Stone Gods

the galaxy is a turntable and the sky is sound

the moon has a mini saturn
belt on its equator i am
lying in the middle the
record is turning i am above
it the music is oblivion we
are planetary the sky fish
swim in it you are my galaxy
gravity geometry god you
are my planet blue vitruvian
man solar system skywalker
milkshakes and the
eyelash on your cheek
piano playing pirouettes
classical my heart i am galaxy
and you are the earth
metallic hydroxide breathe
air water life the force is 
within the skyscrapers of 
rainbows carnival eonstellar
transcendental trance i am the
constellation of your soul is
the sky

Soul Project: Meditation Prayer

I came across this prayer I wrote almost two years ago in Baguio for our Creative Writing course. And because yesterday was Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, I decided to post this just to awaken a sense of spirituality and faith in these "challenging times" of my never-ending search for words and of my journey to the Self and beyond.

My Everlasting Flame

I am here now. I am here painting in Your canvass; mixing colors, shaping distorted thoughts, dipping my paint brush into water for new strokes. Lead me to the path that never ends, the road to nowhere where I can lose myself and find, little by little, the place where home is a state of mind, because I will be a nomad travelling barefooted, making the ground as my bed, the sky is the roof above my head and there will be no wall to hide me from the world, only windows to open myself to You.

I will set myself on fire to let my desires burn, to keep me warm in times when my heart gives in to the cold. My flames will reach the heavens. My flames will devour the sky. But only You can be the wind or the water that extinguishes the fire, and only You can let me 

Burn Burn. Burn.  

Soul Project: Journey Into the Self Through Words, Baguio, September 2011

Atlantis

Submerge

These tears are like

Stinging saltwater in my eyes.

I wish to drown myself so as

Not to feel the pain of salt

Touched by wind and sun.

Open my eyes underwater

And breathe until I sink

In the ocean floor.

Abandoned.

Shipwrecked.

Dead.

No—

I never reached your shores.

The waves of your waters

Pushed me away.

Until I abandoned

Myself.

Atlantis—

Lost and forgotten

In sands of time—

Found me.

Hair, There and Everywhere

One afternoon in December, my hair decided to make "waves" in front of the camera. I love how it's so light and free that I could just run around without having to comb it. I never do. 

I shall color it with the shades of the earth one day. 

(c) Dennis

Palimpsest

If it wasn't for this word, I would not have stumbled upon such a masterpiece. 

I Will Write in Words of Fire 

By Neil Gaiman

Image by David Mack

I will write in words of fire.

I will write them on your skin.

I will write about desire.

Write beginnings, write of sin.

You're the book I love the best,

your skin only holds my truth,

you will be a palimpsest

lines of age rewriting youth.

You will not burn upon the pyre.

Or be buried on the shelf.

You're my letter to desire:

And you'll never read yourself.

I will trace each word and comma

As the final dusk descends,

You're my tale of dreams and drama,

Let us find out how it ends.

Then and Danao

The Plunge

Uno.

Dos.

Tres.

Bombs away!

Explode

To a billion lightyears away

Into the outerspace of

Tomorrow never ends.

Freefall on a rain day

Wash away your regrets

Bleed a spectrum of

Emotions

Cries of fear

To epic laughter

Ugly happy--

Fall

Into life’s oblivion

Fly 

To the world’s end.

Loss of gravity

Takes away all melancholy.

(Bohol, 2009)

Wild Fire

Creating moments in space

Painting butterflies on my face.

The thunder growls,

Howls I hear amid the falling rain, and

Like a stray animal—

Lost—

I go insane.

But cradled in your arms

I am wild, I am tame.

*I found this the other day among others I wrote a few years ago. If I can remember correctly, I wrote this some time in November of 2010, most probably a Saturday as I was riding through the motion of lights in the night rain, my mind lost in the oblivion of her eyes...