Category: victor peñaranda

Slow Resolution

By Victor Peñaranda

May this year be a river
Of unhurried coincidences,
Accidents without meaning
Like explorers riding the trade winds,
Someone who finds love finer
Than rain, a golden slice of morning
Without straining for refrain.

May some days flow preciously
Faithful to passion than principle,
Heart-driven, trusting quietly
The resolve of wild emerald doves,
Skin of snake as memory
To kindle my prism of knowing
Those wounded and blindfolded.

May I heal at burning edge
For being loose-learner and late-bloomer,
Failing to hear what is clear.
I’ve been a moon of romance by chance,
Slow-moving resolution
To dissolve in the spontaneous,
Sing with the unforgiven.

1 January 2013
Bay, Laguna

Sensing Life

By Victor Peñaranda

As the year branches to an end
Two woodpeckers work busily
On the dry bone of ilang-ilang tree
Zapped by lightning a few months ago.
I can taste the ruins of rainforests
While walking across an empty field,
My body burdened by thoughts of typhoon,
The searing pain of devastation.
I long to whisper to weeds gone wild
The marvel of sensing life in pulses,
Flowing from reason to rhythmic season,
Intuitively waking up with a blue whale
To overpower the size of ambition.
The mind learns to bloom and fade, regain
Dusk from dawn, be ceaseless as the universe.
During moments of weakness and beauty
My heart is a tree bewildered by starlight.

Bay, Laguna
25 December 2012