Maps of Dreams and Memories - poetry by Eunice Barbara C. Novio

BRUSSELS - Sept. 25, 2015 - PRLog -- Eunice is a teacher, a journalist, a crafter of words, scenes, moods, and startling observations of the depths of feeling and being that we would otherwise dismiss and take for granted, wrapped as they usually are in the mundane."

~Ramil Digal Gulle, Filipino Award-Winning Poet/Journalist

Presently, Eunice is an English Lecturer at Vongchavalitkul University in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. She lives there with her husband Josemari Cordova and her children Karina Thyra and Kairos Luther. Her eldest son, Karl Malcolm, is presently in the Philippines finishing his university degree.

Dedication:

To Caroline Nazareno and Ramil Digal Gulle, for inspiring me to write poetry.

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The Children and the Sea
The children loved the sea,
Once upon a time in their homeland
Their footprints on the sand
As they built castles on the shore,
Hoping they would last long
Like their innocence.

The sea did not care,
And washed away the castles
Built by little hands,
With so much joy and hope.

The sea is calm now
Hopes and dreams fade
No more sandcastles
No more innocent li’l hands
Because the sea
Washed them ashore.

The sea is calm now,
No more little footprints
on the sand.

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A Stranger on the Beach

My feet felt the sand once again,
Kissed by the sea as I frolicked.
I felt the heat from the shore,
temporarily brought me back home,
to the blue sea of my childhood,
where my children practiced their steps
as we guided them to walk.

But this is not the sea of my childhood
or a part of my life.
I was just a passing stranger who left imprints on the sand.

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