The Climb – 4 of 14 Love Poems from Baha-bahagdang Karupukan and Alien to Any Skin
The Climb
leaves gathering
in your hair
as we parted
those young trees
to make a path
where there was none
seeds the shape
of daggers
clinging to the fine
fabric of your skirt
wind mingling
with our breaths
that thin uncharted
mountain air
all that land
all that sky
no longer the same
lingering
December 2007
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This poem appears in Alien to Any Skin. This is poem 4 of 14 Love Poems.
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subok-salin
Ang Pag-akyat
mga dahong lumalapag
sa iyong buhok
samantalang hinahawi
natin ang mga murang puno
upang makagawa ng landas
kung saan wala
mga punlang hugis-patalim
nangungunyapit
sa pinong tela
ng iyong palda
humahalo sa ating
hininga ang manipis
na hangin ng kabundukang
wala pang nagkapagmamapa
kalawakan ng lupaing iyon
kalawakan ng langit
hindi na tulad ng dati
nanatili
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