In case you’re wondering, all the poems I have ever written are true to life. The descriptions, especially the proper nouns (names of buildings, roads, brand names, cities, states, nationality) are accurate. Each love poem is written for only one person, and he is a real, flesh-and-blood person, and you can usually find the man’s named tagged at the bottom of the poem. The date and time I posted the poems on are the real date and time that I was feeling the emotions I wrote about.
I can’t write any other way. And believe me, I tried.
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A Love to Get up and Go to Work for
Magnum Opus
Just like the Way we Used to Pass Notes in Class
The Road, Where Love Stories are Baked into the Asphalt
Poets Crossing
Middle Ground
The Only Past Worth Having
Wordsmith Confessions
The Elements Wrote This Story
Halfway Through Metamorphosis
A Path For Faith To Burn Through
Wildcard
Ascent
The Chaos behind the Curtain
Loved and Luminous
Louder Than Words
Like Russian Ballet Under Jamaican Rain
Before Mythology Gave Them Names
A Matter of Reflection
The Disease was Never the Cure
Signed, Lois Lane
Behold Your Dark Horse
It’s not Over for the Moth Until it Burns
A Lifetime Supply of Blank Pages and White Canvas
Greenhouse
The Inside Man
The Past Lives of Stars
Beautiful Awakening
Last Flight Out
Excerpts from Emigrant Correspondence
Silken and Mauve
Set against a Leonid Afremov Backdrop
Hang Up
Nemesis
Mezzo Piano Love
Pièce de Résistance
Every Winter is Somebody’s First Winter
As in the Vessel where they Age the Wine
The Soul of Winter is Introspection
If God was a Poet
Sweet Solstice
Birth of Diamonds
Don’t Put Love Last
The Bouquet was Still Fresh the Next Morning
Save the Antiheroine
Western Sunrise
Shining in the Window and Dreaming Away
Something Borrowed and Blue
You don’t have to see me off.
Between the Commotion and the Void
Pain Becomes Parable
The Worst Demons Are The Ones We Need
Letter to the Grave Robbers
Square One
Therefore I Am
R.E.M.
Constellations in Swarovski
Loving in Sequels
The Color of the Ocean after a Storm
The Wedding Entourage
Fireworks Over Downtown Chicago
From Dream to Reality and Back
The Monster Inside
Just Wake Me When The Next Chapter Begins
At the Corner of Maria Clara and Dimasalang
How to Walk on Water
Fragment of the Splintered Sun
Sleepwalking on Session Road
Footprints on the Clouds
Midsummer Night’s Insomnia
Facing It ≠ Putting Your Heart In It
Eloquence
If Life had a Soundtrack
Anthem
Fort
Wind in the Tunnel and the Light at the End
Please Surrender your Cupid Arrows for Inspection
I Love You from the Bottom of My Hard Drive
Through Amazon Rain and Las Vegas Glitter
With Your Permission
Snakes and Ladders
She’s No Disney Princess
Moon Spell
Love Me Vintage
All is Transit
Taboo
Butterflies
Your Hands All Over My Pages
Raspberry City
Night Falls on Piedras Platas
A Walk on Pont des Arts
Skinny Dipping in Cassiopeia
Where the Light Hits the Water
In the Days of Galileo
Kintsukuroi (金繕い)
K1
Between Worlds
The Space Debris In Your Head
Runaway Siren Come Home
The Postcard Stops at Seven Places
Cross Examiner’s Labyrinth
The Broken Record
For the Love of Puppies and Grape Kool Aid
I Know Where the Bodies are Buried
Unfinished Epitaph
Cheshire Twilight
Please Don’t Stop Playing This Symphony
Rumi’s Camera
Nights in Alexandria
Brute Force
The Golden Mean
A Viking’s Funeral, Please
The Same River Twice
Of Melodies Pure and True
Stay for the Fireworks
A Rose in Winter
Atlantis
The Distortion may be Part of the Message
Dancing Across The Universe
The Trouble with Willful Forgetting
Details that the Light might have Missed
As with the Sculptor Freeing Lovers from their Marble Prison
Belated Thoughts on Venus Transit
Snow Angel
The tenant left. But he brought his keys.
