Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Uniting Souls in a Dream

What is in a dream that affirms life mystery? Dreams speak what plays in the subconscious. This is true but it is not necessarily always the case. It is in our dreams that a greater force that is above the universe and humanity speaks to us. It is where souls that are interconnected to our lives manifest. Because of the beautiful mystery that lies in a dream, it has been a favourite subject of many wall paintings.

Many souls that are intertwined get together in a dream. It is a venue where God reveals to you whose souls your souls are with, presently. It is not just people who are close to you physically who are touching your life. Many from afar whom you do not see at all do. This is how the divine force works because all of us in one way or another are connected. And it is in our dreams that we reunite altogether just as how artworks for sale coming from different parts of the globe are reunited by one online gallery. We know from our dreams who are those touching our lives at present and whose lives we have great impact, too. Some see their soul mates in their dreams while many times the ones we see are not permanent to be with us, actually. As mentioned, they are the ones at present our soul is connecting to. Just like in the physical world, people come and go. And so the souls invading our dreams, they leave when they are done touching your lives.

But how exciting to see a person in your dreams recurring! You might want to make-believe that this person could finally be, perhaps, your soulmate. After such a long wait, he is now revealing himself to you. And you find it cool. And yet you may not still know or have not seen each other yet. And you just get excited of what comes next. Strange but this is how our mind works after recalling a dream that seems so vivid. And just like abstract wall painting, dreams of whether coming from the subconscious or from a divine revelation, are subjects to interpretation. And most of the time, the imaginative and creative as can just create a fictional story out of it not and not us how we understood our dream but as how we want to make things happen in accordance with our preference and belief.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

As Madonna says, Life is a Mystery

Mystery! Too deep to talk about yet you know something mystical is going on. You are very aware that stories are written out of you and so are songs. . And yes, you are aware that some of the films are being made alive in you by some people. Yet you can tell that there are films or a movie script that is written by someone else that is happening to you for real without orchestration of events. It is not an Asian art that an artist can just create.

You ask if it is possible that someone’s writing just happen to you for real. Orchestration of movies on you is not far from possibility most especially if they see all your moves and tamper everything they can tamper, not to mention of making the crowd limited by eliminating anyone that is not part of them. This is done by making sure that that a person will do something bad on you which will make you push him or her away out of your life. Despite your relationship with him is like the Best of Asian art, these people can make easily turn this into a cheap craft. Everyone else is being used against you so you’d fall to an entrapment of a group or some individuals who can easily manipulate situations and orchestrate events based from their script. But then the question is how about for some movies that you can tell from your gut feeling that whatever the person writes or whatever the story tells happen to you without someone behind it. Will this mean that in your past life you belong to the group of people where the stories are coming from? Or you and the writer have some soul connection? Life’s mystery cannot be fathomed if it is divine. Yet, if it is orchestrated, it can screw up in a snap.

We have been searching of where we came from in our past life or whose souls are we connected to at the present and as the heavens reveal the mystery to you, you now have a grasp that somehow, the place where the stories are coming from had something to do with your past life and the souls from their origin who can be in the form of someone else’s soul or some people souls at the present are now connecting with you again. Trust then that the divine force will work wonders in your life. When others do not believe in mystery, you know then that in you it is so alive. You are a live image that makes a landscape painting brilliant.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Our Beautiful Life

Life—the most beautiful thing that Earth can imagine. You dance to the flow. You sway to the rhythm. And you rock to the beat. Is there anything happier when you are surrounded with music? It is like as long as there is, as long as there is art—wall paintings, poetry, films and other more, then there is no reason to get annoyed with life.

