by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Apr 30, 2020 | Poems
You gather the crowd to your delight,And claim you’ve done so to know of their plight.You hand over scraps because it feels rightBut your impulse, I know, is to give out of spite. You mourn in publicity, the lives gone in the day,And shed tears for the lonely as...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Apr 23, 2020 | Poems
I/am/a/sci/on.Borne/from/rich/rich/dy/nas/ties.I/am/im/por/tant. *** I/am/some/of/them.I/am/a/poli/ti/cian.I/am/above/you. *** I/just/had/my/test.And/peo/ple/said/’po/si/tive.’I/am/now/con/fused. *** My/fa/mi/ly/test.We/have/to/be/tes/ted/first.We/are/im/por/tant. ***...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Apr 23, 2020 | Poems
Let me show you, my friends;A scenery of how this will all end: Lifeless bodies lying and cut;Hungry stomachs belching the gut;People fighting to not and to oust;While the pandemic rages about. The blood spills over for those who are out;The price of grain cause you...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Apr 23, 2020 | Poems
The darkness is a blanket leading to oblivion;The mystery of the wind is a whisper in motion.For the leaves fall in the cup of absolution;Dead: the place of imagination,Becomes a dwelling for a sight unborn. The stranger offered me a dream;Infinity’s marriage to the...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Apr 23, 2020 | Poems
We lie scattered as this pandemic haunts.Holding on to ideals that divide our stance.It’s you versus me; them against us.And the battle cry against ones we can’t trust. Blame comes past after everyone’s aghast.From inaction and kill orders, we cry in the mass.What...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Apr 23, 2020 | Poems
You were admired for your wit and wisdom;And all was well with your ideals and brilliance.So they put you high up so that they can go up;From a dirt-poor country and citizens in scraps. It was too soon, they then realized;For your wit and wisdom were not to be...