Lives are Made of Days
The Graceful Pause
The Gallery of Impressionist Paintings
A Study in Calligraphy
The Way Gravity Choreographs the Fall
Daylight Saving Hour
The Waters of Shangri-La
A Vigil in Two Shifts
Quantum Origami
Duplicating Light Through Mirrors
Through an Open Window at the Renaissance
The Faint Pulse
Singing After Dark
The Rewriting of Night by Sunrise
The Fine Print of Ever After
Your Love Sounds Like Pages Turning
Of Converging Lines and Vanishing Points
Beautiful Ordinary
Love is not Ill-Mannered
The Language That Your Soul Thinks In
Everybody has a Peninsula Manila story.
Passion by Mandelbrot
Pearl
The Dilation of Time as in Dreams
Panglao Passage
The Reconnaissance Mission Has Been Compromised
The Can’t Live Without
Red Sky Morning
The Last Mile to the Altar
Like A Soul Now Unfettered
Eternity’s Preferred Metaphor
The Bellini was Served in a Klein Bottle
“…so then they are no longer two…”
Towards Summer, On Foot
I Can Sleep Soundly Tonight
Peaches
Memories of Station One
Think Wrinkles, Gray Hair, Grandchildren
Synesthesia
Scribbled with a Maybelline Lip Liner on a Thomas Lee Pillowcase
Prelude to Dream
And This Must Be What All Those Poets Are Talking About
The Crossover to Miniloc Island
A Shared Canvas
Loving by Example
Scheherazade’s Diary
Dreaming in Black and White, Waking up
Debut
If Your Phone Rings Tonight
The Perfect Embrace
If They Ask You Why We Did It, Tell Them
Love isn’t Always Written in Code
The Line Beyond Which The Unknown Begins
Rapunzel’s Release
The Yellow Brick Road out of Wonderland
The Boss Fight in the Video Game
Oleander
Cross the Line with Me
Resolution
The Decryption Key Can’t Be Used Twice
King
There’s a Will
By The Time You Find This
Committed
When Destiny Calls
Promised
Through Hellfire and Brimstone
The Everyday Fairy Tale
Late Light
The All That Love Has Conquered
The Evening Summer and I Traded Places
Come Home Every Time You Can
The Walls are Asking to be Torn Down
Love in the Nude
Moorish Hero
Playing the What-If Game in a Blissful Place
Footnote
Make Our Relationship Public
The Reality That Raised Me
The Closeness Of You
Your Bride
The Way From The Crash Site To The Well
Where The Light Took Me
Here, Next To You
Sweet Dreams, Love
My Favorite Miracle
Love With A Plan
The Railing, The Ever After
Feels Like Making Love
Eyewitness Testimony
He Had To Love Me
Certainty
When He Holds Me
The Day It Rained
His Heart Is Eloquent
On A Night Like This
Blindfold Off
Six-Lane Catwalk
Descended from Job
Natural Death
Flying Lessons
Sometimes I’m Beautiful
Falling towards June
Passengers’ Manifesto
The Footage that Didn’t Make the Movie
What Dreams May Come
Golden Child
A Night with Aleph-Null Moons
Succumbing to the Blur
Beauty’s Favored
Thirst
The Uncharted Horizon
Be Careful Whom You Touch
The Insatiable
Love, as an Interruption of Nature
Sta. Cena
I’m Ready
We are Part Water, Part Light
Why Judge a Naked Soul
Morning Agenda: Undo Yesterday
It Always Takes Two
The Shoes That She Wears
Tagaytay Flora
Good Man
The Patient Wait
Hypersomnia
All The Beautiful Things
I Fall Apart
The City that Knows Me
I’m Only a Mirror of What I See
Separate the Good from the Bad
