll find your way back home And I [...]

The time will come, when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each smile at the other’s welcome. and say, sit here.  Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine.  Give bread.  Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger [...]

This is a poem written by Queen Ann Boleyn while in her cell in the Tower Of London. O DEATH, ROCK ME ASLEEP Anne Boleyn Death, rock me asleep, Bring me to quiet rest, Let pass my weary guiltless ghost Out of my careful breast. Toll on, thou passing bell; Ring out my doleful knell; [...]

by King Henry VIII If love now reigned as it has been And were rewarded as it has seen, Noble men then would surely ensearch All ways whereby they might it reach. But envy reigns with such disdain And causes lovers outwardly to refrain, Which puts them to more and more, Inwardly, most grievous and [...]

They All Want to Play Hamlet They all want to play Hamlet. They have not exactly seen their fathers killed Nor their mothers in a frame-up to kill, Nor an Ophelia lying with dust gagging the heart, Not exactly the spinning circles of singing golden spiders, Not exactly this have they got at nor the [...]

by D.H Lawrence When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker round me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be. Nay, though the pole-star Is blown out like a candle, And all the heavens are wandering in disarray, Yet when pleiades of [...]

12/04/2006 22:50 We again took some more of our stuff from our little niche in Aurora Hill to bring to Kias where we now reside. Along with these ‘stuff’ are bits and pieces of papers I had kept, well, they used to be pinned to the corkboard we had behind our bedroom door but when [...]