Sunday, September 20, 2020

HARVEST

 HARVEST


Spring-Summer Eternity

Starfruits, Kiwis, Very Berries, Guavas, Passionfruits, Ginger Roots / All in my Coconut Milk Drinks at the Café / Pizzas, Dried Seaweed Snacks, Ice Teas, Vanilla (or Chocolate) Ice Cream / At the Licorice Suburban Corner Store / Façade grey metal chairs and tables / A view of Williams Road (and Number Three Road) / Vietnamese and Japanese eateries / All my favourite haunts on Lulu Isle / Far, faraway, eternal Bougainvilleas, Hibiscuses, and Baobabs

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-24)


Native Man

Wizard of Oz / Grey Canuck Duck / Handwoven baskets / Sacred rock formations / Serendipitous titillations / Native relative / Nature informative / Ceramic jugs / Exquisite rugs

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-24)


Bingkéng

“Bingkéng” ang gustó niyáng tawag sa akin. / May barkadang panáy ang damó. / Sa usok ang damdamin. / Pinóy lahát tayo; alám mo? / Mas gustó ko ang pagkain.

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-24)


Kokosujoj al Abioj

Kokosujoj laŭ la strand’ / Al glaŭkaj abioj laŭ la strat’ / Bananoj al pomoj / Tropiklando al neĝolando / La Senŝanĝanta Maro

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-23)


Cadillacs and Miata

Others’ bodies like Cadillacs / Mine like a Miata / Colourful jackets on racks / Gnawing on a ciabatta / Bratwursts in sacks

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-23)


Vraka Strando

ĉe la Vraka Strand’ / vestaĵ-laŭvola ludant’: / indianeske

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-11)


Gazebo and Swing

Near the faraway jungle houses / was a quaint jungle gazebo / where there had crept a jungle snake. / A cozy canopy glider swing / was in the flipping garden. / Beyond were gratiles berries clinging. / Not at all was the family compound barren.

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-09)


Balloon Vines

Creeping balloon vines / outside urban apartment: / Yeah Filipiña!

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-09)


Temples and Josses

Stubborn urusai crowds / Blue sky and white clouds / Joss sticks in front of Josses / Chopsticks in a rice bowl of Pork Chops / Flips in an inflatable kiddie pool / “You want to join us?” says the school / A crowd of teens with 1970’s hairdos / In a corner store of clerks not just Hindus / A walk to the green grove temples / Down south on Number Three Road / Iced Apple Green Tea with Bubbles / Phonograms with Logograms like cryptic code / At night, the wondrous full moon showed

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-09)


One Head-shaven, One Black-haired

One Head-shaven, One Black-haired / Big bulging white man / Looks part-Amerind / Fancies an Eastern lady / Drives a green car shared / Another one handsome / Reminiscent of tamarind / Both seeing a wild shaman / Under massive trees shady

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-08)


Blond and Squid

In Stockholm and Helsinki / Looking for hairy blond men / Grey ice cream squid-inky / Isla Lulu Tagalog practice, amen

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-08)


Red Savannah

big red savannah / around the Spanish mansion: / whirlwind near a cliff

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-05)


Chlorine

Labyrinth and like Amerind / Sushi rolls not so choosy / Swimming pool and jacuzzi / Plasticky chlorine smells / Saunas and mighty bells

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-05)


Silly Rabbits

Hi, silly rabbits! / You have white, brown, and black fur / on your fat bodies.

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-04)


A Crow Flies

a crow flies towards / yonder coniferous tree: / unraining grey skies

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-04)


Blue Rose Garden

big blue rose garden / around the Spanish mansion: / smell of new bark mulch

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-04)


Red, Orange, Yellow

Red, Orange, Yellow / Summer Thai temple days mellow / Sweet Duck on East Hastings Street Menus / Philosophical nighttime venues / After speculative fiction movies / Born in the time of being groovy / We the Japanesque marshmallows

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-03)


Lychee in Syrup on Ice

Lychee in Syrup on Ice / Not everyone in East Van eats rice/ Back in Tōkyō are Rāmen-Ya / Offices like temples of Maya / Isla Lulu platter-sized hamburgers / Kitsilano condo boiled cauliflowers

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-03)


Childhood Number 5

Illuminares Lantern Festival / Trout Lake and snowcapped mountains / Vintage books and clothes / East Van character homes / Where people are not drones / Cafés and chow mein are a carnival / Esperanto meetings no rival / Downtown and Gastown excursions / Holistic Europe-Asia confusions

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-03)


Swedish Furniture and Hot Chocolate

Never had Rose Hip Soup / Tasted an IKEA Almond Cake / Sitting at the handsome dock / Faraway Lake Sammamish gawk / Coconut Milk Hot Chocolate Grande / Lulu Island Flatlander break / Every day like a Chinese Donut Tuesday

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-03)


Cooked Bamboo Shoots

Cooked Bamboo Shoots / A Korean Picasso / Forever green Esperanto / Never been to Toronto / A tree with contorted roots / A fine marbled teraso / Vietnamese calligraphy / Imaginary geography / A basket of fruits

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-02)


Mugicha and Pizza

Cold Mugicha (or Barley Tea) / And Pizza Slice (or Mini Pan Pizza) / At the corner convenience store / In the Pandemic Genie Folklore / Flashbacks of Harajuku (and Ginza) / Now back here in the Big North / Glee and Sorrow gushing forth

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-01)


Black Tea Latte

Black Tea Latte / With Coconut Milk / From the corner Café / My tuque not of Silk / A walk in the green grove / Where crows and seagulls rove / A venerable verdant temple / Life not being so simple / A stray newspaper with a ripple

—Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-05-31)

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Ne Malvarma

Mia Esperanto ne estas malvarma laŭ mi.

Judismo kaj Esperanto

Mi iomete studas pri la kulturo juda kaj lingvoj judaj kiel pri la hebrea, la jida, kaj la judhispana, sed mi supozas, ke ĉar Esperanto kreiĝis de la judo doktoro Zamenhof, do Esperanto povus esti juda lingvo.

Friday, September 18, 2020

Via Propra Lumo

"Ne rigardu alian. Estu via propra lumo."

 ~Jiddu Krishnamurti, Saanen 1974

Thursday, September 17, 2020