Through the Glass, Gracefully
Hold Me
My Rare Second Chance
Woman in the Mirror
Conversing with Echoes
Marked by the Serpent
If All Roads Lead to Rome
Get Out Of Your Own Way
Ransom
Last Reason Standing
The Woman Who Needs You
If This is the Last Time
The Soul’s Cul-de-Sac
Change Your Mind
Just Let Me Love You
We Were Meant For This
Walking Into Love
You Are
Between Two People And God
Inadvertent Springtime
Falling the Second Fall
Loved
Lovable at First Sight
The Words in Italics
Walking Home
Don’t Look Down
But Can You Love Me Anyway
The World’s Longest Poem
Intimacy
I Need You To
Here and Now
What You’ll Never Hear Me Say
Tama Na
The View from the Fifteenth Floor
Light Through Orange Murano Glass
Don’t Be Afraid
Ardent Streetscape
Clock Strikes Twelve
Dreamcatcher
Profession
I Didn’t Fall in Love with You
I Want You
Losing Juliet
And I Say to Myself, “What a Wonderful World…”
Ulterior Motive
After the Exorcism
I Always Think It’s You
Darkness that the Blind are Familiar to
Song
A Longest Night
Let’s Have A Love Affair
Lunar Eclipse
Let’s Be Somewhere Else
On The Line
Not Ready to Be Friends
One Day at a Time
Big City, Bright Lights
Two Soul Junction
Shooting Star
Nightlife
I Need You to Touch Me
Take Responsibility
What It Translates To
The Tail End
The Essential Shakespeare
Escape Artist
The Voice of Contempt
2nd through 11th
Never Kiss Me Again.
Love Junkie
Where Are You?
Man on the Hanford Billboard
Ikot Jeep Sonata
Dear O. Henry
Like Perfume
Make It Wonderful
When Will I See You Again?
Virgin Feet
939
More Fertile Ground
Hypothetically Speaking
Dishonest Poetry
My Citrus Valentine
Don’t Worry
Third Eye Clarity
Hitchhiker
Withdrawal Symptoms
Things That Have No Place
The Pendulum Swings
To Be Your Queen
Fin
Checkmate
Sworn Disciples of Love
Of Women And Objects
Soul Striptease
No Hands
Don’t Speak
The Man Of / In My Dreams
I Didn’t Mean To
Perfect Stranger
What He Doesn’t Know
You Could Be
Let Me Have This Morning
The Morning After
Her Forgiveness
No Shortcut to Grace
What Doesn’t Kill You
Hers
Think Again
And Then I Had No Words
Off the Wagon
Your Escape, My Heaven
a.k.a. Truth
When the Answer is Only Four Days Away
Gusto Kong Masaksihan
Ever Day I Love You
Kisses from the Soul
Lose Control With Me
My Sins
The Next Time You See Me
Overwrite Password
If I Could Ask God One Question
Nothing Works
Tell Me You Don’t Love Me
Not About Loneliness
Afterthoughts on a Long-Overdue Phone Call
Denouement
Fast
Regrettable
Apostasy
Damn Liars
So
Sometimes Silence
L’Amour
No Two Sunsets
Waiting for Tears
Dead Silence
Love, Truncated in Places
How Long I Loved You
Typhoon Season
Greenbelt on a Rainy Night
Finite Shore
Validated
How Did You Get Here?
I Found You
Feels Like the Flu
Lines Before Sunrise
I Just Want to Be with You
“Everything is All Right”
T-Mo
South Pole Woman
Ventriloquist
Love’s Fault
Fear Itself
Soul Tattoo
Serendipity on Paseo de Roxas
Stockholm Syndrome
A Man Who Believes In Love
The Second Time Around
Drunk With Night
The Greatest Heartbreak of All
Emergency Dinner With My Secret Keeper
McKinley Road
If He Took the Time to Put it into Words
Third Party
Why Can’t We Choose Who We Love?
