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T H E  A V E N U E  P L A Z A  H O T E L
N A G A  C I T Y . P H I L I P P I N E S

Some blue, flowered morning
we’ll go sweetly hands in hands

to listen to the stories the creek murmurs
before the easy amazement of the naked stones…

Lover, we will not speak a single word:
our eyes will speak the language of magic,

and the curious breeze will come very quietly
without breaking the spell of the enchanted hour

Later…like a bunch of beautiful fresh grapes
- cut from the vine by unskilled hands -

I will leave in your mouth with a little fear
the ignored flavor of my first kisses…

Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.
My thirst, my unbounded desire, my uncertain road!

Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst follows,
and tiredness follows, and the infinite ache.

But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.
Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.

Ah those goblets of the chest! Ah those eyes of absence!
Ah the roses of the pubis! Ah your voice slow and sad!

I was alone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me
and the night enveloped me with its crushing invasion.
To survive myself I forged to you like a weapon,
like an arrow in my bow, like a stone in my sling.

Body of woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look yourself like a world in your attitude of surrender.

My rough peasant’s body digs in you
and makes the son leap from the depths of the earth.

Body of woman, white hills, white thighs
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OLE KRISTIAN OLSEN | JILL ARMIE ABIOG
CAM SUR
P H I L I P P I N E S

When the ceder branchs twist she turns her collar to the wind
The weather can close the world within it’s hands

How do you bust the clouds
Head on the ground and feeling what you’ve seen
I wanna scope you out
I wanna be your eyes and show you me

Will you say when I’m gone away
“My lover came to me and we’d lay
In rooms unfamiliar but until now”

There’s nothing I want more than to wake up on your floor
Lay with me in your thinnest dress
Fill my heart with each caress
Between your blissful kisses, whisper
“Darling, is this love?”

Can I stay here with you ’til the day breaks?
There’s something you should know: I ain’t got no place to go
Can I stay here with you ’til the day breaks?
How happy it would make me to see your face when I wake

So can I stay here with you through the nighttime?
I’ve fallen sad inside and I need a place to hide
Can I stay here with you through the nighttime?
I’m all alone and blue, won’t you take me to your room?

I’ll lay down this bottle of wine
If you’ll just be kind to me
She’s got hair that flows right down
Right down to the backs of her knees

When you kissed my lips with my mouth so full of questions
It’s my worried mind that you quiet
Place your hands on my face

Close my eyes and say
Love is a poor man’s food
Don’t prophesize
I could hold you in my arms

So now we see how it is
This fist begets the spear
Weapons of war
Symptoms of madness
Don’t let your eyes refuse to see

Don’t let your ears refuse to hear
Or you ain’t never going to shake this sense of sadness
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold on forever

Can’t you see
What you mean to me?
(even promises may bleed)

Lucky ones are we all ’til it is over
Everyone near and far
When you smile the sun it peaks through the clouds
Never die for always be around and around and around

So stay the night
And I promise that I wont bite
‘Cause without you there
I don’t think I can close my eyes

And hey, transform all others
When aweful people they surround you
Well hey, they just like monsters
They come to feed on us
Giant little animals for us

Empty stares, did you find it there..
Always by your side, knowing nothing well it’s always right
And we’ve come oh so far to gain some strength and now we’ve pulled too hard

So we take the night
If we fall then we’re done
So then take it right
This one chance we’ve got

While I’m off chasing my own dreams
Sailing around the world
Please know that I’m yours to keep
My beautiful girl

I lost all of my vanity
when I peered into the pool
I lost all of my innocence
When I fell in love with you

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Kung sa mga daang nilalakaran mo,
may puting bulaklak ang nagyukong damo
na nang dumaan ka ay biglang tumungo
tila nahihiyang tumunghay sa iyo. . .
Irog, iya’y ako!

Kung tumingala ka sa gabing payapa
at sa langit nama’y may ulilang tala
na sinasabugan ikaw sa bintana
ng kanyang malungkot na sinag ng luha
Iya’y ako, Mutya!

Kung may isang ibong tuwing takipsilim,
nilalapitan ka at titingin-tingin,
kung sa iyong silid masok na magiliw
at ika’y awitan sa gabing malalim. . .
Ako iyan, Giliw!

Kung ikaw’y magising sa dapit-umaga,
isang paruparo ang iyong nakita
na sa masetas mong didiligin sana
ang pakpak ay wasak at nanlalamig na. . .
Iya’y ako, Sinta!

Kung nagdarasal ka’t sa matang luhaan
ng Kristo’y may isang luhang nakasungaw,
kundi mo mapahid sa panghihinayang
at nalulungkot ka sa kapighatian. . .
Yao’y ako, Hirang!

