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With me still!

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By Jing Villamil   (a monosyllabic prosepoem) WHEN you gave up this fight, the sun the moon the stars sighed out with you. They still shine up there; of course, they would. But to my eyes, their lights had dimmed; to their ears I shall hum no more the songs…

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With me still!

By December 5, 2021Feelings

Puzzles!

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By Jing Villamil   SHE trips on sunsets. No, she does not have the habit of falling flat on her face during “pag-aagawan ng liwanag at dilim”. It is more like a dropping to her knees, of being unceasingly stunned by its miraculous significance and magnificence! Where she ends, she…

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Puzzles!

By November 14, 2021Feelings

Remembering!

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By Jing Villamil   START with the black-and-white pictures you yourself hand glued on stiff pages of thick, heavy hard-bound albums. Summer beaches, our sandy fingers spooning adobo, bangus, pakbet while shivering in bathing-suits home-sewn by Mom. Weekend movies for free in your Dagupan cousins’ theaters; ice cream afterwards in…

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Remembering!

By November 1, 2021Feelings

Small miracles at a time!

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By Jing Villamil   SHE sat still on her son’s swivel chair. Its thickly padded back, neck and head rest seemed to swallow all of her; she had lost so much weight the past nights, days. From tight grip of the cup of coco on her palms, she raised a…

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Small miracles at a time!

By September 27, 2021Feelings

Blood Smells

By | Feelings, Opinion

By Jing Villamil THEY moved on fast, these young ones. From sweet dates to wedded bliss, from pregnant bellies to squealing babies,   who in turn, by their little selves, moved on even faster, from crawlers to toddlers to brawlers. And having moved  so early on and so furiously fast, a…

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Blood Smells

By March 22, 2021Feelings, Opinion

Feelings

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A crossing . . . By Jing Villamil   WAS it browning or greening, this broad strip of grass fronting the half-block of her home? And as she pondered on the puzzle, she slid down to it on her numbed haunches. She crossed her legs, leaned her elbows on her…

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Feelings

By March 8, 2021Feelings, Opinion

Feelings

By | Feelings, Opinion

No tears for him! (a monosyllabic prose) By Jing Villamil   SHE, too, has her tales to pour out of her cup. Which, she says, is not half-full, but half-chucked. “Not all my fault,” she claims, “not all.” And she lifts her eyes up to the skies. She heaves a…

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Feelings

By February 22, 2021Feelings, Opinion