RIC BASTASA Poems

so what are you looking for?
the future?
you rest yourself in that absurd future?

it may not come.
...

i keep what is
decent

i don't dance
with the music
...

there is this little girls with black curly hair
flat nose, thin eyelashes, wavy goatish eyelids,
sitting on a bamboo pole
(the common furniture there)
...

A poet must also learn
how to lead an attack
- Ho Chi Minh
...

life is temporary, so temporary that it is like something
that you see
and then don't because it has escaped like slippery water from
the hold of your hands,
...

a metaphor is easy to make
and so easy to recall

remember the cat's feet like a fog
...

a poem too can be male and female
the way we want it

i write it upon your urging
...

to still have the courage
to go on living
despite
all the odds of a life
...

Three dark
Shadows lurking
In the dark park
On a dark night
...

Love
is still the final word
even
during that inevitable
...