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Claiming Alexandria: Sugar & Spice: A Review of Only A Kiss by Ines Bautista-Yao
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Everyday poetry, poetry for every day. Insights. Epiphanies. The full measure. The last word. The only things left to say. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Sugar and Spice: A Review of Only A Kiss by Ines Bautista-Yao. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Sugar and Spice: A Review of Only A Kiss. This review has been long overdue. You know that it's a good story because you get lost while reading it. Well, that's what happened to me when I read. Disclosure: I am a friend of the author. :-). View all my reviews. Marian Mal...
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Claiming Alexandria: A Reflection on "Touch Me" by Stanley Kunitz
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Everyday poetry, poetry for every day. Insights. Epiphanies. The full measure. The last word. The only things left to say. Tuesday, July 30, 2013. A Reflection on "Touch Me" by Stanley Kunitz. Image of the book from which the poem below comes from. Summer is late, my heart. Words plucked out of the air. Some forty years ago. When I was wild with love. And torn almost in two. Scatter like leaves this night. Of whistling wind and rain. It is my heart that's late,. It is my song that's flown. By Robert Hass...
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Claiming Alexandria: Kulintang
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Everyday poetry, poetry for every day. Insights. Epiphanies. The full measure. The last word. The only things left to say. Thursday, January 29, 2015. Photo of kulintang (creative commons license) attributed to Phillip Dominguez Mercurio. I was just crying over this. Too many people have died in Maguindanao. Is made of eight gongs. Each of them has a name. This is for all the fallen. By Justine C. Tajonera. A shadow passes,. Grass in the sun,. Blood in the soil. A flock of birds. Cannot hide the sound.
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Claiming Alexandria: #buqoYA: Finishing a Portrait of Jade
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Everyday poetry, poetry for every day. Insights. Epiphanies. The full measure. The last word. The only things left to say. Monday, March 02, 2015. BuqoYA: Finishing a Portrait of Jade. BuqoYA class pic (not a complete one, though) last Feb. 28, 2015. We had cupcakes! I am a fan of Mina V. Esguerra. Okay, first of all, what is #buqoYA? It's an online YA (young adult) story writing class moderated by Mina V. Esguerra (with two optional face-to-face classes) sponsored by buqo. It's narrow enough to challeng...
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Claiming Alexandria: Snuggle Wuggle Wee: A Story Behind The Story and The Launch This Weekend
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Everyday poetry, poetry for every day. Insights. Epiphanies. The full measure. The last word. The only things left to say. Friday, November 22, 2013. Snuggle Wuggle Wee: A Story Behind The Story and The Launch This Weekend. I just want to share with you a lovely project that I worked on together with two other moms from the organization called LATCH. I had just come from the Little Lit Festival. Arranged by the National Book Development Board and I was itching to work on a children's book. Family, it's n...
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Claiming Alexandria: Dispelling The Mystery Around Menstrual Cups
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Everyday poetry, poetry for every day. Insights. Epiphanies. The full measure. The last word. The only things left to say. Monday, July 29, 2013. Dispelling The Mystery Around Menstrual Cups. Note: This blog post is about feminine products for menstruation. You've been given fair warning. :-). Dispelling The Mystery Around Menstrual Cups. By Justine C. Tajonera. I got introduced to menstrual cups last year after reading about feminine hygiene product waste on PCIJ: A Feminine Challenge. Then the size 2 w...
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Claiming Alexandria: Forty
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Everyday poetry, poetry for every day. Insights. Epiphanies. The full measure. The last word. The only things left to say. Friday, January 23, 2015. Kalachuchi/ frangipani/ plumeria - by Renesis (wikimedia commons). By Justine C. Tajonera. Halfway down the steps, toward. The gate, the kalachuchi. Over the small pond in the cemetery. Comes to mind. She is waiting. For me. I look forward to that. Day It's just that I have so much. To do Not enough days to watch them. The ruins in Mycenae yet, he and I.
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Claiming Alexandria: #4 of 36: The Tragedy of Having Gods as Parents: A Review of The Chrysanthemum Palace by Bruce Wagner
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Everyday poetry, poetry for every day. Insights. Epiphanies. The full measure. The last word. The only things left to say. Friday, March 20, 2015. 4 of 36: The Tragedy of Having Gods as Parents: A Review of The Chrysanthemum Palace by Bruce Wagner. My rating: 3 of 5 stars. The Tragedy of Having Gods as Parents: A Review of. The main reason I got this book was because one of the main characters is called Clea. Clea is the title of one of the. It took me more than a few months to. The novel was full of pat...
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Claiming Alexandria: Being in a Baker's Shoes: A Review of Save The Cake by Stella Torres
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Everyday poetry, poetry for every day. Insights. Epiphanies. The full measure. The last word. The only things left to say. Friday, March 20, 2015. Being in a Baker's Shoes: A Review of Save The Cake by Stella Torres. My rating: 3 of 5 stars. Being in a Baker's Shoes: A Review of. By Stella Torres (*spoilers ahead). My first reaction to the story was: why is everyone talking formally and without contractions (ex. I do not understand why women put on makeup)? She's 28 years old! View all my reviews. Marian...
