I walk along the way
like a zilch under a fig tree
there is a moment of clarity
as I hatch the eggs
of sundry loose ends
II
I talk once and maybe more
out of the machines
running wild inside
my remaining veins
III
how can I be smaller
when I drive to Sin City
how can I be a deadbolt
when I share stories of inflamed hearts
how can I be a grinch
when I utter the rots and clots
of my angry throat
how can I be a hermit
when I see all like squares
how can I be a scarce
when I fill scars and farts
to others' empty bottles
IV
how much numbers can tell
if I have no one
but my beautiful self.
© Ceri Naz
June 2013
Source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/filipina-poet-recognized-abroad-222445019.html
Caroline Nazareno, Ceri Naz to her friends and followers, is a poet, journalist, public speaker, linguist and educator. She was invited as a featured poet at Vancouver Word On The Street and World Poetry Canada and International. She was likewise an active participant in Poetry Reading at World Poetry Night Out New Westminster, in British Columbia, Canada. World Poetry Canada and International (WPCI) honored Ceri Naz with the "Certificate of Appreciation for the International Peace Festival 2011".WCPI was founded by Ariadne Sawyer, a distinguished published poet and author whose advocacy of promoting world peace through poetry has fostered brotherhood among peoples of all colors, creeds, and races. In the same year, Poetry Around The Globe, an organization headed by Lucia Gorea, Ph.D., an award-winning poet, widely published writer, literary translator and English/ESL professor, presented Ceri Naz with the "Certificate of Outstanding Achievement in Poetry" as a World Poet. World Poetry Canada and International Peace Festival 2013, a prestigious gathering of poets from across all continents, adjudged her "World Poetry Empowered Poet 2013". On 2012, her stirring poem, "where peace can be", was published at the New York-based blogsite of well-known poet, Romeo Dela Valle, and on March 2013 the same poem saw print on World Poetry E-Anthology. Her poem, "pandora escapes unto my hands", so impressed Haris Adhikari, editor of Misty Mountain Review, an e-magazine based in Nepal, that the latter featured it on May 2012. Another poem, "the song my heart sings", invited the attention of the publisher of KIRAZ HABERTRAK Magazine, the cultural oasis of elite Turkish poets, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and art lovers, and published it on its July 2011 issue.