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Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Babytalk
By Emmanuelle
PUCKER the lips for the tsup tsup then stretch them wide for the mwah mwah. Smack a yummy yum yum for a mouth-watering fingerdip; spit out a yackity yuck for that nasty icky taste. Duh for the dumb act, ahhh if it dazzled and wawawi if you are staggered. Please meme the bebe [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2008 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Lost in translation
By Emmanuelle
You do not have to be a Filipino in Japan or in China, black-orbs among quaint slit-eyes, to be lost in translation.
You can be just as lost, if you were one or more centuries older than the present batch of spiked-haired pre-adults; dyed green, orange or any of the [...]
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Posted on December 31, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Time
By Emmanuelle
EACH time we crossover from December 31 to January 1, it is like seeing Alice of Wonderland fame opening a door from the present to future time.
Try to imagine this scene.
One day, Alice finds a door on which is carved the two faces of the Roman god, Janus. According to myth, [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
A Talk with God
By Emmanuelle
(Part 2)
They say: it could not be. She surely could not have had a talk with God.
She says: why could this not be? First, see that it could be, before you say it could surely not be. One must breathe in first, before one must breathe out. Or is [...]
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Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
A Talk with God
By Emmanuelle
Ten days before the birth of His Son, she writes of a talk with Him who sent down His Son. Too, she is back to the count of one. Like: Oh, gosh. Oh, God. Oh, hush.
There are times, you see, when it seems one is left with no choice [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Not yet a hero!
By Emmanuelle
THEY do not march off the gods from their thrones just like that. Na-ah. Senators, writers or sometime-soldiers can not have it so easy.
They have to be real heroes first. And real heroes, more often than not, are shot with their brothers at some dark huts. Or as they [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Nun to None
By Emmanuelle
ONE is such a lonely word. One beat each for a smudge of black here, a dash of white there, a hint of a smile on your face or a blink of a tear on mine. Hook one beat to one, you will have les deux, the two of them, beating [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Punch on Wounds
By Emmanuelle
SCENE I: Can you see this scene?
Let us call this third person Em, she who speaks for those with wounds that do not heal:
This whole week she steps and hums to the thud and the thump of a drum. The calls, the mails, the texts had come. From near and far, [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Wounds that do not heal
By Emmanuelle
You must read this through to the end to see the why of it:
Mae has had this wound since grade school. It should have scarred through the years. It should have healed. It did not.
It is one of those wounds that pierce through thin skin, stab through the heart, [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Knowing her is knowing me
By Emmanuelle
Let us imagine that this conversation did take place:
Inay: From now, you keep away from your so-called friends Ada, Ana and Ara. Ada is the snooty kid of a nouveau riche whose riche comes from who knows where.
Ana is a lesbian. Ara shows sure signs of insanity.
Inday: Why? (Defiantly.)
Inay: [...]
