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ALBERT B. CASUGA, a Philippine-born writer, lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, where he continues to write poetry, fiction, and criticism after his retirement from teaching and serving as an elected member of his region's school board. He was nominated to the Mississauga Arts Council Literary Awards in 2007. A graduate of the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Thomas (now University of Santo Tomas, Manila. Literature and English, magna cum laude), he taught English and Literature (Criticism, Theory, and Creative Writing) at the Philippines' De La Salle University and San Beda College. He has authored books of poetry, short stories, literary theory and criticism. He has won awards for his works in Canada, the U.S.A., and the Philippines. His latest work, A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems was published February 2009 by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. His fiction and poetry were published by online literary journals Asia Writes and Coastal Poems recently. He was a Fellow at the 1972 Silliman University Writers Workshop, Philippines. As a journalist, he worked with the United Press International and wrote an art column for the defunct Philippines Herald.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

WHERE LOVE IS



 
 
TODAY'S POEM: "You must find that place within yourself where nothing is impossible," Deepak Chopra prescribes a way to bliss. Where is that place? With Fear and Trembling all over the Earth, can the MInd rest easy? If the Mind is afraid, can the heart be far behind? If LOVE is that place, where might we find it? That would be our Paradise Regained.


WHERE LOVE IS


(For all Lovers)

...Beyond longing, beyond desire, we will all/ wake up to where we are not. Where love is.---A Lambent Thing Beyond


We will get there, but will wonder:
Why are we here at all where nothing
Closes, where doors are entrances
Into endless corridors of laughter
Echoing through chambers of songs
That recall gentle lullabies, rhythm
Of caresses, warmth of her embrace,
The tug of home at last? We are here,
Where love is, a place we lost when
We could no longer remember where
We started so we could come home.
We left only to know we will return.


---Albert B. Casuga




 

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