Farewell
Farewell, Old Year, Farewell
To past pains do not dwell
Wipe away the burning tears
Face off all doubts and fears
Move on to a brighter future
Hope is broken dream’s suture
Farewell, Old Year, Farewell
Twelve moans of Buddha’s bell
Wipe away sin that conscience sears
Deafening gongs demon hears
Move on to a brighter future
Honor’s virtue to nurture
Farewell, Old Year, Farewell
A forecast the rooster will tell
Wipe away scars of past years
Heaven’s Golden Gate nears
Move on to a brighter future
As one’s soul slowly matures
Farewell, Comrade. Farewell
A journey you’ve travelled well
Farewell… Farewell
A new goal of journey to fill.
Snow
I wish to give him a special gift~ SNOW
Something unknown I want to show
Beauty and softness for him to know
Gift’s strangeness my face did blow
A snowball I asked his hands to hold
It is just a rock to me he sadly told
It’s coldness in his large hands I fold
So he said the rock is certainly cold
Encouraged what’s a snow he can get
Squeezed the snowball soft and wet
Told me it is a hard, wet rock he felt
Asked if rock in his hands would melt
The more of snow to him I describe
The more to a rock he does subscribe
He cannot perceive the snow’s nature
Winter is not part of his own culture
Words I have of snow for him to learn
Yet his impatience is all that I did earn
Walls to break down patiently I must
If I truly wish to win his love and trust
Inspired by a lesson learned in a Language Interpreter class. Miscommunication is not only the speaker’s fault but may be of the listener’s as well. Cultures, Emotions, Knowledge level and Situational Factors have ways of hindering one’s perception and interpretation.
Patience, Trust and Love are important factors in communication.
Lilian Dipasupil Kunimasa was born January 14, 1965, in Manila Philippines. She has worked as a retired Language Instructor, interpreter, caregiver, secretary, product promotion employee, and private therapeutic masseur. Her works have been published as poems and short story anthologies in several language translations for e-magazines, monthly magazines, and books; poems for cause anthologies in a Zimbabwean newspaper; a feature article in a Philippine newspaper; and had her works posted on different poetry web and blog sites. She has been writing poems since childhood but started on Facebook only in 2014. For her, Poetry is life and life is poetry.
Lilian Kunimasa considers herself a student/teacher with the duty to learn, inspire, guide, and motivate others to contribute to changing what is seen as normal into a better world than when she steps into it. She has always considered life as an endless journey, searching for new goals, and challenges and how she can in small ways make a difference in every path she takes. She sees humanity as one family where each one must support the other and considers poets as a voice for Truth in pursuit of Equality and proper Stewardship of nature despite the hindrances of distorted information and traditions.