Trivia

The UNUSUAL:

     Irene G. Nicolas

                            Leafy Sea Dragon, one of the 25 weirdest Animals-www.divaboo.com

                 Named after the dragons of Chinese mythology, Leafy seadragons (Phycodurus eques) resemble a piece of drifting seaweed as they float in the seaweed-filled water. The Leafy seadragon, with green, orange and gold hues along its body, is covered with leaf-like appendages, making it remarkably camouflaged. Only the fluttering of tiny fins or the moving of an independently swiveling eye, reveals its presence.

Like the seahorse, the male seadragon carries as many as 150-200 eggs. After being deposited by the female, the eggs are carried in the honeycomb-shaped area (known as the brood patch) under the male's tail for approximately eight weeks. Seadragons have no teeth or stomach and feed exclusively on mysidopsis shrimp.

LITERARY/FEATURE; INCUBUS

 Incubus

Joy Reginaldo

Minsan ako’y nangarap

kaparehang walang katapat

Inakalang ito’y nararapat

kahit baseha’y ‘di sapat

Isang gabi ‘ngako’y natulog

pakiwari ko’y nalulunod

Sa pangpang ako’y napadpad

Munting pangarap, duon natupad.

Isang lalaki, aking nakita,

Nasilayan ,ngunit ‘di namukhaan.

Inakalang s’ya na nga

hiniling ko’ng himala.

Lubos kasiyahang nadama,

‘di inasahang magbabago pa.

May trahedya pa lang nagbabadya,

Sa piling ko siya’y mawawala.

Huli na nang aking mapagtanto,

Na lahat pala ay ‘di totoo

Kaligayahang nadama ko

Sa panaginip lang nabuo.

Quotes

Love…

                 The greatest irony of love is letting go when you need to hold on and holding on when you need to let go..

                 We lose someone we love if we are destined to find someone else who can love us even more we can love ourselves.

                                          -Maleen Tose

 Little Verse for Very Little People

Leandro Alagano

I wish to be famous someday,

I rather like to stay and wait until…

Someone will come and see the beauty within me…

                                                  

                                                   - The Stone

The season is changing, while a thorn building up,

The wind is chasing, with the bliss of hatred upon us,

And a blink of water, scatter in this empty land

That will be grown and disturbed the unknown.

And alertness will gave changes to unfold..

      

      - Aging

  

A breeze of laughter and the wind of crowdedness

A smell of enjoyment with the power of sadness,

And a place where all of the pain was hidden

By there wicked, tricky twinkle smile….

            -The Circus

  -Leandro P. Alagano-