Ngunit kung ibig mong makita pa ako,
akong totohanang nagmahal sa iyo;
hindi kalayuan, ikaw ay tumungo
sa lumang libinga’t doon, asahan mong. . .
magkikita tayo!

Dalawang bituing
kumikislap-kislap
sa gitna
ng dilim. . .

Tambal ng aliw
na sasayaw-sayaw
sa tuwing ako’y
naninimdim. . .
Bukang-liwayway
ng isang pagsintang
walang maliw!

Takipsilim
ng isang pusong
di magtataksil!

Ang mg̃a labi mo ay dalawang lang̃it,
Lang̃it-na di bughaw, ni lang̃it ng̃ hapis,
Labi ng̃ bulaklak na kapwa ninibig
Labing mababang̃o, sariwa’t malinis.

Labi ng̃ sampagang may pait at awa,
Tipunan ng̃ pulót, tamis at biyaya,

Sisidlang ang lama’y kabang̃uhang pawa,
Pook na tipanan ng̃ hamog at diwa.

Tagapamalita ng̃ lihim ng̃ puso,
May oo at hindi, may tutol at samo,
May buhay at palad, may tula’t pagsuyo.

Ang̃ mg̃a labi mo’y may pulót na tang̃i
Kung iyan ang aking pagkaing palagi’y
Talo ko ang lahat, talo ko ang Hari.

Kahinhina’t amo ang nanganganinag,
Kalinisa’t puri ang namamanaag,
Umaga ang laging handog mo sa palad.

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tell me and take your time
set free this soul of mine
freeze frame this sedate moment
lie me in your quiet ground

I can’t explain the feeling’s plain to me.
Now, can’t you see?
she gave me more, she gave it all to me
What’s wrong with that?
How I’d like to know
‘Cause here I go again.

Long arm looking for finger print
Trying to find a mystery clue
Giving me that third degree
Working on a thumb screw

Love and some verses you hear
say what you can’t say
love to say this in your ear,
“I’ll love you that way”
from your changing contentments,
what will you choose for to share?
someday drawing you different,
may I be weaved in your hair?

When the ceder branchs twist she turns her collar to the wind
The weather can close the world within it’s hands
There’s a bug inside the thimble theres a band aid on her thumb
And a pony in the river turning blue

let’s go out and see darling
what shines tonight
and temper your dream about the dying horse

with traffic, noise, and light
and somewhere the soft-handed boys,
bleeding hearts, and worker bees

i’ve a picture of you
on our favorite day
by the seaside
there’s a bird stealing bread
that i brought
out from under my nose

The kettle burned cause I left it too long
and we were kissing with the radio on
the cat was choking on a rattle snake bone
the town had gathered round the soldier boy carried home

The broken window and the pretty blue sky
and cold water for my swollen black eye
we shook some money from your mother’s old clothes
when all had gathered round the soldier boy carried home

Love is a dress that you made
long to hide your knees
love to say this to your face,
“I’ll love you only”

for your days and excitement,
what will you keep for to wear?
someday drawing you different,
may I be weaved in your hair?

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Only love is all maroon
Lapping lakes like leary loons
Leaving rope burns –
Reddish ruse

I’ve been twisting to the sun and the moon
I needed to replace
The fountain in the front yard is rusted out
All my love was down
In a frozen ground

All my love was down
In a frozen ground

This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization
It’s the sound of the unlocking and the lift away
Your love will be
Safe with me

I tell my love to wreck it all
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
Right in the moment this order’s tall

Who will love you?
Who will fight?
Who will fall far behind?

Who can know there’s so much life around us thins
Life from heaven smiles down on this room

Some parade of colours
Marching on music trails
Morning slips to evening
Falls through holes in between days

Won’t you whisper in my ear?
You look so good against my mirror

tell me and take your time
set free this soul of mine

freeze frame this sedate moment
lie me in your quiet ground

Morning pours the ocean deep
Into the hollow of my sleep

i understand your
tired eyes for these
tired homes and tired trees
i see the pain in those
brown eyes
fires burn in autumn skies

out of the box
down colorful hill
wind lifting tired feet
skin sensing challenge ahead

this is the first you spoke of it
in your black magic house
in a cold damp attic
two windows stare at us like eyes
behind them

i thought by now that i
figured your head out
until now i thought i
figured your body out

so please help me to understand
because i love you
more than anyone

i wonder in what fields today
you’re chasing dragonflies at play
my little lost girl
so far away

Stay with me,
My love I hope you’ll always be
Right here by my side if ever I needed you

In your arms,
I feel so safe and so secure
Everyday is such a perfect day to spend
Alone with you

Close at hand though I’m better for the smile you give
And while I live
I will follow you will you follow me

a chance for calm
a hope for freedom
outlet from my cold solitary kingdom
by the forest of our spring stay

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