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Asian Writer
Poetry, Fiction in English and Filipino by Ysabel SanPedro-Schuld
Monday, April 11, 2011
Past Articles on Business Star
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Keep on dreaming
A lollipop. A teddy bear.
A swatch watch
You keep me happy.
You gave me plenty
Five thousand pesos
Ten thousand kisses
Three long-stemmed roses…
You were my man
My master,
My dream,
My world.
When can we meet?
You say, “Tomorrow my dear”
I beg
I stole
I borrowed
Yet you can’t say no.
Nor could you let go.
Your mark tattooed on my thigh
more valuable than the Olympic Gold Medal
more eternal than my human soul
that’s the love you gave
Yeah, that’s what you say
Keep on dreaming.
One seed at a time
the scent of mangoes
the pulpness of lanzones
the headiness of chicos
the succulence of jackfruit
invades us
silent yet swift
we climb higher
inhale exhale deeper
I see blood flowing
as flagellants faint
in hot sun,
paramedics panic
life is a blur
as Holy Week howls
our carabaos cry
kneel in prayer…
the stickiness of rice
rhe slipperiness of okra
slide through my tongue
Mother says
“Eat your meal
Clean your soul”
as I swallow the revelry
exhale inhale deeper
taking in the mangoes
one seed at a time.
That day
shrapnel eyes
pierce through the veil
your rainbow cries
your dangling arms
i kept my silence
yet I cannot cry
nor can I weep
I see your face
that day
sallow
sunken
sad
sanguine
your songs
still reverberate
in my chakras
you are here
you never left
your whispers
tell me
it will be ok
i could not be
taking another step
once more
i touch this ground
that took you away
that day.
In time of need
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
We are made of
You and I
felt the murmurs
of mother earth
fill us
coddle us
and finally
snuff us
into oblivion
into its cradle
into its molten arms.
I remember you
pulling
each pedro
and every dick
out of passion
or was it a propaganda?
who knows
you hand was there
out to reach out
We need it
(oh, damn it!)
without forgetting
who we are
without obliterating
our own being.
going going gone
going on
going through
going east
going west
it is coming
you could not see
it’s clear
pure being
you sniff
you snort
you inhale
you exhale
you could not
get enough of it
you could not
get away from it
going on
going through
your eyes
your mind
your soul
its pure
its magnificent
its grace
is beyond words
you worship
its snow-like beauty
its lucidity
its eternity
going
going
gone.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Our Lady of Fatima in our Home
It's a Christian Catholic tradition to honor the mother of our Savior who assumes various "persona" such as "Our Lady of Fatima," "Our Lady of Perpetual Help," etc. Our Lady of Fatima was in our home recently. We had guests ... we prayed and shared a meal together.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Those Children
Freight car was home.
We retreat here when the sickle shines
Our pinkies aren’t pink anymore
Our tugboat of coconut shells
and our threadbare paddles
made us experts in attaching fishhooks to
snells. A holler of herring, haddock,
trout or salmon gave us oxygen to our
lungs. We clamp the air into crates,
then we negotiate in the marketplace.
The only perils we face are those
hammerheads and sea bass skulking
in high tide.
I also shuck oysters in exchange
for an apple cider.
Those green crabs come in swatches
yet we collect them in our zinc pails.
Those schooners dock in the quay
It is drowsy in the pier
We disengage our rusty treble hooks,
ungrip those sculls from our oars
positioning our shittah rudder plank,
trawler’s nets and our main catch
for the day
Tomorrow we will greet the sunkist
Our catgut lines are our shivs,
our threadbare needles,
our veins.
Now, we return home
In livid flashlights
We perked up our gas lanterns
savoring every flicker
as the outside grew glimmer
and fainter with the last sip of
black coffee.
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black coffee,
children,
coconut shells,
crabs,
crates,
fishhook,
freight car,
gas lanterns,
glimmer,
haddock,
herring,
marketplace,
needles,
oysters,
salmon,
trout,
veins
Note on "Mirrors" and "Eternity"
"Mirrors" and "Eternity " are experimental poetry I did in 2006. I just wrote these in white heat with simple split second images or words without filtering them in my mind.. They did earn a tuition discount to join summer literary seminar workshop in Lamu, Africa.. but i was not able to join...
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Banker,
fictionist,
journalist,
Poetess,
Ysabel San Pedro - Schuld
Mirrors
we look
we discover
we search
we find
we conquer
we taste
we savor
we digest
we consume
we beget
we despise
we deny
ourselves…
the passion
the drive
the rush
the love
the money
the fame
the power
the joy
the sorrow
the happiness
tabula rasa
we dream
facing the sun
without wincing
looking straight
through the light
we disintegrate
we forget
we pray
we learn
we rise
we believe
in ourselves again.
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mirrors,
tabula rasa
Eternity
Coconut milk
sugar and vinegar
snails and slugs
mix, I match
I let them roll
simmer in between
celery leaves
bittergourd skins
I seethe
I sweat
I open up
I extract
the essence of its taste
under its solemn fire
it brews
it bakes
it blooms
in every blow
in every breathe
in every palette
We touch
We imagine
every bite
of its meat
of its juice
trickle in
like passing
through
eternity.
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bittergourd,
celery leaves,
coconut milk,
eternity,
snails,
sugar,
vinegar
Friday, March 25, 2011
My Garden Wedding
Roger and I walking towards the altar...
in his parents' garden in Milwaukee, Oregon
Slicing our home-made carrot wedding cake
baked by one of Roger's relatives
Our carrot cake was really delicious...
Our wedding invitation
More Memories of Writing Theatre Life at Repertory
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