FEATURED POETRY: A Gift in Disguise by Karla Mae Domingo

Beneath its numerous pages

Came thoughts outlined rather than scattered

To express what’s inside,

It treated other’s hearts with its words of valor

Maybe intentional, maybe coincidence

An inspiration rouses upon it

Everyone reading find it precious in their eyes,

That’s why it is called a gift in disguise.

Through myriad reading

Of words between pages;

Through endless writing

Of stories that seemed concealed for ages;

She had created her own to give to the world

Inside its words, ideas, and deep deliberations

Arouses a desire from a mind wandering,

And a hand shivering,

Creating fumbled words

Around its own vast imagination

Broad images of daylight and noon

She espies it lucidly in every corner

Craving for notions of new things to come

Provoking and lurking her

Giving a room for simple things in mind

She is a writer scribbling thoughts in her mind

Without expecting of acknowledgement,

Of the talent she hides,

Tried her best to compile the scattered ideas

Turned it into something she had always loved,

A book

Today is the day she’s been dreaming of,

To write, and share to the people

Without hesitating she brings it out

Passes to everyone, waits for a response

Without a doubt

It was the moment where illusions were not far from reality

When all that are laid were worthy

To receive appreciation she was longing

With confidence and wit once in her was hiding

Beneath numerous pages,

Comes thoughts shattered or organized

May be fiction, may be a memoir

For her, everywhere is a book to find

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