TristanCafe Pinoy Poetry Forum
Contribute your poetic masterpieces here. Anything and everything is welcome, including clumsy poems that you wrote during first-year high school. Also, feel free to post comments about the other poems that were submitted 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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Replying to:
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.
