newFilipina.com

 
Copy was initially for the ad going in a local fil-am newspaper to invite people to our booth at the New York City Philippine Independence Day Celebration. This was a time when I began to find the words to articulate my experience and exploration of www.newfilipina.com, what it meant to be a filipina in the [...]

written long ago, more meaningful and powerful now

oh, my love, 
true Self knows
no such lover
as misery 
through time
through pain
you find your Self
you come
back to you
you are new
and fresh
and so with me
far away
from the ruins
we rebuild
 

i watched as little self
lay with Ms. Ery
night after night
i call to you
you do not come
out of misery’s bed
do you love her more than me?
can you leave her and come back to me?
true Self knows no such lover
 
 
february 2007

Wisdom is the eternal
Fountain of Light
That you discover within you
When you push aside
The Darkness of Fear

For years, this video has moved me deeply and has let me think about pain. what causes it? who causes it? is anyone to blame?
The Host Of Seraphim, by Dead Can Dance

i remember now.
what it was that i used to do.
what it is that i seek.
what it is i want to do.
i just forgot.
because pain [...]

do they take or do they give or do they take and give and give and give or do they take? do they serve kings themselves the smurfs the almighty ka-ching do they masturbate with world order WMDs is masturbating noble? claws? suckers? fangs? do they scare you? do they breed amongst themselves?
are they banging [...]

because i don’t know about it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist
because i cant comprehend vastness
doesn’t mean the Universe aint out there
how do i wrap my mind ’round the Universe?
i don’t. i let it in the top of my head through my feet
let it flow through me.
through prisms of liquid de
light. experiencing
the pluralism and pleasures of [...]

Book Review on 
Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole by Eileen Tabios
Excerpt from the poem Asthma 
“She feels what he sees: the lack of a mountain’s jade face. Traversed by a river flowing like my tears silvered by moonshine. Whose salt etched my cheeks when I watched an ocean seduce him. We share a fate perpetually revolving around water. [...]