12/30/06, Saturday

A get-together. A December-born birthday celeb. I (12/19/ ), my sister (12/25/ ) and my son,(12/28/ ). For guests we got my sister, her daughter and her daughter's husband and 2 kids- a boy and a girl. The food - beef, poultry, fish, noodles , veggies and rice. Of course, we have the birthday cake and the three blew the candles amid the clicking of the digital camera.

Over conversations ranging from private to public to religious, political and civics, the get-together was memorable.

Goodbye to the old Year and welcome of the New Year ! And we fondly hope it would be promising...

Two Poems

12/26/06
Longing for a Meaning


Melancholy crept in as I gazed
at the hedges surrounding
the garden of my past. I saw
myself, a mere speck of anonymity,
longing for a greater meaning
in this crazy world.

Suddenly...

My eyes welled with tears
and the moon of December wryly smiled.
I was swept into the vortex of poetic verses
and vaunted love songs. Yesterdays' memories
commenced to carve out hollow cavities
compelling me to untangle the
doubts about my existence.

I ambled over to find a spot at the table
so I could have a gulp of turmeric,
black pepper and honey.

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 (12/02/06)

In My world

You stalked into my world like a phantom arrow
targetting straight through the eyes of my soul
in the coldness of a wintry night
so cold it penetrates in the very essence

of my loneliness.

I love you like a poem of an unknown poet
like the mystery of an enchanted mountain
like the gold is hidden in the savage forest

I love you because you came to me
and you are you.

Immaculate Conception...
Magnificat
And the angel Gabriel announced to Mary
that she will bear a son and
He shall be called
Jesus.
The serpentine promise of immortality
in the Garden started the war
of good and evil.

two women: one defiled
the other undefiled.