Amina Among the Angels Quotes

“We say verse is fun in the doing,
True, that’s what we’re saying.
And if our rhymes now are only limping,
why Muse, the blame stops with us,
we don’t pass it on, not on one
of our kind, certainly not to you.”
― Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels

“Our tears unshed
Are roses of stone
Inside our skulls”
― Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels

“Whatever you see, do not cry.
You will grow up, little one,
bearer of this vicious bond—

anger of your daughters,
revenge of your sons.”
― Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels

“What feet may reach against
the mind’s arrogance soaring wingless
to Alpha Centauri light years away,
daring the arctic whalepath,
piercing a bacterium’s elegant minutiae
as it swims in amniotic oblivion
in a Petri dish. Is the Universe
ruled by chance or design? Who knows?
How far is far, what measures near,
enough or not, a little or too much?”
― Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels