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Do you guys have any poems na pwedeng "pang-Hallmark greeting card" and dating? Maybe stuff you wrote way back in highschool, or nung time na in-love na in-love ka? Post them here! 
hello,
The Void
There is a place, a place I call Void...
In my mind there is a place
A plain cavern, a bare space
Blue flame dancing on the center
with a dry ledge of alabaster
I solely enter that abode
And yet I'm not entierly alone
With me are my emotions
that for a day wrapped my bones
With me are my mask, my mix-up feelings
In the flame I feed them, and watch them seething
On the ledge I put my emotions, till I'm only me
I assume the Nothingness, until I am free
Only then will I look at you
Seeing you as you are
With a mind that has no grasping thoughts
In the Void, I'll observe from afar
Without mental comment of what you do
It's only in the Void that I see true
There, I'm not clouded by my deceitful feelings
There, without my mask, I see your hue
Your true self only then will I see
Only then will I know that you're not so above me
Until you move, Oh that graceful sway!
Until you smile and drank my soul away
Until you walked thatshouts your social standing
How long can I keep the Nothingness going?
Then you turn and held his hands
I saw two wings that flew as one
Then you hugged to my lament
The ledge gave in, the flame was rent
The Void shattered, the Nothingness collapsed
I lay there weeping, the fragments I clasp
The Void was good, tis my retreat
When for a day I feel defeat
But then you came to my dismay
How can I make the Nothingness stay?
The Void was strong before you came
Now its as dust, It aint the same...
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newbie here!
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Do you guys have any poems na pwedeng "pang-Hallmark greeting card" and dating? Maybe stuff you wrote way back in highschool, or nung time na in-love na in-love ka? Post them here!
Hi Jahar! I really like your poem, its style has shades of "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufock" by T.S. Eliot (one of my favorites), and a bit of Ginsberg's "Howl". Nice imagery and lyricism, I especially like the lines:
Until you move, Oh that graceful sway!
Until you smile and drink my soul away
Who are your favorite poets? (& writers in general?)
Toper 
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hello,
The Void
There is a place, a place I call Void...
In my mind there is a place
A plain cavern, a bare space
Blue flame dancing on the center
with a dry ledge of alabaster
I solely enter that abode
And yet I'm not entierly alone
With me are my emotions
that for a day wrapped my bones
With me are my mask, my mix-up feelings
In the flame I feed them, and watch them seething
On the ledge I put my emotions, till I'm only me
I assume the Nothingness, until I am free
Only then will I look at you
Seeing you as you are
With a mind that has no grasping thoughts
In the Void, I'll observe from afar
Without mental comment of what you do
It's only in the Void that I see true
There, I'm not clouded by my deceitful feelings
There, without my mask, I see your hue
Your true self only then will I see
Only then will I know that you're not so above me
Until you move, Oh that graceful sway!
Until you smile and drank my soul away
Until you walked thatshouts your social standing
How long can I keep the Nothingness going?
Then you turn and held his hands
I saw two wings that flew as one
Then you hugged to my lament
The ledge gave in, the flame was rent
The Void shattered, the Nothingness collapsed
I lay there weeping, the fragments I clasp
The Void was good, tis my retreat
When for a day I feel defeat
But then you came to my dismay
How can I make the Nothingness stay?
The Void was strong before you came
Now its as dust, It aint the same...
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newbie here!
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Do you guys have any poems na pwedeng "pang-Hallmark greeting card" and dating? Maybe stuff you wrote way back in highschool, or nung time na in-love na in-love ka? Post them here!
your poem is very touching...i like it very much..its wicked!keep up the good work....
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I still remember…
The day you came up to me and said “hi”
Our first conversation, our first good-bye
I still remember…
The day I saw you in a different light
Such a wondrous, beautiful, and angelic sight
I still remember…
The day I first held your hand
The day our eyes met, as we could feel something more
I still remember…
The day I held you in my arms
The day that I truly felt where I belonged
I still remember…
The day that both our lips met
As I embraced you close and felt the joy of being loved
I still remember…
The day you whispered words into my ear
You said that you loved me and that you were sincere
I still remember…
The day you first left when I couldn’t stand being alone
Not knowing exactly when you’d come home
I still remember…
The day I saw you with someone new
The pain was so great, but I still loved you
I still remember…
The day I had to try and let go
Of all of the memories through which my pain showed
Yet, I will never let go of the fact that I love you because…
I still remember.
A Thanks
'THANK YOU'
are just two words
Two simple words
useless without
each other.
Separated,
it would never
mean the same.
And people like you,
people who are
humble,
people who know
these words
by heart
deserve them.
If there's a more
meaningful word,
I'd have used it.
If there's a more
expressive term,
I'd have said it.
But since none
seems finer
and more appropriate
Since no word
can match
the meaning of
these two,
Then let me say it
once again,
Thank You!
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Do you guys have any poems na pwedeng "pang-Hallmark greeting card" and dating? Maybe stuff you wrote way back in highschool, or nung time na in-love na in-love ka? Post them here!
The Truth
I regret ever knowing
without even showing
my true feelings for you.
You are negligent, not intelligent
you do not have a clue.
For you, my heart does not burn.
A lot you have to learn.
Despise would be more concise
if a word for you I had to advertize.
You were wrong
I did not love you all along.
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Na-touch ba kayo? 
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And love is sometimes cruel
Yet not a grave
Dwell on the stars
Empty was never ours
Darkness is emptiness
The soul survives
I survived
It’s not too late
It will never be…
For hearts shine
Rare as the flower on falls
Rare as the autumn on November rains
Unravel
Unchain
Unparalleled
Unprecedented
Confessed tameness
You are free…
HOW CAN I
HOW CAN I KEEP YOU
IF SOMEBODY OWNS YOU
HOW CAN I GO TO YOUR WAY
IF SOMEONE IS BLOCKING
HOW CAN I HOLD YOU
IF SOMEONE IS HOLDING YOU
HOW CAN I BE SPECIAL FOR YOU
IF THERE IS SOMEBODY FOR YOU
HOW CAN I SAY GOOD-BYE TO YOU
IF I DON"T WANNA LEAVE YOU
HOW CAN I SAY I DON"T LOVE YOU ANYMORE
IF MY HEART KEEP SAYS I LOVE YOU
...PERHAPS FOR YOU IS NOTHING BUT, FOR ME
IS EVERYTHING
...I FORCE MY SELF TO FORGET YOU BUT, IT
DOESN"T FOLLOW CAUSE ...
THE MORE I TRY TO FORGET YOU
THE MORE MY HEART SAYS...
I LOVE YOU
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Do you guys have any poems na pwedeng "pang-Hallmark greeting card" and dating? Maybe stuff you wrote way back in highschool, or nung time na in-love na in-love ka? Post them here!
nice poem. i like it. keep up the good work..
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HOW CAN I
HOW CAN I KEEP YOU
IF SOMEBODY OWNS YOU
HOW CAN I GO TO YOUR WAY
IF SOMEONE IS BLOCKING
HOW CAN I HOLD YOU
IF SOMEONE IS HOLDING YOU
HOW CAN I BE SPECIAL FOR YOU
IF THERE IS SOMEBODY FOR YOU
HOW CAN I SAY GOOD-BYE TO YOU
IF I DON"T WANNA LEAVE YOU
HOW CAN I SAY I DON"T LOVE YOU ANYMORE
IF MY HEART KEEP SAYS I LOVE YOU
...PERHAPS FOR YOU IS NOTHING BUT, FOR ME
IS EVERYTHING
...I FORCE MY SELF TO FORGET YOU BUT, IT
DOESN"T FOLLOW CAUSE ...
THE MORE I TRY TO FORGET YOU
THE MORE MY HEART SAYS...
I LOVE YOU
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Do you guys have any poems na pwedeng "pang-Hallmark greeting card" and dating? Maybe stuff you wrote way back in highschool, or nung time na in-love na in-love ka? Post them here!
This one is really an anti-Hallmark poem, a la Charles Manson. Here goes...