Thanks be to God that to each is given a talent. More than it becomes a source of the artist’s source of big bucks, arts have been the source of hope for the depressed. Arts have been the consolation of the desperate. Arts have made living one heaven to live. It is but right that artworks for sale and patronizing dancing, singing, literary pieces, films to be a bit pricey. What are being used by the individuals to make people alive are God- given talents given that God stated his pure intention to every person. And that is to prosper him or her. There is no reason to sulk in to poverty when God wants abundance for everyone. And with this want, accompanied is the tool or the means as to live to His preference. Hard work may be a human key to prosper but beyond that should be God’s gate to abundance. Use what He gave us with passion and happiness. And no matter what happens we will realize that life is the most beautiful thing that Earth can imagine. Even the details of matter to the smallest of particles are by-products of life. This why despite some odds we still feel good the following days because there are too many reason to keep us up and not just because we are given life but because there are just abundance of reasons to be happy in life.

Of all people to be trapped in miseries are the ones talented. Most of the time, miseries are caused by depression. This happens to real artists- artists that are meant to be artists. We bet it is not easy to give hope to people. It is not easy to entertain them. And it is not easy to convince humanity that despite life’s odds, life is just simply one’s heaven of happiness and which the key for survival is the zest to life—the wants, the must-haves, the swagger to fight when needed, and the determination to stand up to your belief—which all boil down to faith. We speak here of belief to oneself despite humility which is founded from God’s statement that He wants to prosper us. All He wanted since time immemorial is the best for us. And from there alone, there is such an affirmation that life is the most beautiful thing on Earth. It is. In fact, it is beyond any artwork for sale crafted in gold and precious gems can capture.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

STRINGS



The prowess of the mind

Two souls connecting lives

The hearts have gone blind

Two bodies becoming wild

Think of how it started

From distance, our eyes met

Not for real yet it felt yes

In silence, we spoke

In a language we didn't hear

By raindrops we listened

In the light of moon, we smiled

With the breeze of air, we touched

Through the music, chills died

Heated by fire, ignited by love

The waters of the sea rejoiced

The tides were in sync,

What a sight to behold

Such silence in darkness

A total bliss within

The sands of time moved slow

Yet the hearts beat fast,

Our love had gone mad

Now, two souls are one

Then, we strings attach!

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

An Ordinary Thought


Wide awake we make out
While asleep, you touched me
My mind floats with none to think
to just feel you over me.
Why are your eyes like that?
Why do they look through my soul?
Why do they speak of heavens?
And why they say I am yours?
The lips that spoke of love
The same arch that made me smile
The ones that you used to kiss me
are the ones to close my eyes.
You fill my mind with longing
My heart with craving
And never questioning—
-my ordinary thought!

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Monday, September 19, 2011

Inspiration

The sight of you
brings luster back to a
tangled, dull hair.

Lips arched to smile
with thoughts of you near.

The thrill of romance
opens sad tired eyes.
and a life with you
makes it worth another try.

Call me. Love me.
Make me believe love works
for a hopeless me,
--saddened by memories
--damaged by hurts,
--rescued by pain
hoping it’s you to heal
what’s not sane.

Let’s talk no sense.
drive me all night long.
kiss me all over.

Then go. Leave...
without looking back
never coming back
because you are just
an illusion,
-- a fragment of my past;
an inspiration
--to haunt me sad
for the rest of my life!

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Gloom in Bliss

Life speaks of bliss.

Gloom dropped to feet.

Sweet hellos to blink

blank stare, misty- eyed;

dark goodbyes in pink

Us bid a chance

to not wreck a lie.

Yet eyes see. Hearts feel

lines of no rhyme,

a dance with no beat,

a few words to cheat,

music so mine,

your painting of defeat.

Hooray, we said to hold on.

Hooray, we’ll say to move on.

Life speaks of bliss.

Gloom dropped to feet.


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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Us- a history


Call me yours
We start over again
Let your whisper
Be a breeze to my hair.

Sing me love songs
I reply you with prose
You and I, we venture
a world fiery and lost.

Promise me a new day,
We do this all the way
Bring me back memories
Remind me our stories.

Oh dear, I forgot
Not a thing I remember
Yet the feeling lingers
To seem last forever.

Hold me so tightly
Kiss me tenderly
I know you and I
In bed-- a history.

