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"noli" poems

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Noli Me PraehendoSprawl of the nazarene toothslayer, / Nucleotide bombast explosion; / ***** of the eftsoon soothsayer,

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UntitledThe only thing that ties me to this quilt-patched land, is memories of a flag: red, white, yellow, and blue. / Red is the blood used to paint our doorways—protection from ghostly wolves that sought our firstfruits. It is fight, even if our weapons are terribly flimsy. Bamboo tinted spears, mashed with berry paint and maskara on our brows is our arsenal. We fight in, and with the shadows. Light chases them down. Memories of GomBurZa, Noli Me, Balintawak, Tirad Pass and even EDSA remind me of how the wounds are slowly closing. Red is the color of our scars. / White is the gifts we received from our conquerors. The plow and the print: an awakening of consciousness new. White is the color of skin that polished us. White is also the gift of void, bleakness and forgetfulness. In exchange for the new, we shafted the old: our language, our anitos. A gift of disconnect: resolute Babel collapsing, burying us in tongues filled with sorcerous lisps. We curl in vain our own lips to fit their shapes. We speak gibberish now. The ghosts scoff at us in an even newer language of their own invention.

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Do Not Touch Me.Noli Me Tangere / Do not touch me / I am the deer that eludes the hunt.

@jacquelyn-lowe20

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Noli Me Tangere ( touch me not )I feel the space that I can't touch / You are invisibly everywhere / I see the way that you think

@South-by-Southwest4

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A Letter to the EditorThere are countless other waiting to take your place. / You tried to follow the highway out, but / the headlights blinded off your necklace spelling

@emily-overheim9

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Noli Timere“Do not be afraid”, / The poet said. / “Come, follow me,

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don’t worryno te preocupes / ne t’inquiete pas / ne volnuysya

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