A home is a home.
Standing still,
no matter what.

-Oliver Patino

Come in,
come on this place
will always have
a smiling face for you.
Anytime,
any day come by
and say hey.
This is your home
this is where you belong.
 
-Jaijai Vergara Estallo Maniri

If innocence
could be pictured,
this is as close
as you get! 

 
-Leif Softing

Wat,
clear skies
in Bangkok?

-Jenni Flotmann

 

As the sun sets over the Minaret,
a call to prayer is heard …
The faithful flocks to worship and be blessed …
HE hears our hearts and asks us to be patient …

-Andrew Tan

I live a life
in technicolour.
In what colour
do you live?

-Lesley Wright

Where Are You Going?
 
Are you navigating strange cold seas or sailing to sun-baked islands?

Where will life take you?
Are you charting your own destiny or just drifting by?

Whose acquaintance will you make?
Kings, paupers, lovers, friends
Beings you meet by design or by chance?

How are you getting there?
Aboard giant ships or paddle boats
Paid your way or stowaway?

What do you sail for?
Riches, adventure, happiness, fame
Does destination define destiny?

When shall our ships pass these waters again? Soon?  Maybe never.
May your voyage have no boundaries.
 
-Carmeli Chaves

Someday
my feet will carry me
to that paradise
where Neptune 
moistens heaven’s lips.

-Russell Shelley

My Prayer
My Certitude 

flares blazingly through my eyes.
Wield my divinity for the greater good.

 
-Leorey Saligan

Oblivious to what is out there
The elements 
maybe be harsh and cold
Do anyone 
really look twice and think
What this picture meant?
but looking deep in the ground
Is where life starts and ends.
 
-Therese Pearson-Neri

My Grandma Jessie Bird used to say,

"I used to feel bad
because I didn't have a new pair of shoes.
Then I saw a man with no feet."

-Amber Phalen

A few beliefs expresses that after death
you go to heaven or the opposite,
others say that there is another life
where you earn your place 

among the people forever;
some say nothing will happen to you.

I believe that at dusk,
people who have perished
become a part of nature.
An animal or a plant,
water or fire,
or become one of the stars.

-Alyssandra Maniri

My daily toil so burdened,
Only sinew and strength do I possess
Neither degree nor diploma to ease my strife
But ah! Just a puff of my Camels
Blows my woes away to the wind
My yoke gets lighter with every drag of nicotine...

-Jennifer Melendez-Penaflor

Get in the long tail
It won’t be along tale.
The khlong takes you to
Where wonder never fails.
 
Look left and right
That’s a wat right?
With saffron roofs as if
Floating on water light.
 
There goes express boat
Full of merit makers on board
To disembark at the steps
Taking down offering loads.
 
Let the wind blow
Rest on one side of your elbow
And ignore the engine noise as
You get ready for what’s further down the flow!

-Midnight Nike Panusart