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Letting Go by Aps

Had my self up in the air
Floating yet no one cares
Took the easy way out
of letting go yet screaming no.

Pushed my self in the open
Damaged 'till the end
yet the long for thousands kisses
the best of warm embraces
Lingers still. But, I'm okay.

Life is not all chocolates
Many are bitter-sweets
Sweet loving someone
whom you know doesn't exist.

Stop and don't go
Let imagination roll
Allow me close my eyes
And feel your lovely soul.

Let's make love through the night
Feel me so alright
It is my easy way out
of letting go yet screaming no!

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Just the Same Old Litany

What is wrong with the flowers? study art
how can I not compose
how can I not paint
Its colors, neither hue?

What is with the sky?
It is not even blue
unreal, its pallor is a lie
below, the grass left unawed.

Where is the time that flies beyond
a calendar, red-marked
when smiling eyes capture the sun
and make sad faces lit up?

But why none of these I felt is true
none of your ways hit anew
neither words can twist the fact
nor actions belie what's true.

Show me the crystals to cast shine
dull and lusterless when found
like a stone to bring excruciating pain
when love is all beyond repair!

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Monday, January 24, 2011

A Day with Dad

God, can i call you Dad?
Too funny to ask late when you’ve been for years.
When I cry, you dry my tears. When I giggle, you chuckle.
When I sing, I know what you are thinking.

But you are careful for me to know.
Dad, there are lots of things I want to say.
Things that you know I will cry about.
But every time I want to start

You send some jazz for me to listen to,
Give me thoughts to write about,
films that I long to see, pasta that I crave for,
an apple juice to quench my thirst.

And then again I want to start with you.
But you give me books to ponder on,
a wading pool to hear children laugh,
and watch adults float looking at the sky,

Same situation. You put them in water, instead.
I understand why you evade my way.
If you talk to me. You need to talk to all. You have never been unfair.
This time, you send me to Shang for groceries.

But you have never turned lead into gold.
C902 is fast enough to get your msg:
Not only Gold can feed the hungry.
Back home, you send me chores to keep the pad a ” wow”.

At the hallway, you send people to swarm around the little boy.
I insist.Let’s talk.
With lights out and everything is peaceful, I fall asleep.
You wake me up and ask: ” What is it again that you want us to talk about?”.

Oh no Dad, I just want to thank you for the day. Can I go back to sleep now?
“Okay, you may. Let me just bless you again for another day."

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Related songs---


"...and now let the weak say I am strong; let the poor say I am rich..."

"...when you see only one set of foot prints, it was then that I carry you."

Related film



Just a penny for your thoughts


It is never a fantasy to think of God as your back up who will stand not just with you but for you when other people, the surrounding environment, and situations aim to put you down.
Most especially if everything appears to look fine in the eyes of the people but some foul play of silent harassment is being orchestrated which only the target knows and feels, then expect God to bring divine justice in your life and attack your opponents with your hands remaining clean. Surely, these could be shocking to others who think that it was you who wronged. As these could be inevitable like a destined battle in one's life which could be anything, God tried his very best effort for his hurting child to feel less of the burden he is carrying and less of the pain he is feeling by showering the person with his blessing and love.


Give thanks to him who is making me proud and arrogant over my enemies. And give thanks to him who is making me so gentle over people who are

sincerely loving me and whose minds are not corrupted by some people who act in behalf of others who are after revenge. God is the real FATHER whose aim is not to punish, whose aim is not corrupt minds, whose aim is not to discipline or give lesson just like what others thought. He is a FATHER who only wants to love HIS children who loves Him, no matter what!

Take it from me, some people got envious and threatened because in my poverty, they thought that I was rich and in my weakness, they saw me very strong! Give thanks to God when all I have to do is to close my eyes and talk to him and before I knew it, he had already stricken my detractors. Most of the time, he doesn't listen to my words because just like anyone, I can show him a list of the things I want to have-- a list that is no match to Santa's. What my heavenly FATHER usually does is HE searches my heart and in just a wink of an eye gives whatever it asks-- be it material things or destruction of my enemies. No worries to anything like that! When these bitter people connive against me during the time that my heart was beating good for them, that was the very same time that my feet were off the ground and my proud head could not even look down. Yes, that was the time when the FATHER carried me.