Señor
Tomorrow Might Be Too Late
Dangerous State of Mind
I Walk
Mea Culpa
Men and Women
I Will Be Good To You
One-Life Stand
He Turned Me Into A Poem
Long Night
Silent Truth
And Even If I’m Wrong
I Just Need A Sign
Overcome
Missing You
Cold Feet
Collaboration of a Lifetime
Mr. Love Poet
Yes, I Believe in Magic
Waiting on a Miracle
When I Said, ‘Make Love to Me’
Ciudad de los Ángeles
Insecure
Before My Faith Runs Out
Beautiful
Duet
Because of You
I Can’t Wait
High / Addicted
Waiting For Your Call
Encounter
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
I’m calling this morning because
Don’t Fall. Jump.
Both Fragile
Imperfect
Why Not Happily Ever After?
Just One Night
When You Think of Me
Use Me
On this Side of the Wall
Like a Kiss
Unprotected
Between Zero and Infinity
Summary
Amnesia, Please
The Semiotics of You
Flying Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Antithesis
Two Female Poets Talking in a Café
Episode
Dear Player
Spoiled
Iris, I Triple-Dare You
Paging Dr. Freud…
Soul Detox
Café Juanita 04.24.2010
Somewhere Beautiful
And My Eyes Were Closed
Playing Dirty
Curiosity for Destruction
Not Like This
Don’t Read Me
My Personal Morpheus
I Know It’s You
Maybe I Make You
Goethe’s Faustine
Asylum Cinderella
Try To Be OK
On Temporary Things
Hall of Mirrors
Distance Formula on an Oblique Spheroid
Happy Thoughts on 37ºC Heat
Enigma
Chemistry
Phoenix
Romance in Progress
Masquerade
Makati Nocturne
I Remember Love As It Was
Between the Moon and a Montblanc Fountain Pen
Faith’s Paradox
Deadlock
Handicap to Healing
I Used to Be So Powerful
Final Sanctuary
Let Me Walk Around Your Soul
Tug-of-War
Mind Sex
Corollary
Until I Fell in Love with a Poet
That Easy
Spare the More Celestial Things
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Destiny is Like
More Potent than Coffee
At the Root of My Writer’s Block
Only this Sky
Because I’m Older Now
I Hate You
Invitation
I’d Rather Have You
For One Moment
Kismet
I Sit in Your Heart
Tonight I Get Old
If I Had Known
If It’s Not Too Much To Ask
Please Come Closer
Life’s Staccato Steps
Ode to Breakfast
I Don’t Even Know How I Got Here
Confession
Shrewd
Embrace the Flame
Rizal’s Dulce Extranjera
Ravings and Ramblings of a Topophiliac
And When I Tell You I Love You
A Different Name to Call My Loneliness
In Retrospect
Text-Back to a Millionaire’s Daughter
Fairy Tale
On a Cab along Dela Rosa Street
I dropped my pen. I hope it still works.
The Credence of My Soul’s Undoing
US Visa Application, Take Two
I Look for You
I Overheard Sandra Telling June
The Truth Is
Bronze Goddess
Come Alive with Me
Repeat (Again)
Stranger
Let’s Fall in Love this Summer
Every Breathless Ticking Moment
Poet at an Impasse
Saint Exupery’s Tippler
Sans Rationale
The Kind of Woman I Want My Daughter to Be
My Equilibrium
Acute Involutional Paranoia
Sacramento – Manila
X-Rated Words
Six Billion to One
Melancholy
Cautious
Pet Phrase
21st Century Garden of Eden
O Zahir
Pipe Dreams and the Most Impossible Thing
A Shot at Too Good to Be True
I Want You to Tell My Heart that it’s OK
Two Poets Dancing the Tango
Wait Till You Touch Me
Corner Coffee Shop
Mine
You Don’t Understand
Between Relationships
Revelations
Lost and Found
New Year’s Eve 2009
So Rare
Sleepless 2
Sleepless 1
Excuse Me
Everything
Yes
After Reading Maxine Syjuco
Walang Pinag-ibang Pasko, 2009
