Whether is blue skies or rainy days
there no place like home.
Working and playing
your home is where you belong.
Whether it’s going away to college
or going away to travel,
there is still no place like home.

-Jai-jai Vergara Estallo Maniri

                                                                             Yak #1: Now I know how Atlas felt.

                                                                             Yak #2: Chin up, friend. I’m here to share your burden.

-Lesley Wright

Colors from God’s Palette

There is no dissonance in the colors of nature.
In the obra maestra of the Great Painter,
the hues combine, well, naturally,
to create a scenery that never goes out of style.

-Carmeli Chaves

Mater Dolorosa. 
The Mother of Christ sorrowing for her son. 
Community members carry her carroza during the solemn
Santo Entierro procession rites on Good Friday.

The face of a mother weeping for her beloved son
who is laid to rest, reminds me of the sacrifices our mothers
have to endure to raise us to be what we are today. 

-Luchie flores

The ghouls and the goblins
When the leaves turn gold
The cold bitter winter
Just around the bend
let us bask into life
The changing seasons
The celebration.

-Therese Pearson-Neri

I must lead
and the others
must follow my directions
if we are going
to get this show
on the road.

-John Rock

Sun sea sand summer!
Cool water by the ankles
Salty breeze.

-Midnight Nike Panusart

                                                                            An army of faces… a multitude of personalities …
                                                                            myriad of thoughts… crowds coming together…
                                                                           do they care about what other people think
                                                                           or even say or even react to?
                                                                           Sometimes yes but more often no.
                                                                           
                                                                           We are one as a people… as a culture…
                                                                           yet we are apart… engrossed in our own worlds.

                                                                           We laugh, we sing, we cry and move together,

                                                                           yet we are worlds apart…
                                                                           because each one of us is unique, different…
                                                                           we trod diverse roads…

                                                                          -Luchie Flores

Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion

It certainly the most elaborate
and lavish in fine blue,
the detailing and artisan works more refined than elsewhere

where Cheong devoted his most attention 

due to his love for his 7th wife cum concubine.

-Corette Buri

The Pied Piper came to market today
Played his magical pipe to the morning crowd
They couldn’t resist his hypnotic music
And they followed him to the other side.
In fact you can still see them through the wall…

-Happy Ballesteros-Raagas

All alone 
I stand,

wishing for someone to come on board.

After everything that’s happened to me,

the thing most painful is loneliness.

Here I am, 
alone.

-Jai-jai Vergara Estallo Maniri

What happens if there’s no more mountain or rock to climb?
What happens if all things are made of glass?
Can men evolve into becoming spiders?
But spiders have four pairs of legs. Are you ready?

-Oliver Patino

My face is your face,
I reflect to you what you are seeking –
I have been here forever
and will remain here till time immemorial.
I am she,
the one who weaves the threads of life
into rainbow colours
and then spills then all over the path
so you can pick
and choose your direction.

-Sally Moore