the unabridged reader

Poetry

  • Strombolian

    The sensation can also be likened to that of a morsel that is being devoured by a monster. I am but a minuscule and insignificant existence; but I am being flattered by the monster’s physiology that refuses to metabolise me. So I remain stuck within its jaws; enduring perpetual chewing, grinding, bruising, tearing. Read more

  • Across the sea

    Unfurling the sails of my writing journey I am wallowing in so much regret and self-pity for abandoning my first love. And for what? For years of misdirection, stagnation, and even worse— regression? I am a daughter of an English Major. My childhood was filled with different types of children’s literature. Growing older, my tastes Read more

  • [Poem] From the Moon

    • 🌿 • And when you hear my nameor recall the way I lookDoes it make you think of happy timesor only the pain it took When you look at her faceand she doesn’t smileDoes it make you missthe tears I criedWhen we’re sat on the couchand I whispered howNot even light yearscan measure the Read more

  • [Poem] Out of the Woods

    • 🌿 • Lost in the woodsLured in by illusionsInside of a paradiseof tainted constitutions Time was lost and so were chancesCutting corners withIrrevocable grievancesThings I lovedThings that laid dormantThings that made meResurfaced with a vengeance A cycle of reclusion Commencing into oneMost questionable markThat is most compulsive, bar none ___L U Z A N Read more

  • [Reflection] Cookie Cream Bar

    As I was eating a cookie cream bar outside a room, trying to wake myself up, I looked in the mirror. I scanned the room behind me and I thought of my old house- the alternating patterns of little triangles on the stairs, the wooden curtain beneath it, hiding treasures from countries unknown. In my Read more

  • [Poem]

    • 🌿 • She yearns for that which she fearsShe burns for it so deep, so clear She freezes upon its beck and callShe knows enough to fear the fall Lost is the heart that sits and churnswho dreads and waits for its next turn There’s nowhere to come back toAnd nowhere to come back Read more

  • [Poem] Tension

    Everytime I call your name, Does this heart’s yearning reach you? At night I see just these four corners, I am a prison of a regretful past. My darling, it’s only you that remains. But your silence is giving me pain. I hear you, loud and clear. Though I wish I can cut my ear. Read more

  • [Poem] Losing Ground

    • 🌿 • the words i have were infinite always present, always living and then they vanished- sudden, fast something devoured the words I had until the glass is full of it so full it looks empty- blank, dark i tried to say something but came up with nothing i was left with nothing but Read more

  • [Poem] Polaris

    • 🌿 • I wander the world with a path unfathomed And dilly dallies that stopper my momentum I built my windows wide and tall But shadows sometimes hover and crawl At times I fold, and night becomes long My thoughts welcomed the eternal fall But despite the toss and turns and furls Polaris stays Read more

  • [Poem] Ulilang Pangarap

    • 🌿 • Sa pagdaan ng oras, araw at taon,Ang dapat mawala’y hindi na naglaonAko’y sabik parin sa pagkakataon, Sa’yong mga titig na kay lambing noonNgunit ayoko nang masaktan na muli,Sa paghangad sa iyong naglahong yumiAno ba ang sanhi, ba’t ito binawi?Hanggang kailan itong puso magtitimpi? Isang gabing hindi na matapos-taposAno ang kahulugan ng bawat kilos?Alalahanin ang Read more

  • Poem – In Time

    • 🌿 • I can’t buy you a house, but I’ll give you a home. Against whatever odds, I’ll be your comfort zone. From morning ’til night, I am sure to nag. As sure as I will listen, each time you lag. I’ll push you to the edge until you’re flying. We’ll soar then converge Read more

  • Poem – Still Thankful

    • 🌿 • An hour past midnight, and my heart is thumping. Because I am anguished- For the times lost that I could never relive; for the happiness that was only a reprieve. Because I am anxious- For being mundane and powerless to know the “will’s”. If I can just glimpse on the “then’s” of Read more