You Should Feel Complete, But
You Who Must Not Be Named
Jigsaw Piece of Advice
Written on a Möbius Strip
Countdown to California Starts Today
I Tell You Now
Too Strong
The Ultimate Thing
Let Yourself Go
Fearless
The Thrill of the Forbidden
La Bella Figura
Poison and Daggers
Life Metaphors on the 6 a.m. Train
You’re So Unfair
Lonely
You and Me
Walking Around Towards Greenbelt 3
Fine Specimen of a Man
What If
(In)Finite Regress
Jealous
Water
It’s How You Do
You are My Solitude
All the Chances It Takes
A Pack of Contradictions
Post-Confession
As Artists
Like Fever
Mad Things are on My Mind
Michelangelo’s David
11pm, 63 Xavierville Avenue
ixviiimmix
8pm, 5F B6 Bonifacio High Street
Things Pretending to Be Poems
In My Defense
Just Look at Me
My Heart is My Best Friend
…4…3…2…1…
Little Miss Sunshine
Mush
The Non-Fear of Falling
Envy
Zero
One Regret
Four Layers of Reality
Pray without Words
25, going on 26
It’s Happening
Every Breath I Take (Literally)
Superwoman in a Sweater
Two Girls
Different Feathers
Crossing Jordan to Jericho
Officer with the Badge
Ghetto Note
Neruda Speak
Worst Case Scenario
Paranoia
What Spells the Difference
It’s Easy to Be Happy
Love Well Done
Time is on Our Side this Time
Soul in Transit
Nothing
The Price
The Contemporary Love Affair
Friendship, Not the Cliched Version
Note to Self
Starbucks
My High School Best (Non)Friend
28th Floor West Tower Philippine Stock Exchange Center
Jimel
Emergency Exit Parachute Sisters
It’s in Our Hands
Corte de las Palmas
I Celebrate
It’s the Only Way
Standing on the Threshold of the Rest of My Life
Three Handsome Pastors
Dear Nneka
Closed
Mas Mahirap Intindhin Kesa sa Inggit
Pagbibilang ng mga Biyaya
Before the day Ends
I’m Unhappy
Job Hunt
Temptation
Pagbubuhat ng Sariling Bangko
Disclaimer
Math Graduate Studies Blue
Aris, Jemma, Jing, Iris Forever
Shep
The Die is Cast
Light Rain
Tayutay sa mga Bagay na Pansamantala
Patient Desert
Five Days Without the Sun
Pakikipaglokohan sa Sarili
Four-Minute Romance
You Will Miss Me
Hindi Lang nila Alam
Battlefield of My Emotions
Eileen May
Tungkol kay Chris
Love Running on Empty
A Venue South Triangle, QC, 4am
Sometimes Rape is Not a Figure of Speech
The Next Best Thing
Poetry by Default
I’m so in Love. And so it Goes…
Your Smile is Worth More
God is Romantic Love Too
Word
Am I Blind?
Hindi Dapat Mag-usap Kapag Parehong Sarado ang Isip
320 Hotel Sogo Cubao
Shift
Time
Leaps of Faith
Burn for Me, Baby
The Saving Grace of My Sanity
The Vicious Cycle
Sunshine
Mom Problems
I Don’t Know What to Do
To Need is a Curse
Walking in the Rain
Walking on Wilson Street
Tonight, Everything is Enough
Love Only
Baptizing the Brand-New Laptop with a Poem
Quattro, Timog Avenue, 2am
This is who I am. That is the trash can.
Tower of Lies
Opposites
Those Other Girls
Greenbelt Verses
Gamble
Faculty Room 107
Tribute to Incoherence
Tula sa Pader 2
Tula sa Pader 1
Thoughts on Valentine’s Day
Loose Words 6
Loose Words 5
Loose Words 4
Loose Words 3
Loose Words 2
Loose Words 1
Ngayong Gabi
Picnic at the Fort Open Field
Pangungulila
Isang Pangungumpisal
Had I the Beauty
To the Rock Star I Met Online
In this Life I Choose to Live
The Joy of Love is in Hurting
If I Could Have a Moment
A Rare Moment of Being Sensible
That Night
If You Knew
Forever Ago
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