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: ::: ::::: :::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: :::::::::: ::::: ::: : Overfilled dams released khaki-brown rainwaters, while slate gray stormy winds brought down houses and lamp posts, helpless trees were uprooted, branches, sliced off their trunks greens became hues of dark olive-brown. red roofs floated, fire came in their midst rain wasn't crystal clear as it used to be death's color became faded elephant gray lives were snatched as hands held tight, emotions died in those brown flood waters 2020 painted my country's canvas with the gloomiest shades of sepia still, my people rise from inundation, gray lava and tremors, while they breathe, they live on, as before. ::::::: ::::: ::: : Sally Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan November 6, 2020
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Nov 5, 2020
Nov 5, 2020 at 10:24 PM UTC
Land in Sepia
: ::: ::::: :::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: :::::::::: ::::: ::: : Overfilled dams released khaki-brown rainwaters, while slate gray stormy winds brought down houses and lamp posts, helpless trees were uprooted, branches, sliced off their trunks greens became hues of dark olive-brown. red roofs floated, fire came in their midst rain wasn't crystal clear as it used to be death's color became faded elephant gray lives were snatched as hands held tight, emotions died in those brown flood waters 2020 painted my country's canvas with the gloomiest shades of sepia still, my people rise from inundation, gray lava and tremors, while they breathe, they live on, as before. ::::::: ::::: ::: : Sally Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan November 6, 2020
(January 2020 started with Covid 19, Taal Volcano eruption, earthquakes, a series of typhoons, etc. etc.)
#supertyphoonrollygoni#2020#philippines#landinsepia
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F/Filipino
Nov 5, 2020
Nov 5, 2020 at 10:24 PM UTC
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