Alibangbang poems

Munogtapos dun tulad nga semana ang ginalantaw namon nga Kdrama, It's Okay to Not be Okay kag significant symbol ang alibangbang sa plot kag sa characters... amo ra nga nadumduman ko man ang akon fascination sa mga alibangbang... something beautiful but fleeting...

Butterfly Thoughts

15 June 2000

Thoughts

assault me

like butterflies

fluttering in the breeze

flirting with the wind

elusive

yet attainable

somehow

I cupped my hands

to catch one

but it just dances

out of reach

I tried to catch another

but this one

flew away too

leaving echoes

of laughter

to mock me.

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Of Poems and Butterflies

18 June 2000

With flowery words

I lure my butterfly thoughts

trapping them

in webs of white

among my metaphors.

My pen tears off

their wings

as it stabs

their naked bodies

till ink oozes out

in red and black

And as they writhe

and moan

and bleed

I write my poems.