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Shoes

Of elegance in black
A few inches keep me tall
White-stitched, silver-buckled
Walk away. Look no more.


Emeralds and jade, opal and sapphire
Sewn together, nothing else’s fine.
Sole rested in the golden flats
Not a sight. Not in my pad.


The casual white, the comfy one
shining still, stylish pumps
Rubber, yes. Yet, style defined
Never will I assume you’re mine.


Shoes…shoes, you never last.
You get me hooked in just a glance.
You wear out fast as time passed.
You are so like him. Forever lost

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Movies-- another fascination
Under Armour Spectre Cushion Running Shoe Womens

The relation of this movie,In her Shoes, is pretty obvious to my poem. Shoes, as one if not the top fascination of women, have always been used as metaphor to describe relationship and to convey feelings.
Clear Open-Toe High Heel Shoes
Even in a romantic fantasy drama, a search for a lost love is represented by woman's shoes. Cinderella was united to her prince charming by her lost shoe. In reality, somehow, the cliche of " They live happily ever after:", remains a mystery.
The girls of Sex and the City are not as hot without their reputation of glamour. Their fashion is non-sense in the absence of their collection of shoes and their continuous search for love.

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Make- Believe

I saw a writing on the wall,
Painted red and black
Staining my inner soul
Wondrin' what lies ahead.


Your countenance wraps me still ,
So vivid in my imagination
My eyes locked in a slumber
Lest, you absence bring me tears .


I saw a writing on the wall,
And I feel the heat inside
Like a cerebro in my mind
Connecting brainwaves with fire .


Could there be any more wishes!
Let the paint taint my being
A make- believe of your love
Based on the writing in the wall!


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Another fascination--- movies
P.S I Love You is one of my favorite movies that I deem fit my poem best------ a make- believe of love figure that is already nowhere.

n the romantic film, Ghost, a make-believe of love that is already non-existent is untiringly chased through signs and mere memories.

Just a penny for your thought:

Two of the romantic flicks which movie posters are posted on the side are the undying story of Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, Ghost and a recently shown feel- good yet heartwarming movie, P.S. I love You. The funny part is both lead actors featured are ghosts. Does this mean that women who are in love usually chase ghost when ghost is defined as imaginary love? To some it could be a fantasy but to the rest a make-believe is the ultimate reality--- a reality that in a world of betrayal, there is always hope and a longing for love.

AUTHOR"S ONE OF FAVE SONGS

A make-believe love is your no ordinary love. It is like a diamond who is said to be a girls' best friend which most of the time the presence of its luster is merely an illusion.





A make-believe love is your no ordinary love. It is like a diamond who is said to be a girls' best friend which most of the time the presence of its luster is merely an illusion.

Diamonds Are Forever

The sight of diamonds for a woman is a temptation. She can walk outside so proud and confident once she wears at least one. It is like that little cut which luster is catching the attention of any eye that comes across it is giving her best friend so much power. What gives diamond more luster is the cost associated to it, even the star that I am talking about is as tiny as grain of salt.

Good that I came across a site that markets diamond as I surf the net and went to health and beauty section to just please my eyes. Surely, a white or yellow gold ring in 18k setting embedded with .50 carat diamonds is an eye candy. All the more I find it enticing to know that most of the rings in display are half the original cost. Such a nice deal if only I could only secure one for myself. But I already feel contented just by looking at them along with more valuable ones like 1.5 carat diamond ring set in platinum. Black diamond of 1.5 carat looks so elegant, too!

