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Archipelagic Apollo's avatar

Twenty-seven years

Ruler with an iron fist

Ruled as he saw fit

Sixty-five degrees

Cold for the Philippines

Under nose, a fire

Day of reckoning

February revolution

1986

1986

EDSA Revolution

Victory for truth

1986

Glory on a month of rain

Freedom in the air

Long-time rain-shackles

Democracy thereafter

Two scores hence, a backsliding

2022

The Philippines ran backwards

1986

It’s “winter” again

Dictator’s son as ruler

Amnesia, his goal

Smell the petrichor

A rainy September day

History books changed

Slogans to unfreeze

Our petrified history

Back in streets, we rage

(Inspired by recent and historical political events in the Philippines. It does rain in February. Usually colder as well for the tropical standard. My best jab at the prompt, hope it isn’t cringeworthy, lol.)

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A few years ago I also added attention to the cycles of the moon more deeply

Today we have a new moon in the sky

The moon is a good phase for planting seeds with your hands steady, your feet calm on the ground, and as my sweet grandmother used to say, "put a little piece of the meat from your heart in there."

We are never alone

Sometimes we need many moon cycles for the seeds to germinate abundantly.

With each new moon reaffirming the desires, the seeds, planting what will be good food for us

When we pay attention to the cycles, they start to make more sense

It's good that at this point in life we can look at them

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