Super Typhoon

A few days of warm respite

From a sweet Katherine’s spite

Tonight awaits a King’s roar

Don’t pee so much on my floor

Overgiver

Charity by giving one’s extra is the way

Giving all, there’s a tribulation to pay

Mom’s punishments for me by the bay

Yet I understood not, come what may

Pains, both physical and emotional

Is my generosity nothing special?

I was just following the winds of her sail

Yet, her whips created me a coat of mail

But my daughter learned from my pains

Saw the cruelty of people out for gains

The foolishness of my weak temperament

Learned to distinguish with discernment

Unconditional love, unconditional giver?

Should one weigh the need of a receiver?

But even the Messiah refuses some requests

To be a wise giver, I often fail the test

Though I may be too trusting, blackened burn

Still there would be others giving back in return

From friends and strangers, a hundredfold turn

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.