lyrical poetry

Nick Deocampo explores queer identity in poetry collection

Filmmaker and historian Nick Deocampo is stepping into deeply personal literary territory with the release of Shards of Desire , a four-volume poetry…

DT24 May 20262 min read

food for the soul vol. 3

Love is not reciprocal It is unconditional Love is blind to the peripheral It sees only the essential.

Bernie V. Lopez8 May 20263 min read

'Falling stars'

From the poetry collection "I've lived 100 times, and I've died 200 times."

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial2 March 20261 min read

'Summer'

Sweet summer’s kiss arrives In flurries of golden hues, Banishing away the cold From simpering icy blues.

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial2 March 20261 min read

Call for entries for the government’s longest running poetry contest in Filipino

National Artists Virgilio S. Almario, Bienvenido Lumbera and Cirilo Bautista have been Talaang Ginto winners

DT1 March 20261 min read

Writing poetry with objects and everything in between

She does not write poems with ink or line breaks. Instead, she composes them with wood scraps, pencil stubs, perfume bottles, mirrors and fragments of lived…

Danie Taub15 February 20264 min read

'Love after life'

From the poetry collection "I’ve Lived 100 Lives, and I’ve Died 200 Times."

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial15 February 20261 min read

'After you'

Slivers of morning catch In morning dew. Sleep-encrusted eyes Gaze up adoringly at you. Your hair, a nest where I can Make a home, And your skin, I trace Like…

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial13 February 20261 min read

'Sussuros de mi corazon'

Full of heartache's song and insipid cries, Thus mine love in forlorn chambers lie. Never daring to rouse and awake within, Accepting of bleak, morose,…

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial12 February 20261 min read

'Para mi amor'

Of sunsets, kisses, and whispered words, This love unravels its strands and unfurls. Branching out and reaching my heart, Unbearing, unaccepting of worlds…

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial11 February 20261 min read

'Do you really love them, or just the idea of them?'

Green canopies and orange sunlight, A beacon for Eros' arrows of might, And within the eye of gentle morn, A spark of perfection, cradled and born. Snapshot…

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial9 February 20261 min read

'Confluence'

Sing to me, A throat that Bleeds. A voice silenced, Either by force Or by virtue of Position.

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial14 January 20261 min read

'Mosaic'

My face is a combination of all the faces of my ancestors. My mother's friend sliced some tomatoes for me when i was a kid, and I've loved tomatoes since then.…

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial9 January 20261 min read

'Between Before/After'

A lone sparrow flies through the sky, each outstretched wing a blade. The sky is not cut, but the air slices, ripples, lands on my skin. The flight of that…

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial7 January 20264 min read

'LAHAT-HALA': Bukas para sa submissions

LAHAT-HALA: Mga tinig ng Pilipino, para sa kapwa Pilipino. Isang creative writing project ng Dyaryo Tirada.

DT7 January 20262 min read

Poetry for all seasons

A lesson I learned is that poetry, even as crude as mine, can be learned by anyone, particularly if one is as tongue-tied as me.

Bing Matoto30 December 20254 min read

'Li[eb]chen'

Love does not come When a rose blooms, And warmth spreads Across cheeks—watercolour Painted by a caress of the Fingertips.

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial19 December 20251 min read

'Latak'

Lumunok siya, Hibla ng damit, Unti-unting hinila Mula sa kamisetang Matagal nang Nalalanta, para Tumahimik, kumakalam Na sikmura.

Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial19 December 20251 min read