Ferdinand L Quintos Poems

Joy floated like fragrance
As I watched you asleep
So serenely in my arms
Moments after your birth,
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One started a discussion
but hates contrary opinion,

he sees it as an aspersion,
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Think not I am writing for fame
about a friend’s beloved’s death,
I feel his loss to near self-same
but tuck it in my heart beneath
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Your are a big help in men’s life,
that puts in the proper context

the meaning of all their actions,
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You were by my forebears lovingly brought
when they felt deep poverty’s onslaught
towards the end of the Spanish times, *
left Ilocos** to seek auspicious climes.
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In my romance with the dictionary,
kinds of English there are almost many,
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You are the new scent that perfumes
my world engulfed by hatred's fumes,
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When I opened my eyes and took a look,
I saw you sitting alone in a nook,
as I stirred you quietly came near
and from my cheek wiped away a tear.
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I am the true dandelion,
my name means the heart of a lion,
I grow in out-of-the-way nooks
but people can not miss my looks.
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A rosebud opens gently,
to my eye, imperceptively,
its fragrance oozes slowly,
all around me smells sweetly.
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