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'Love after life'

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

15 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…

13 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,…

12 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…

9 February 20261 min read

'Confluence'

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

14 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.…

9 January 20261 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.

7 January 20262 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.

19 December 20251 min read

'Latak'

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

19 December 20251 min read

'A Visit from St. Nicholas'

First published in 1823, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore is in the public domain. Daily Tribune republishes the short story in full for its…

15 December 20252 min read

'The beauty of the night'

They sang the praises of the morn, How light shines and crosses the fields, Blanketing it with the golden glow, And wielding the power of hope it yields.

12 December 20251 min read

'How does nothing weigh so much?'

Billowing towards a gaping hole,

11 December 20251 min read

'Needle and thread'

"Because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

9 December 20251 min read

'Decembers'

Decembers of merry have flown And have left me with but a clone Of something that I once knew But now something that paints me blue.

1 December 20251 min read

'Parapraxis'

I am afraid that I cannot write A happy story⸺imbued with light. For even when I write about the stars, My words find themselves within the scars Of rivers of…

26 November 20251 min read

'Should Tonight Be My Last Night'

Should tonight be my last night, I want to leave you this: Know there's nothing else You could've done. There are no more clues You might have missed.

25 November 20251 min read

'Autumn leaves'

Through the trees and through the rain, I run from time unfolding in vain. Eager to escape the hold of the past, And jump to the embrace of the future at last.

24 November 20251 min read