KOPI BREAK ORDER #020 — Czander Tan: “Manila Skyline”
Now… they resolved to go back to their own land; because the years have a kind of emptiness when we spend too many of them on a foreign shore. But… if we do return, we find that the native air has lost its invigorating quality, and that life has shifted its reality to the spot where we have deemed ourselves only temporary residents. Thus, between
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An insight into Gabriela Mistral
I just read one of Gabriela Mistral's poems called "The Flower of Air" and identified myself on a very personal level with it. In "The Flower of the Air," Mistral takes us by the hand so that we can experience her self-acceptance process. It is one of the most introspective poems in the book. After reading it, I
... See moreI don’t dream of the louvre though
I dream of yellow lighting, music playing, smells of dinner and hearts around the table
I don’t remember much from my childhood in that cold land
Other than the fact I never actually felt cold
There was always warmth in our home
Until there wasn’t
Ironic moving somewhere warmer but then we couldn’t handle the heat
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A line I’ve included in another post w other writing but I thought it deserved its own. 🤔 where 2 find home...
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instagram.com“Reconciliation” by Jónína Kirton:
“how will I reconcile myself?
the Icelander and the métis
the settler and the
Indigenous
an ally to myself
since birth flung across a
chasm
I often wonder am I to
forever be
the way across
weak anchors at each end
my spine a flexible deck
load-bearing
and within my cables too
much tension
as some try to cross
we all swing wildly
in