Poetry: Ade Caparas Manilah

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ade caparas manilah… a.k.a. Ade Orosa, ade c., Gandah Manilah, a Philippine born but an Australian citizen since 1991 says, ‘my affection for writing and poetry can be traced since i was a meagre toddler, four year old… “She could create a short story out of a piece of stone or a leaf.” my mother would say.’ i am a no lukewarm, scorpio woman, born 04 november, divorce with 10 children .. my life has always been an alternating rainbow and stormy weather! _ I am not an intellectual, only witty… and to borrow Montaigne’s word, “and so I myself see better than anyone else that these are nothing but reveries of a man who has tasted only the outer crust of science in his childhood, and has retained only a vague general picture of them: a little of everything and nothing thoroughly”. A study-addict, always a student mingling with the young… a class top notcher, a valedictorian, a declaimer, a debater during my elementary grades and high school days; also an honer student, a deans lister in all colleges and universities… i have reached my goals!

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#1

‘rare’

“i love so quickly so intensely like a forceful wind, smashing flood… yet i am also a fragile plum sprout that can stand unnumbered degree of velocity, still in vibrant brilliance after the storm!” _ade c.

you… haughty wind

and i

a flimsy blossom

quiet in comfort

watching the silent streams

suddenly

you… in concert with

the surging flood

smash crush me!

exert forceful velocity

whip me carry me

and i, like a timid plum

willingly bend

in an idiotic surrender

seemingly

in total jouissance

unmindful of my

future yesterday!

ahhhh..

darling i love you

don’t you forget that

your wind

your flood

will come and go

smashing crushing

other blooms

but… i am rare!

art selfie & philosophical discourse: ade caparas manilah

sunday 3:05pm o4 march 2018 sydney nsw australia

#2

“40 shades of climate change”

summer… bubbles
autumn… tickles
winter… cuddles
spring… sings
‘climate change’ arouses me!

no! wait!

please not yet

don’t don't come

you’ll ruin my silk channel

ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

oh… ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

your ‘machiavellian’ gismo

in ‘kahuts’

with treacherous

thunder and lightning!

now… my silk channel is wet

hugs sculpts contours

funny…

that’s my body burning

ahhhh… your pouring rain!

naughty poem by: ade caparas manilah

sunday 3:22pm 04 march 2018

sydney nsw australia

first published: first virtual poetry.. a one-woman show: Library World Arts of Memories

11 february to 31 march 2014

  

#3

“a wood nail mimics your life?”

“poetry comes in many forms: free verse, septon, haiku, quatrain, diamante, ode, epic, ballad, etc.,

but it must be appreciated without the benefit of accompanied  image… this is a great challenge…

hmmmmmmm… i’ll dip my finger  to this challenge!” _ade c.

life is a challenge, difficult to live

yet challenges  can be won

swaying trees, running brooks

pebbles nails fruits food

birds dogs books songs singing

anything under the sun

is identical to our life

they are models

mimics miniatures of our life

our challenges… 

one day, i cooked ‘lengua estofada’

hmmmmmmm yam… 2.5 kilos

kaput in one sitting

preparation was tedious

whole raw lengua boiled to skin; off thick outer skin

then simmer with all the ingredients for hours

when tender in their natural thick sauce

it’s the shining glory… salivated by all

‘lengua estofada’ is life model!

hammered fired hammered

cut scraped cut

before fine gold appears

everything… our five senses can seize  

are examples of life challenges

like now…now, a hora mismo

i am being challenged  to write a poetry

without support of an image graphic artwork

the challenge

i paint my  thoughts in words

so my readers won’t fall asleep… they are left challenged…

a wood nail mimics your life?

philo poetry by: _ade caparas manilah

sunday 3:34pm 04 march 2018

sydney nsw australia

first published: monday 5:38pm 22 june 2015 sydney australia

Setu, April 2018