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TO BEGIN WITH
Forgive me, it's another busy week for me and my laptop. So here’s just sharing a few more poems from “The Big Blue and Me.”
The days continue to fly, it will be February next week and Valentine's Day the week after that. The journey goes on. Meanwhile, Sleep Warm.
BEFORE SUNLIGHT
by Emon
I love the sunrise colors
not just now in Cebu
but every day,
every day that God
is good to share
His red, orange and
yellow with me.
Lately I sleep late
and so I seldom see
the scarlet morning
or the gold behind trees.
This morning is enchanting,
holding me still on my seat.
Baby, you’re gonna miss that plane.
Please. Don’t let it be today.
(January 2009)
THE WAY HOME
I love the sunrise colors
not just now in Cebu
but every day,
every day that God
is good to share
His red, orange and
yellow with me.
Lately I sleep late
and so I seldom see
the scarlet morning
or the gold behind trees.
This morning is enchanting,
holding me still on my seat.
Baby, you’re gonna miss that plane.
Please. Don’t let it be today.
(January 2009)
THE WAY HOME
by Emon
Don’t be afraid
to sail along with whales
or swim naked with seals.
As travelers and explorers
we should use
whatever kind of ship it takes
to make our journey home
go smoothly across the oceans.
And if you love somebody
tell them.
Love’s a better compass
for sailing through the years
than anything humans
ever made.
Believe it. Try it, anyway.
(January 2009)
- from “The Big Blue and Me”, 2009
Raymund's Random Thoughts
Having no fear is the trademark of fools.
Today is the day to give your dreams a new beginning.
What hurts you the most is the one you love the most.
Poem of the Week
STAR-SAILING
Don’t be afraid
to sail along with whales
or swim naked with seals.
As travelers and explorers
we should use
whatever kind of ship it takes
to make our journey home
go smoothly across the oceans.
And if you love somebody
tell them.
Love’s a better compass
for sailing through the years
than anything humans
ever made.
Believe it. Try it, anyway.
(January 2009)
- from “The Big Blue and Me”, 2009
Raymund's Random Thoughts
Having no fear is the trademark of fools.
Today is the day to give your dreams a new beginning.
What hurts you the most is the one you love the most.
Poem of the Week
STAR-SAILING
by Emon
See the stars.
Count them.
Watch the stars go sailing
through the sky.
And as the stars
move through the heavens
preordained and predestined,
so too our hearts here and there
float along as if by prearrangement.
Now they’re everywhere,
up above and in the ocean,
barefoot and barelimbed on beaches
they illuminate white waves
and disappear like lovers
in the final feathered plunge.
Can this be a game
of hide and seek
or some new dance routine
designed to awe-inspire?
Are they innocent
of what they do to me
or I am meant to be
an audience from afar?
See how they fly
hurriedly
as if there were no time.
Yet the night is only beginning
and they will still have
hours together.
But we will have years.
If they covered up
with familiar rain clouds
tonight or any when,
my heart will yet have joy
to last beyond a lifetime.
Because we will have years.
(January 2009)
See the stars.
Count them.
Watch the stars go sailing
through the sky.
And as the stars
move through the heavens
preordained and predestined,
so too our hearts here and there
float along as if by prearrangement.
Now they’re everywhere,
up above and in the ocean,
barefoot and barelimbed on beaches
they illuminate white waves
and disappear like lovers
in the final feathered plunge.
Can this be a game
of hide and seek
or some new dance routine
designed to awe-inspire?
Are they innocent
of what they do to me
or I am meant to be
an audience from afar?
See how they fly
hurriedly
as if there were no time.
Yet the night is only beginning
and they will still have
hours together.
But we will have years.
If they covered up
with familiar rain clouds
tonight or any when,
my heart will yet have joy
to last beyond a lifetime.
Because we will have years.
(January 2009)
- from “The Big Blue and Me”, 2009
AND FINALLY
"Sailing" by Christopher Cross is one of my favorite songs of all time. It was one of my inspirations when I wrote The Big Blue and Me.
Every time I listen to it, as its final melodies fade, I always find myself anchored in its beauty. It was always a journey through the depths of my heart, guiding me through the ebbs and flows of life's water. It gives me hope that, knowing with each wave we conquer, our hearts sail ever closer to each other.
Thanks for stopping by - see you next week.
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