Family
It’s…..
Like a group of words
In mythical poem
When it’s hummed
It becomes a song
Or it’s…
Like spring flowers
In a verdant field
Through the rhythm
Of their colors
You can savor them
From the wind
Or it’s….
Like a flock of birds
On a cloudy afternoon
Exploring over the rainbow
How its colors glow
But….
The portraits on the wall
In their gold-plated frames
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I am Perfect
I am perfect
And no one can do anything about it
Show me the difference between right and wrong
And I will forgive you for not loving me
My color
My gender
My Age
I am perfect
When you cannot see
When you cannot hear
When you cannot walk
When you cannot talk
I can’t be perfect if I can’t love you who you are
Your color
Your gender
Your age
Your belief in God
Who made you and me equally in His eyes
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The Seasons of Giving
“I Wanna Be A Billionaire, ”
And so I wish - Bruno Mars
Tell me about this Seasons of Giving
When you have nothing
Those numbers keep on rolling
And mine are lazy
Stubborn
In that cage of Lottery
Friends and relatives are praying,
They too wish they’re millionaires
But what is Seasons of Giving means
If all are rich and got everything
A joke once told me
“Luck comes when I’ll be old and gray
For all started young
In line
Praying to God”
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Smile
Just smile at me and that's enough
To reach my world's top….most
Cause the way do
It endears me so much
Let it be unfolded
You swear it to me
Never to someone
Your smile is just for me
Gusty smile bewitching
Roaming within your eyes
Amidst
Calls and fills my lift-ups
Extol and rejoicing
I got you smile
Painter, Oh! I wish I could be
And I would paint that smile for me
Yet, it isn't my integrity
But being a poet is all of me
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Devotions of Time
Wealth is a dream of luxury
To conjure mind life living well
In depth of arrogance
– Pride
– Plethora
– Paucity
It makes sense
To the door of opportunity
With eight hours to spend
Measured by possibilities
– Goals
– Plans
– Raise
Work is a dream of reality
Masked by our endurance
Blinded by moments of truth
We are the slaves of time
– Lurking
– Looking
– Hoping
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Ex-lovers Met In FB: The Spy
Shadows on the horizon
Hovering from the past
Like TV screen
The Spy is watching them
In solemn love affair
Allied by Face Book
Marriage changed
To “complicated” profile
Defaced with other name
Amongst friends of friends
Through chats and emails
They played well their game
The spy rose road to reality
Upon the call of curiosity
Ammunition of true love
He aimed to win her back
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The Melodic Rain on My Roof
Believe it or not, I hate music
But when rain pours on my roof
And runs through the trough
I hear strings of a cello
Then to a child I become
When rain runs into the stream
And the river sends it back to the sea
Then to the ocean to silent sky
I wonder if life unlike rain
It comes back once again
If science can make me greater
I will then seek the path to past
To reclaim those that I never had
But I must speak to my own creator
Not to my father, not to my mother
For I am…..I am my MUSIC
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One Rainy Day
I have not forgotten
The land that raised me upon its rich soil
By a father's hands who mourned and toiled
Fifty years but gone
The enchants of the river sent to sea
To the arrival of sailboats on the dock
To a weary road walked on by barefoot
Stern as not to bleed
I rose with him like an early bird
With garland of rubber bands
That hangs around my neck
Dried mote was still in place
Mucus yo-yoing from nose
Oh! I still see that child of me
On that corner street
Like native Hawaiian
Half naked
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Ex-lovers Met In FB
Their love was once sworn
In churches and on trees
Their names were written
Yet quickly forgotten
Earlier in life, she left
To California to be exact
Arrive in SF
At no place to start
Thereafter two decades
Of mailmen just passing by
She married first
While he waits her prize
Now FB reign its purpose
Connecting those who were lost
Friends of friends come enforce
They found each other at no cost
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Faith Is Our Fate
Faith molds our fate
A path upon which to reach
Our destiny
Where every step we make
We passed our past
To look back what fractured us
And repair it along the way
Faith is a ladder to our success
Between rails of trials and errors
Choices and decisions
But to commit them wrong
We hold on to our faith
Believing Him up there
Extending His hands
For us not to fall
It is a root to our growth
That supplement our minds
Not to succumb from failures
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