Jewelry, whether of gold or platinum setting makes both man and woman get excited with just a thought of having them. Why not, no one can deny the fact the impression of royalty once you wear them, not to mention that all jewelry collectors eye for them as good and wise investment. In fact, watches of high value will just look fashionable and are considered as accessories without real gold or platinum setting and some real diamonds embedded to them.

I have never been a diamond or jewelry collector. I would rather get myself of things which I thought as valuable until I realize that none is more valuable than high- cost jewelry except for real big cash in the bank which can still be devalued over time. And yes, part of my realization is the logic why adults in their 40’s are so much into collecting these little pieces. Aside from thinking of investment as mature ones, what they have simply talks about of what they can afford.

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A Heart At Peace

Had not much say enough
to a world groomed to love
Of hatred is its disguise
Of chill to shield what’s warm.


Had life prey on its kill
When a goner revived to live
Not just to summon the dead
But to judge those who live.


A structure down the heavens
A refuge to souls found
Where spirits can run wild
to lead the lost to the Light.


Like a nation’s hope to a son
Its fate rests in a new man
Is a grain of sand I stand
Where I rest my case to the One.


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Poem's related flicks ---

Evita shows how faith in one's call of destiny moved mountains. And as this could be a typical story of " rags to riches", Evita struggled for what she wanted by maintaining who she was and believing in what she could do.
In Schindler's List, a man stood by his faith to do good amid the wickedness of the people, even that would entail risking his good and well-respected life during the time where the taste of genocide seemed like your ordinary meal.
Mozart: Piano Concertos, KV 459 & 466 [Hybrid SACD]
Just a penny for your thought:

Once in our lives, we feel that there is something that we want which is different from a dream. It is a not a typical childhood dream of wanting to be a doctor based from the pressure of what the world wants for you and from where every move is a strategy to hit a goal.

I am referring to an unexplainable feeling of wanting to do something despite the odds that you might encounter along the way. This could be opposing to your will. This could not even fit who you are. Yet every step leads to a destination only God knows.

Oskar Schindler thought of being a great businessman in his time. He thought of money, power, security, and good life. He worked for everything that he had. It was a dream. It was a goal. Yet he never thought that his pursuit would lead to passion of saving people that would endanger everything he worked for. It just happened. it was God's call. The only choice is to put his faith on his fate.

Did Evita Peron think of rising to power? All she wanted was to feed her simple whims of vanity and just to get by. She just wanted herself to stay pretty and forget the childhood that she did not like. She is a typical girl, I should say. She rose to power. She did not use the typical politics of wearing rags amid the people who could only afford a piece or two of the cheapest shirt, yet she was loved by the poor and brought people together. She had faith in herself. She had faith on what she could do even she knew others could do better. Despite accusations of malicious intent, God loved her. God put His faith on her.

AUTHOR'S ONE OF FAVE SONGS---




I'll stand by you
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Love Song

Listen to the love song
played in my heart.
Do you experience voyage
in the vastness of ocean?

I remember that time
When your smile shook me still
Dreaming was never a dream
‘till you came here.

Letters were stuck when
you walked my way
In the sight of your stature
My world collaborates

Is the song still muted?
Is the melody remained subdued?
Baby, that is okay,
Deafness is my pedestal!


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AUTHOR'S ONE OF FAVE SONGS ----- No Ordinary Love/ SADE



Just a penny for your thought:

Music, poetry, and movies are silent expressions of an outcry- an outcry of a deep feeling ignored. This passionate rebellion is expressed in my poem where I used music as a metaphor matched with a romantic movie that lingers to last.
Have you, for once, experienced the intensity of loving when despite of a strong emotion being ignored and crushed down, you just simply say, " Baby, that is okay. Deafness is my pedestal!"?
Poem's related flick--- My Best Friend's Wedding

I see a relation of this movie, My Best Friend's Wedding, to my poem, Love Song, Both are about strong emotions that are left unheard despite the scream that comes from the heart.

Loving someone who has ignored a strong emotion that is being invested is like a ghost who is trying to make his presence felt. My poem, Love Song, shares the same love along with its accompanying pain.


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