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AE Jun 2024
wide open
taking steps toward new seas
twirling this breeze between my fingers
horizons of possibility
what to wish for?
but to float
when all else sinks
Louise Jun 2024
My most beloved,
I've always known, it makes perfect sense.
Why they all want to take you,
away from my arms and from the lull of rest.
Why they all want a piece of you,
it's because you are simply, utterly the best.
My dearest,
it's all because you are heaven-sent.
Because of you, I am brave and I can win.
Your waves are weaved by God himself.
Because of you, I can surf, sink and swim.
But my love,
for you, there is no war I wouldn't fight.
There is no battle that I wouldn't triumph.
No forefronts I wouldn't lead.
No enemy I wouldn't bury dead.
My most beloved sea, my dearest,
๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ๐˜ข
For your laughters, waves and sunset,
๐˜-๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜บ๐˜ข๐˜จ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ฏ.
Written from the POV of humanized San Juan, La Union, addressed to the West Philippine Sea โค๏ธ

Ilocano translations:
1.) Matayak a makilablaban para kenka
Mamamatay akong ipinaglalaban ka
(I would die fighting for you)

2.) I-alay ko biyag ko inggana pannakalpasan.
Ibibigay ko ang buhay ko hanggang katapusan
(I will give my life until the end)
Thomas Harvey May 2024
May
I open my eyes but am blind to the sea
My ears are filled with myths
For no creature could lurk in the abyss
Perhaps I should have paid the fee

The air is denser than it was yesterday
The sun is refusing to shine
And the lonely sea continues to whine
Six more nights till I see May

I try to sleep at day
To be prepared during nightfall
Thatโ€™s when I hear him call
Five more nights till I see may

Iโ€™m getting closer I think
Based on my supply of food
Itโ€™s not lot looking to good
One more night, I say on the brink

He waited for me to reach the bay
Where he rose larger than the sun
There I knew I was done
Here I almost made it to May
Louise Apr 2024
A pearl waits indeed,
albeit of exceptional beauty...
No matter how rare or how valuable,
a pearl waits indeed.
A pearl waits indeed,
for the bravest of divers...
No matter how long or how far,
to swim deep for her historical harvest.
A pearl waits indeed,
albeit of celebrated rarity...
No matter how treacherous the ocean,
a pearl stays still and sits pretty.
A pearl waits indeed,
in the embrace of the sea...
No matter how tumultuous the waves get,
a pearl waits indeed...
A pearl waits...
to be worn as a necklace
or earrings by a poet.
A poet who also refers to herself as a pearl.
A poet so foolishly comparing herself.
But then again, she's not so wrong.
Asking questions to the sky before bed.
Will you pick me up and take me away
from this seabed of moss and loss?
Will you harvest me from the vast ocean
and its mass of loneliness?
A pearl waits...
to be held, touch and kissed by the fingers
of a brave diver, of a worthy surfer...
Or simply by a simple island boy,
whose heart is that of a lion's
and whose hands are able...
Your Philippine pearl,
Louise...
atr Apr 2024
Lost and free our love should be
Strength in 'we' are hopes and dreams
And if winds blew or when they do
On gusts, Iโ€™m ****** to write

A line or two in thought of you

And if it were that words fall short
Let them sail toward soulless ports
For ships are that, deprived of crew
And still I write

A line or two in thought of you

Lost adrift in search of land
You are my earth, you are my sand
And if we sink as boats will do
Then first Iโ€™ll write

A line or two in thought of you

If swept away, if drowned or swallowed
Itโ€™s here I say press down your sorrows
And when they swell as sorrows do
Iโ€™ve written words but far too few

A line or two, in thought of you:

Leap with me into the sea
Set sail, set sail...
Simran Guwalani Apr 2024
With each other, I guess
they had started to reason,
and that is how the sky and the sea
Eventually met at the horizon.
Copyright Simran Guwalani
uv Mar 2024
Looking back at another year,
Being thankful for things far and near.
The horizon has never been this bright,
The sea of love brimming with glorious light.

Looking back at another year,
Grateful for things small and dear.
Possibilities like soft molding sand,
Hope of adventures crossing sea and land.
I S A A C Mar 2024
love to see your smile but only when itโ€™s coated by my love
hate to see you violent but my love will calm the rough
jokes that make you giggle until you forgot how grave it was
to be a passing ship in a sea of storms
this was happenstance, yet we cannot ignore
the embers that burn, the tables we turn
the shells we found on our own
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