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Renato N. Mascardo
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Renato N. Mascardo

Renato N. Mascardo, 29 may 2020

Loneliness of Being One (To Will Liao)

against solitude

sunrise
sunset these mean
nothing to you who slip
in and out of awakening
alone

the pain
comes in waves but
never goes away it
stays to harry and heckle you
alone

in health
in illness and in
dying the most pain is
the thought that you are solitary
alone

yet we
who love you stand
in close proximity
we stay so you know you are not
alone//

renato
thursday 28 may 2020


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Renato N. Mascardo, 8 may 2020

remembering the missing & missing the remembered

and then there were five
and a half

those were
the days when life
was now and tomorrow
had nothing to do with the past
we were

we thought
forever the
gang of eight and a half
Jess and Jun Ray and Roy Cris and
Chito

Rudy
and Edgar with
Bobby the great one half
we all had high hopes for life was
so good

Rudy
was first to go
with a burst vessel in
his brain while asleep leaving just
seven

and a
half of the gang
next went Roy felled slowly
by a virus he denied he
had to

very
end followed now
by Edgar the kind who
was taken by Azrael the
crowned one

too soon
too soon they have
left and gone leaving five
and a half of us to wonder
who’s next//

renato
wednesday 6 may 2020


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Renato N. Mascardo, 2 may 2020

under siege

while we wait

in this
time of the crown
this deadly devouring
scourge love persists and distancing
unites

renato
saturday 02 may 2020


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Renato N. Mascardo, 26 october 2019

A Hymn to Him

rondeau en rondeau
 
round he is not my little pet
ten will he be but not just yet
I love him like an only child
but his feelings for me are mild
t'was love at first sight when we met
nine years later love has not set
it will remain lest I forget
with time's toll we are reconciled
round he is not
French is his name yet he is nyet
all day asleep and he is all set
just don't expect him to run wild
my puppy and I are just mild
being laid back he has no regret
round he is not//
 
renato
26 october 2019 11:37am PHL time   


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Renato N. Mascardo, 13 october 2019

and so it goes

muscae volitantes
 
floating
pieces of my
memories just beyond
the pale of the eyesight of my
dim mind
 
in the
morass of my
past the flotsam of what
I thought I knew flit by out of
my reach
 
still in
blind hope I wait
unwittingly for thoughts
long gone for wit long lost to me
I wait//
 
renato
13 october 2019


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Renato N. Mascardo, 22 february 2019

departures

in this empty room
 
no chats
day in day out
for days and days the room
stands still almost forlorn until
someone
 
departs
leaving the rest
still remaining to grieve
and touch before our room goes
empty//
 
renato
21 february 2019
 
for Rebecca Toledo and Liwayway Ibasco


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Renato N. Mascardo, 1 january 2019

recension

every
decision that
we make we always think
we ought to rethink not leaving
what is well enough
alone//


renato
monday 31 december 2018


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Renato N. Mascardo, 1 january 2019

heartstrings

before
poets troped the word
anatomists knew the
aortic and pulmonary
vessels

hollow
cables holding
down the fort we call
our heart//

renato
monday 31 december 2018


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Renato N. Mascardo, 19 august 2018

The Choices We Make

RSVP
 
in her
hilltop home with
seven columns wisdom
had set her table with ample
meat and
 
wine for
her invited
guests all simple sans nous
most went to the house of folly
instead//
 
renato
sunday 19 august 2018


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Renato N. Mascardo, 14 august 2018

Tongue in Cheek

remembering nitoy (b 21-08-1946)
 
if there
really is an
afterlife i am still
waiting for a postcard from you
maybe
 
you were
right after all
but in case you're wrong let
bygones be bygones my email's
unchanged//
 
renato
tuesday 14 august 2018


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Other poems: Stemming the Flow, TO A FRIEND, OF SATELLITES, TRAVELS, & FRIENDS, PARAPHRASING ADELE, Dumpster Blues, unreeling a tangled skein, if love were a multiple-choice exam, awakening, each little loss, falling leaves, partying in pestilence, in the absence of light, reparations to a bounteous mother, cinquain, seclusion, A Beautiful Day, quantum physics of feelings, lemon = lemonade, Poems on Virtues 2, Poems on Virtues 1, Loneliness of Being One (To Will Liao), remembering the missing & missing the remembered, under siege, A Hymn to Him, and so it goes, departures, recension, heartstrings, The Choices We Make, Tongue in Cheek, Elijah's Lament, exodus and le boulanger, Poem of Being, just being, alternate landing, Schroedinger's Cat, Asymmetry, lure of the dance, holy haptics, trickster time has the last laugh, carnage field, a parthian shot at an ex, lacrimae rerum, in names we trust, love is, first twilight, coywolf, katie's birthday, Sliver, Nuthatch, new day, sunny breezy day, left overs, oscine cantata, gone, backyard feeding time, payola, spring, a passerine sacrifice, cinquain, crepusculum, vegetarian festivity, esmeralda, birdseeds on the grass, bits and pieces, life of quiet desperation, After the Wane, on goings and comings, a tedious turn of a loved one's mind, just before you extend your claws, Exodus V, dwindles, lines written on her birth date, remembering, autumn, skirting isolation, missing a muse, Complexities and complications, another of life's little ironies, Image, Autumn, seasons, paradox, thumb-nail sketch, assuaging a craving, degrees of solitude, disremembering, particle physics of the heart, marking time mutually, the reason for writing, in the company of aloneness, valentine, sounds of silent ironies,

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