i'm a little teapot

Snagged from boz4pm:

When you see this, post your favourite poem in your journal.

I'm posting poems that I love from two different languages because I cheat like that.

( For Example, A Flower by Arkaye Kierulf )

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( Ako ang Daigdig ni Alejandro G. Abadilla )

I fell in love with this when I first read it in a back issue of Heights. Just thought I'd share it with you.

(  I will be honest: I love the world and I am curiously happy. Nobody knows this because nobody knows. I would tell you about the time I grew my hair past the norm but I don't remember much about it because it never happened. This was another story. The world is incomplete and in a game of poker I lost all of my body-hair to a monkey. I will be honest: the sun is a flashlight and some divine idiot is checking on us once in a while in this eternal blackout. Watch out for me, my brothers! Before the next war I will be smug in my coffin wearing formal attire. I have been known, you know, to dress up extravagantly for such occasions. )

I was more chipper than normal today, according to Banzy, since I'm usually a "doom-y-ish" and "gloomy-ish" kind of person. I think it was because we escaped from having to endure lab. Hee.

Banzy and I watched Rush Hour 3 at Gateway earlier. It was...not really sucky, but the ending left us hanging and going all BWUH? o_O

Anyway, my good mood dissolved once I was right in the middle of crossing EDSA, because the rain fell straight down. Then, when I arrived home, I experienced having to be with a hyperactive little boy experiencing cabin fever. So far, I've had to reprimand him for: turning off the computer while I was still using it, hitting my sister because she happens to be in the same room with him, and not cleaning up after himself after playing with his toys. Needless to say, I am NOT looking forward to tomorrow, as classes are suspended in all levels again. JOY.

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A morbid and sad little something, because I'm in that kind of mood right now:

( Aralin sa Kasaysayan #3 (Kung Paano Pumatay ng Bata) ni Ramon C. Sunico )

I was cleaning up my harddrive, and I chanced upon this. Wrote it more than two years ago, and, reading it once again, I cringed. It didn't seem as sucky back when I first wrote it, but then again, I have the advantage of hindsight. Anyway, I decided to fix it and post it here. The original version can be found at fanfiction.net.

BTW, it used to be an Howl's Moving Castle fanfic. I modified it so that it become original poetry. XD

Title: Shadows
Author: baruchan
Genre: General, Poetry
Rating: G
Summary: Ponderings on the nature of love and shadows

( Love and shadow, shades of grey. )


feeling: contemplative
listening to: my sister's voice