The Lonely Boat
“What am I without you?”
The boat says to the sea.
“Bring back the tide,
make me alive.
I beseech thee.”
Bring back the tide
Let me ride your waves
Toss me to and fro
Throw me up high
Then splash me down hard into your waiting arms.
Bring back the tide,
Pull me out of the dock!
I’d rather face the peril
of being whipped
by the mighty waves of your love
Than left alone moored in the lonely sands of memory.
About M.A.D. LIGAYA
I am a teacher, writer, and lifelong learner with diverse interests in prose and poetry, education, research, language learning, and personal growth and development. My primary advocacy is the promotion of self-improvement.
Teaching, writing, and lifelong learning form the core of my passions. I taught subjects aligned with my interests in academic institutions in the Philippines and South Korea. When not engaged in academic work, I dedicate time to writing stories, poems, plays, and scholarly studies, many of which are published on my personal website (madligaya.com). I write in both English and his native language, Filipino.
Several of my research studies have been presented at international conferences and published in internationally indexed journals. My published papers can be accessed through my ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4477-3772.
Outside of teaching and writing, I enjoy reading books related to my interests, creating content for my websites and social media accounts, and engaging in self-improvement activities.
The following is a link to my complete curriculum vitae:
https://madligaya.com/__welcome/my-curriculum-vitae/
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
Posted on September 12, 2019, in Creative Writing, Poetry, Tula and tagged Creative writing, Poetry, Tula. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
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It is great.
Thank you for following my posts.
For collaborating, text me on my Email or Skype which are on my website.
Hoping you are happy there.
Best wishes
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Thanks a lot.
Collaboration? Why not! Let’s see in the future. I just need to finish certain commitments that made my plate full for a couple of months.
Of course I am happy. With people advocating what both of us are trying to advocate – positive thinking (or however we call it) – we’re suppose to define our own happiness and allow nothing to demolish our inner peace. There are just times that when our feelings get pricked by something we see (or hear), we express the emotions through prose or poetry. But as soon as we finish the piece and take off our heads the prosist’s or the poet’s hat then we can go back to our normal selves.
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