Salvie Rosales Poems

My friends can say in just few words
Which I cannot say in many words.
That I am somebody, I am worthwhile
I am important and I have sweet smile.
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My first love understood me well,
He’d ask me question-the questions,
But……
He’d never knowing how I felt,
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After you’re gone,
There shall be starlight still
Shimmering silver o’er our trysting hill;
There shall be music yet,
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(Dedicated to Manny Pacquiao,
my first poem I wrote in Tagalog,
Filipino language)
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You wonder why my feelings
For you, my love, are sung,
And never plainly phrased by
The unaffecting tongue.
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Curious the changes wrought by Time and Fate
These voiceless echoes only ghost can hear
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“You are my One Beloved, ”
He whispered yesterday.
How sweet a song it seems to me,
And sweetest sung his way.
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While the enamored stars would dare
Seaward to leap,
Seeking a truer heaven in
The loved deep,
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Were I to meet you face to face again
And hear your voice as in remembered days,
With mellow laughter clipped in now and then,
And note dear traces of your wonted ways,
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My heart new only hate for you at first,
Seeking your laughter priced at my pain,
The sating of your spirit at my thirst,
Sun of your heavens, at my heaven’s rain.
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