"ruba" poems
Nagpabilin nga mamingaw an mga kagab-ihon
Madampog an langit ngan waray bisan usa nga bituon
Maalinsuog an hangin nga nadukot ha akon panit
Pero ano man nga tigda nala tumaghom han nawara ka na ha akon sapit?
Hain ka na? Pakiana nga baga’t ruba nga plaka
An imo ngaran an akon inuguman tikang hiton gab-i kutob ngadto’t aga
An akon pagkakaturog in pirme man gud masaklap
Kay baga ako hin nahigda ha salog nga waray balon nga taklap.
Aadi pa ha akon mga kamot inin mga panyo nga minad-an
Han mga luha nga nagpapas nala tungod han kagul-anan
Gin mimingaw na gad ako han imo matam-is nga tingog
Sige man iton akon guliat pero dire ka man nakakdungog.
Hain ka na? mamingaw na an aton mga sonata
Hain na? hain na an aton gin-uungara nga istorya?
Waray naman gud rumabong an aton natindog nga relasyon
Waray kadiligi hin maupay asya tigda napuo an pundasyon.
Yana an huring nala han hangin an akon nababatian
Waray na bisan guliat o kurahab man la nga nadudunggan
Waray na gihap wantas inin uran, waray na ada plano pag-huraw
Sugad han aton gugma, nagpapabilin nga mamingaw.
- Caryl
Aug 14, 2021
Aug 14, 2021 at 8:19 AM UTC
She saw the face of Judas in him.
The bearded kiss festered no truth
and the metallic breath
exhaled putrid faithfulness.
The trampled petals spoor no lusting stares,
redolent no more
even as the tongue creeps by the shoulders.
The razors have summoned from the stinking room!
A slit in the neck
could rhythmically go by the thrusts unnoticed
But the chorus of the beasts
as shrill as the gongs of hell
maiming vengeance yet
not in the loss of blood will you die.
Not in my hands.
His demonic pleasures went on as the voodoo doll
resurrected in the beat of my own gongs.
Keep stirring as this spindle rouses my anathema!
his chest hairs
pint of blood
vulture’s beak
stallion’s tails
bobcat’s eye
dead evergreen
Deborah’s tears.
Stir and stir and stir!
Murmur satan’s prayer
mana mana mana boo!
ruba ruba ruba hoo!
Count the sands of the transient hourglass
expiring ‘fore tic tac sound.
Now her man froze,
bulging eyes, blackened pulse!
‘tis freedom, Deborah!
Free.
Doomed.
© Glenn Sentes
03-06-13
Mar 6, 2013
Mar 6, 2013 at 6:59 PM UTC
Tomorrow when I wake up I'm finding my brother
and making him take me back down to the water.
That lake where we sailed and laughed with our father.
I will not desert him. I will not desert him.
No matter how I may wish for a coffin so clean,
or these trees to undress all their leaves onto me.
I put my face in the dirt and then finally I see
the sky that has been avoiding me.
I started this letter; I'm going to send it to Ruba;
It will be blessed by her eyes on the gulf coast of Florida.
With her feet in the sand and one hand on her swimsuit,
she will recite the prayer of my pen.
Saying, "Time take us forward, relief from this longing.
They can land that plane on my heart, I don't care.
Just give me November; the warmth of a whisper
in the freezing darkness of my room."
But no matter what I would do in attempt to replace
all these pills that I take trying to balance my brain;
I've seen the curious girl with that look on her face,
so surprised she stares out from her display case.
Jul 20, 2012
Jul 20, 2012 at 3:16 PM UTC
It was the day of the wedding of Mr and Mrs Epithalamium they looked quite the Heroic Couplet and full of Romanticism until the Englyn Prose-d the Questionku ‘ Do you take this woman’ … then in a wavering Iambic Pentameter voice the groom whispered ‘I do not know’ ….Mrs Epithalamium felt quite Dizain and tried to scratch out his Ruba’I, the Clerihew stepped forward to comfort her but tripped over some Concrete and felt like a right Cowboy. The brides father, the Russian Chastushka, grabbed the groom and with a Carpe Diem attitude threatened to Choka him.
The guests all gathered in an Enclosed Rhyme with the best man making quite a Dramatic Monologue, the brides mother had her Hybronnet knocked off her head and the chief bridesmaid had her Kimo torn in the affray. The young flower girls Haibun and Hamd both burst into tears as their Crown of Sonnets were totally destroyed.
The Rev. Pantoum pleaded for calm, then repeating his plea for the melee to stop started making a List of the damage, quick as a Ghazal and with great Imagism he protected the Crystalline glass from smashing into Ninette pieces. Meanwhile the poor bride was in a state of Nonet anxiously trying to get past the twins Munaajaat and Musaddas, her Idyll life had been turned upside down, today was the day she had hoped to change her Name to Triolet.
Alliteration watched while women wept, then stepped forward and with a Lyric in his voice asked people to calm down, he told everyone he had Naat come here to watch a display such as this and suggested they went for a hot Canzone to discuss the next move, Tanka and Tyburn readily agreed as they were very hungry and particularly as it was Free Verse it meant they could eat as much as they wanted. The nearly bride couldn’t give a Sijo if she never saw her ex again she was sick of being Kyrielle to and did not want anyone else’s Epyllion and with a final Than-Bauk stormed out of the club…
© 6/4/2013
Apr 6, 2013
Apr 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM UTC
Sebab hari tak beraut mentari
Sinar malam yang di curi teknologi
Senyum anak cucu tanpa gigi
Mari pukul tifa deng menari..
