“Song For A Tulip”
By: Benedict Salvacion
I loved thee in the quietness of the wind
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What is it in your name? Your smiles?
For it captures me...
Why do you move like a swan in summertime?
Gentle and yet so wild...
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Silence, an infinite melancholy
washed in waves over my seventh sea
voyaging to the abyss of my limit
emotion stood still, to sail no permit
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La Canto Finale
(An Ode to Joan Camahalan)
By: Benedict Salvacion
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Let me bring you thoughts from the clouds
Fly with me,
Visit the realm of reveries
Let ourselves be lost
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Calm me oh! Moonshine!
Your son at rest before your arms
Amass the tears and the mourning of your child.
Embrace me by your breath
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Farewell! Tang my tears enslaved by thee
Tied swirl in maze aghast
Claimed eyes of blinded men
Hidden neath’ thou bitter breast
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