Making A Poem While Chatting With Friends At Facebook... Poem by RIC BASTASA

why do we really have to think that seriously
to an extent
we lose ourselves in those ideas

we failed in the grace of spontaneity

just write what comes at the stairs of your consciousness
open the door and let it enter
welcome it
offer it a nice seat

do no ask from where it comes
why it is here or what happened to it
why it has drifted here
what ill wind caused it?

offer her a bed to sleep in the room of your
heart
after a sumptuous dinner

after you have accommodated it
go back to chatting with your friends in the internet

they have long been waiting for your answers to their questions
definitely trivial
those that do not change the course of this world

and you ask. 'where are we? '

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nganong hunahunaon pa man gayod kaayo
mawala na hinoon ang

spontaneity

isulat lang ang unang miabot sa hagdanan sa imong utok
pasudla sa pultahan
og palingkora sa imong bangko

ayaw na pangutan-a kon dis-a kini gikan
og naunsa kini
nganong napadpad siya sa balay sa imong panumduman

imbitaha nga matulog sud sa lawak sa imong kasingkasing
human sa usa ka panihapon

kon mahaluna na siya
padayon sa

chat sa imong mga amigo og amiga
nga ganiha rang gapaabot sa imong mga tubag sa ilang mga pangutana

asa na gani ta?