Biarpun tanah adat sudah jadi kali
hutan ruba kulit
laut tinggal ari-ari
mari pukul tifa deng manari
biarpun suku tinggal hitung jari
id,02/april/2014, tegalrejo, bantul
May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 5:29 PM UTC
Sebab hari tak beraut mentari
Sinar malam yang di curi teknologi
Senyum anak cucu tanpa gigi
Mari pukul tifa deng menari..
Biarpun tanah adat su jadi kali
hutan ruba kulit
laut tinggal ari-ari
mari pukul tifa deng manari....
biarpun suku tinggal hitung jari
di bunuh tamu: dari pulau mati
id,02/april/2014, tegalrejo, bantul
May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 4:48 PM UTC
nayakan an repairman, waray man problema
dire man daw liwanan, ngan nadara pa
pero pamati ko, ruba na gud ada
kay waray ka na man tatawag, waray ka na magpakita.
🥀
#siday
Jul 7, 2024
Jul 7, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC
Mary undressed
for her Friday bath.
The water was steaming
steam rose
to the off-white ceiling.
She dipped in a foot
withdrew it again.
Feckin' 'ot.
She turned on
the cold water tap.
It cooled down
the water.
She turned off the tap
and put in
a foot again.
That's better.
She climbed
in the bath
and sat down.
Water reached
her small taut *******
Luk at de sight
av dem.
Two love bites
stained one breast.
Magdalene's work.
She picked up
a pink sponge
and soaped it up.
Washed her
neck, arms,
******* and down
between thighs.
Nuns an' their
blather.
Buff an' blister
Thomas an' 'er
ideas for lent.
She wished the nun
would go to holy Rome.
She soaped
her *** standing up.
Magdalene
wud love dis.
She sponge down
with water washing
the soap off.
A love bite on her
right thigh high up.
Magdalene
lipped her
and kissed her.
That time
at Magdalene's
parents' house
while they
were out shopping.
Both naked
on the bed.
Nip as babes.
Mary stepped out
of the warm bath.
She grabbed
a white towel
began to dry herself.
Wish Magdalene
wus here nigh.
Ruba-dub-dub.
Once dried
she stood and gazed
at herself
in the mirror.
Jist loike Eve.
That time
at Magdalene's house
lying abed
with a thousand thoughts
going round
in her head.
Jun 23, 2017
Jun 23, 2017 at 2:23 PM UTC
Ruba a qualcuno la tua forsennata stanchezza
o gemma che trapassi il suono
col tuo respiro l'ombra che sta ferma
di fronte ad un porto di paura
quel trascendere il mito
come se fosse forzatamente azzurro
o chi senza abbandono
che non sanno che il pianto dei poeti
è solo canto.
Canto rubato al vecchio del portone
rubato al remo del rematore
alla ruota dell'ultimo carro
o pianto di ginestra
dove fioriva l'amatore immoto
dalle turbe angosciose di declino
io sono l'acqua che si genuflette
davanti alla montagna del tuo amore.
633
Hin-o ba in makakabaton hine nga akon pakiana
Nga kon diin inen katilingban napupuno hin pagruha-duha
Marisaw bisan ka kumain padayon an pangarawat
Kulang nala ako in mamangno hini dinhi nga ngarat.
Adton mag-aramyaw dire na naggigi-asihay
Bisan man magkasugat ha dalan in waray na buslungay
Adton magkakapamilya natutuyaw hin pasukod-sukod
Ginhihinay-hinay pag-ruba han ira madig-on nga katukod.
Adton mga tawo in nawawara an kamag-sarangkay
Pipira pira la iton nga politiko pero yinukot-yukot it nag-aaway
Na aalupan na hin grabe nga kahugaw iton hangin
Waray na an pagka-urusa, adton anay mag-upay yana in nag-lain.
Dire na ada kita nakakabati hadton guliat han gugma
Kay nalulumay na kita hadton ka-ipa han kwarta
Waray na adton anay maupay nga pagkasaragbot
Nagpabilin nala yana an kaawa ngan an makalilisang nga kahalot.
Adton iba in nasasagipo la han pag-pinadungog
Nadugang la lugod inen panahon hin pag-alinsuog
Dire na man gud mahimo na ha kada tagsa magpa-abat hin gugma
Kay bisan ngani iton karagta-tawa ngan mga ngirit plinastikay nala.
Ambot uunanhon ko la ine hin pagbaton
Pakiana nga makuri gud usahay intindihon
Nahingain na an mga tawo nga nagkaka-abuyon?
Dire ba kita puydi pumili nga dire salapi iton rason?
Unta sangkay, abrihan mo iton imo huna-huna
Ha mga pabati ngan pagpakaraot dire ka unta magpadara
Kay inen piniliay sagrado gud ngan baraan
Ayaw pag pasipara pagdum-it hadton imo ngaran.
Unta imo madunggan kon ano man iton yakan han imo dughan
Ngan adton boses han kamatuuran imo unta pamati-an
Ayaw pahulop hinin nagliliyong liyong nga konsumisyon
Intindiha nala kay amo ine an darahig han eleksyon.
Jun 23, 2025
Jun 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM UTC