Generation Y

Generation Next,
raised on high expectations,
unsure horizons.

Yearning for substance,
lost in this desolation,
searching for meaning.

We must stand
together.

---<--@

Generation X

The Nomads, that's us.
This is my generation -
Generation X.

Defined by our hurt,
called by the needs of our world,
and hungry for hope.

We must stand
together.

---<--@

Oz

An island cont'nent
rich in bounty, good at heart -
that land Down Under!

I appreciate you!
Fairness and mateship, I learned:
Thy ode to ANZAC.

Convict chains
set me free.
---<--@

My favorite lines from Advance Australia Fair -

"Our land abounds in nature's gifts

of beauty rich and rare..."

"Beneath our radiant Southern Cross

we'll toil with hearts and hands

to make this Commonwealth of ours

renowned of all the lands..."

Rot

Something is rotten
in our native Philippines,
rotten to the core...

Forbearance is good
but to steal from our people
cries out to the LORD -

for Vengeance
and Justice!
---<--@

A "No" to Corruption is a "Yes" to the Republic.

Sword

If swords are evil
for virtue has ignored us,
woe to us, O LORD...

God of all virct'ry,
when Thy enemies rise up,
bind us to Thy will!

And evil
shall tremble.
---<--@

Peace is over War.

Army Ground

There's no taking ground
without Army boots, resound -
I walk Army ground!

Army boots pound ground
without Army boots, resound -
there's no Army ground!

Soldier boots,
Army ground!
---<--@

Ground that is not held first in the heart is ground that can not be held at all.

The Brave

Why is Superman -
so super? Is it because
he is born super?

Heroes are not born,
no one is honored just for
merely exisitng...

No try is
a wrong try.
---<--@

Standing Still

"Jesus Christ is LORD!",
the Spirit of God proclaim,
in witness of Truth.

Truth is in motion,
Love is everywhere breathing,
but faith must stand still.

We witness
through stillness.
---<--@

Doubt

When in doubt, then seek
but in the seeking, the sincere
shall be sure to find...

For the faithful heart
doubts not with mistrust, but remains
until he is found.

Doubt seeks but
faith is sought.
---<--@

True Giving

The happy giver
gives as our LORD gives, and so -
multiplies the gift...

But he who gives not
with the gifts of a giver
only but subtracts.

True giving
IS the gift.
---<--@

Big S

Yeah, she's quite wacky,
and she uses shocking words,
but always means well...

You can't just give up
when life gets you down, say "Yes!"
Big S for Big Smile.

Turn that frown
upside down.
---<--@

Hey

"Hey", I hear you say -
and in my heart, you're there,
and sweet as you are...

"Hey" is our hello,
how's life and I care 'bout you,
and all in one go.

Hey, is like,
I love you.
---<--@

Good Work

Good and honest work,
the kind that makes you happy,
isn't 'bout money...

Build ye first - within -
the Kingdom of our LORD God,
all else shall follow.

The wages
of virtue.
---<--@

Cherish Your Friendships

Sometimes, our LORD wills
for us to grow, or to bend,
and allows for friends.

Friends are the fam'ly
that makes us whole, they complete
and reflect our self.

Forever
one fam'ly.
---<--@

The Bridge

I saw the bridge - there -
spanning the abyss, yonder.
And I thought, "O LORD..."

"Thou made us nations
not to make us differ - but -
to make us agree."

To build peace
and bridge war.

---<--@

Love Your Family

Honor thy parents,
and listen to their counsel,
obeying the truth.

Love your family,
they are thy friends that God chose,
apart from thy kith.

Life begins
and ends here.
---<--@

Family is Family is Family

Our close family ties is a peculiar strength of our Filipino national identity.

In our society, the extended family plays an indispensable role in the raising of the generations.

The fact that we have grown presently accustomed to calling total strangers "ate" or "kuya" (a recent social adaptation) is a manifestation of this familial bent in the Filipino soul.

Truly, we are a nation passionate for identity, belonging, and most of all, family.

It is a strength we also share with our kindred nations, arrayed within our regional belongings (Asia South East), as well as with those others, equally beloved to all, that comprise our one, great continental belonging (Asia).

Now, notice that our characteristic close family ties is a strength and not a weakness.

BUT it is an intended strength because it is one that we must ever always choose to align harmoniously with the other wholes of human community -

from the individual
- being the person for whom -
the familial whole exists to shelter
and whose unique and unrepeatable spirit
the presence of the family serves to
fortify, guard and fulfill -

to the nations
that exist (for each other) as greater shelters
serving to bring various families
and diverse tribes together
in the spirit and peace
of one, single human community,
binding all into one freedom
- one lineage of victory -
making possible the building
of the inhabited earth.

- selah -

Indeed,
the family is the window
from which one learns about
the value of human relationships
- both vertical and horizontal -
and the singular doorway
that eventually permits all to enter
into the larger, nobler wholes
of human community.
---<--@

Past is Past

There exists a veil
between yesterday and now,
between life and void...

The past is a mire,
for there is no looking back -
to see what's ahead.

Stand your ground
in the now.
---<--@

The Now

Now is a moment
at the dawn of every grace;
a pause in the will.

If God were to ask,
"do you believe?" - to my heart -
Now is when I hear.

Now is when
time opens.
---<--@

Fiery Flower

The fiery flower
shook against thy innocence,
and in an instant -

Thy blossoms, they fell,
and lay still upon the cold,
awaiting the spring.

The war thawed,
life lingers.
---<--@

Just Being

O how nice it is -
just to forget, and sometimes,
remember right now:

That I am right here,
upon that hill by the shore,
upon our one song:

Just being
with Anne.
---<--@

Perseverance

A man once served, then -
thought about Judas and lo!
He betrayed Peter.

A man once loved, then -
thought about all the unlove
and said, "I serve not."

What kind of
love is that?
---<--@

Mars

Fiery rock of war,
blazing across the darkness,
burnt, bleeding away!

Thy great promise fled,
thy realms sundered, void of life;
thy hopes defeated!

Look at Mars,
look at us.
---<--@

Farewell to Promise

Farewell to promise,
the sun has set, it is dark,
and the night ponders...

Bittersweet the fruit
that once fallen, in dying -
remembers, remains...

resting, here,
with our hope.
---<--@

The Fall of Lucifer

Pride is a tower,
sitting high above others,
thinking to be God.

Pride is the first sin,
and the greatest lie of all.
It seeks division...

...for the sake
of itself.
---<--@

Love Ignored

Why does marriage fail,
when God's grace supports it's vows -
a union with Love...

Is there anything stronger
than love, anything nobler,
anything better?

Love ignored
undoes all.
---<--@