Armineonila M.'s Blog, page 5
April 29, 2015
Featured poem: Rare Occurrences
“RARE OCCURRENCES” BY NABEEL PHILIP MOHAN. MIGRANT WRITES, Q8 BOOKS, MAR. 14, 2015. Read more here.Tagged: cross-cultural, Kuwait, literature, Migrant Writers, migration literature, Pluma Literary Migrants Guild, pluma migrant writers guild, poem, poet, poetry, poetry reading, society
April 26, 2015
Death march
walking down
the aisle
i whimper
condolences to kins
whose bodies
deep in bloodbath
cast me empty
gazes
i pressed
coded ear and
ringed nose on
rancid air to
try to
sniff out
final wistful
words ambient
about today
it seemed
i was bestowed
crimeless verdict
the guillotine
weighed flat
on my shoulders
on my back
on my sirloin
on my chuck
on my thick rib
on my shin
on my fore rib
on my clod
on my brisket
on my rumb
on and on
i tread
on foot
rattling metal
while fatal
macabre faces
welcome
sober...
February 15, 2015
Box in a cat
***Note: I do not own this image. Credits to the photographer and the model.
Tagged: Arts, cat, literature, poetry, satire
February 11, 2015
Mga sangkap ng langis
Mga sangkap ng langis
ni Armineonila M.
Mga sahog sa pagluto:
Isang ginagad na diploma
Walong sakong ari-arian
Pitong tasang tinimping luha
Tatlong basong pangarap (dinikdik)
Limang pirasong dignidad (tinadtad)
Sampung kilong pawis (sinala)
Isang kurot ng pagkutya
Mga hakbang sa paggawa:
Tunawin ang galon-galong
kaluluwang nagsakripisyo
para sa pamilya’t bayan,
kaluluwang ikinahon
ng globalisasyon
at nanlilisik na pangil
ng kapitalismo
sa kawaling disyerto;
Tustahin ang dating musmos
na hele ng Nanay at Tatay
na...
January 25, 2015
Pluma’s chapbook available online
Pluma would like to reach out to readers across the globe and share with them this wonderful undertakingofmaking ends meet. After a long wait, Pluma’s first collection of poems, No Return Address,is finally out in the global market and ready to informpeople from all walks of life ofthe shared experiences of migrants in their journeys.
No Return Addressis a fine way toinitiatea dialogue whereinpeople of different cultural orientations may one day find a common ground.
Grab a copy of No Return Ad...
December 21, 2014
Pluma’s “No Return Address: A collection of poems”
No Return Address: A collection of poems is a chapbook featuring epistolary poems in English written by Pluma Migrant Writers Guild.
The book pulls back the curtain on contemporary migration issues in the Gulf, particularly in Kuwait, digging into the hopes and dreams of migrants through traditional and modern correspondence. It features poems by budding writers namely Nabeel Philip Mohan, GAP Gutierrez, Wilfred Waters, Alliah “Lenzkie” Tabaya, Mujel Hasan, Tammy Sulit, and Armineonila M.
The c...
July 7, 2014
The Map Maker’s Border by Wilfred Waters
The Map Maker’s Border isa poem written by Pluma writer, Wilfred Waters. Wil was raised in Australia and currently resides in Kuwait. The Map Maker’s Border is the poem he read during the poetry reading session of Mapping Meetup, a joint event discussingcrowdmaps of domestic help abuse in the Middle East created by Ushahidi and organised by two Kuwait-based groups, Pluma Literary Migrants Guild and Kuwait Mapping Meetup (currently Human Rights Mapping Meetup) at TIES Centre on May 2014. Read...
“Literature as a Language for Migrants” – Migrant-Rights.org’s interview with Pluma Literary Migrants Guild
Migrant-Rights.org interviews Kuwait-based literary group Pluma Literary Migrants Guild.
“Less than a year old, Kuwait-basedPlumais a literary migrant guild focused on migrant narratives. The group endeavors to bridge the citizen-migrant divide by encouraging informed discourse on migration literature and by creating a space for migrants to co-identify with shared experiences. In the following interview, we spoke with group members about their strategies and aspirations for this novel initiati...