When You Said Goodbye
bring in the funeral drum.
tonight i bury this fool,
this trifle, this rapture
for niceness.
i beat this drum for blood
for drops of salt to mix
with shreds of my viscera
cut by dagger corners of your smile.
this soup to lubricate all
the violations i intend
with all the vileness
i could dredge.
and from all the cankers
that result from this
i shall build a mound,
overlay it
with plucked eyebrows
and pieces of my scrotum.
with choicest fat
from your loveliness
i shall burn the pile
and feed on its ashes
for years to come.
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I hope that doesn't freak out anyone. But I think this conveys a certain range of emotions that one might go through when love goes bad. 'Happens to most of us.
Anyway, pop the cork and pass the Cristal! Happy New Year to everyone!
Cheers!
JP
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Do you guys have any poems na pwedeng "pang-Hallmark greeting card" and dating? Maybe stuff you wrote way back in highschool, or nung time na in-love na in-love ka? Post them here!
Wow, intense. I hope I'll never ever become your enemy, hehehe. Seriously though, nice poem, very...uhm, graphic yung imagery. But I guess some cruel heartbreaks can bring about that kind of bitterness.
Pero I have a "counter-poem" for that, (it's actually something by THE Lea Salonga):
Be not fearful of the pain
One finds when one loves...
Of the sleepless nights and
tearful days...
For it is rare that the chance to love,
And love deeply
Comes your way...
When it does, take it and fall,
Whatever the risk.
O diba? 
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This one is really an anti-Hallmark poem, a la Charles Manson. Here goes...
When You Said Goodbye
bring in the funeral drum.
tonight i bury this fool,
this trifle, this rapture
for niceness.
i beat this drum for blood
for drops of salt to mix
with shreds of my viscera
cut by dagger corners of your smile.
this soup to lubricate all
the violations i intend
with all the vileness
i could dredge.
and from all the cankers
that result from this
i shall build a mound,
overlay it
with plucked eyebrows
and pieces of my scrotum.
with choicest fat
from your loveliness
i shall burn the pile
and feed on its ashes
for years to come.
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I hope that doesn't freak out anyone. But I think this conveys a certain range of emotions that one might go through when love goes bad. 'Happens to most of us.
Anyway, pop the cork and pass the Cristal! Happy New Year to everyone!
Cheers!
JP
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Do you guys have any poems na pwedeng "pang-Hallmark greeting card" and dating? Maybe stuff you wrote way back in highschool, or nung time na in-love na in-love ka? Post them here!
Touche, Tristan, touche.
But you did mention something about bringing out our high school material, right?
Anyway, peeps, keep on truckin'.
JP
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Wow, intense. I hope I'll never ever become your enemy, hehehe. Seriously though, nice poem, very...uhm, graphic yung imagery. But I guess some cruel heartbreaks can bring about that kind of bitterness.
Pero I have a "counter-poem" for that, (it's actually something by THE Lea Salonga):
Be not fearful of the pain
One finds when one loves...
Of the sleepless nights and
tearful days...
For it is rare that the chance to love,
And love deeply
Comes your way...
When it does, take it and fall,
Whatever the risk.
O diba?
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This one is really an anti-Hallmark poem, a la Charles Manson. Here goes...
When You Said Goodbye
bring in the funeral drum.
tonight i bury this fool,
this trifle, this rapture
for niceness.
i beat this drum for blood
for drops of salt to mix
with shreds of my viscera
cut by dagger corners of your smile.
this soup to lubricate all
the violations i intend
with all the vileness
i could dredge.
and from all the cankers
that result from this
i shall build a mound,
overlay it
with plucked eyebrows
and pieces of my scrotum.
with choicest fat
from your loveliness
i shall burn the pile
and feed on its ashes
for years to come.
*******************
I hope that doesn't freak out anyone. But I think this conveys a certain range of emotions that one might go through when love goes bad. 'Happens to most of us.
Anyway, pop the cork and pass the Cristal! Happy New Year to everyone!
Cheers!
JP
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Do you guys have any poems na pwedeng "pang-Hallmark greeting card" and dating? Maybe stuff you wrote way back in highschool, or nung time na in-love na in-love ka? Post them here!
