Rolaiza Mimi Singayao Quotes

2017 is like a pancake.
Soggy and raw in the middle,
burnt on the sides,
topped with honey."
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao
December 30, 2017

"A nation who honors its teachers shall nurture a generation who values respect to fellow men and love of country." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"Arrogance, lies and deceit will never win people over. Duterte works,cares and is straightforward with us." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao, 18 September 2017

"Federalism for is meaningful self-governance. It's not a magic tablet, not a cure-all. We need to toil hard and shape up." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"I am in a journey with my fellow countrymen under Duterte's leadership to rid our country of corruption, criminality and address the devastating consequences of the Philippines being almost a narco state." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayap, on her Open letter to European Parliament: 'You disrespected our will as a sovereign people'

"I carry with me a guilt. And unshed tears. That men in uniform died to keep my city safe."~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"I dread the coming of summer.
For its smell of gunpowder, blood, ash and decay.
And records of humiliation, betrayals, grief and folly."
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"I honor my wrinkles. They are treasure maps, witnesses and companions to battles won and lost. I wear each with love and defiance." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"I pulled out and wrung you to dry.
To lie beside the blade.
By daylight, I keep you back, my heart.
To be healer, lover and fighter."
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"In my angry desperation, I found out that gentleness balms the mind and body. And getting up to wage battles has become a dance." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"Kulay kahel. Simbolo ng taunang paghalik at pag-idlip ng mga dahon sa dibdib ng lupa. Tanda ng pag-lisan at pag-uwi sa Sinta." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"Maanyag ka labaw sa katahum sa kabuntagon." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"Marawi in my mind had spectacular rains
that thundered, rolled, caressed and choked.
It blinded, soaked, froze and thawed.
The best rains are soft, warm,
hanging on pine trees. Like fireflies.
I kept all our rains in a jar.
To peek at. To hug on. To cling to.
Allow us more rains with you."
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"May we find the courage to be steadfast against injustice.' ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao, May 17, 2018

"Message to the World: The Philippines is a sovereign nation. We deal with our fate. We are NOT anyone else's slaves." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao, October 13, 2017

"She battled to conduct the storm,
lightning and rain.
And lay spent, her feet digging
into the cold mud.
Exquisite torture and bliss."
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"She stopped on her tracts.
Uncannily knowing.
Her bones knew the ring of disaster.
She's certain of the death.
As foretold."
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"Silence is balm, friend and armored knight.
An unlettered prose, an unsung lullaby.
An unforgivable tormoil set free in sands."
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"The life of a cat is gorgeously placid despite occassional upheavals." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"The most crippling of all the brutal forces is our apathy to the ails of our nation and the hate to the one man the majority had chosen to lead this country." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao, November 29, 2017

"They seek out each other.
As adversaries with past disasters.
Facing off after a clean war.
The wolf moon smirks."
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"Today,
I meet by the door
Betrayal.
Lead it into the parlor.
Stared it down until
it turned into a dark ash.
Its malodorous presence
lingered. Like death."
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"We are a sovereign state. Filipinos are a free People. WE ARE NOT UNDER THE DICTATE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"We grace each season with our hilarious madness and colorful grief. Then, we leave unannounced." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"We need to find courage and speak against the evils in our communities. Even if they are friends, family or half of ourselves." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao, September 25, 2017

"Within us, a flower and fruit garden thrives and blooms." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"Words appear, float , glide and sit firmly. Refusing to be moved." ~Rolaiza Miami Singayao in her prosaic poetic mode, 9 January 2018

"You disrespected our will as a sovereign people." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao on her Open letter to European Parliament, March 17, 2017

"You trample on our rights and turn the re-count into a mockery. Don't say ouch when we get back at you. ReresbakKami." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao, on Leni Robredo cheating (BBM Election Protest)

~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

VERSES

FINDING OUT

Shifting through debris, 

Gains far outweighs losses.

Broken and soiled.
We all thrive.

Ever so gentle.

It is a balm.

Finding out.

~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

"I shall humbly wrap your words
around my head and chest.
To protect me from my ego.
To guard my heart
from the evil of pride.
To inspire me."
~‪Rolaiza Mimi Singayao‬

~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

MISSED IT, IN ONE MINUTE

Some days it hit so badly.
One wills the thick fog
to visit and envelope
what remains.
In tatters.
One calls out for the lashing rains
to bathe the melancholia.
In quarters.
One rolls gently
to evenly apply the warmth of earth
on sun-baked skin.
In sections.
In soiled tatters,
in shy quarters,
in dark sections.
She came and was led away.
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

RIVERS

Kept suspended between words.

She bleeds.

Kept hostaged between letters.
She grasps.

Torn and kept.
She flows.

Both in Agus River* and
in the River of Pouyade.
END

*The Agus River flows from Marawi City into Lanao del Norte. 
The New Bridge is one of the bridges heavily fought with in the Marawi siege and is almost over where the end of Lake Lanao meets the beginning of Agus River.
~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao
October 11, 2017

~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

SHE

It was in a fit
of jealousy
that She,
the world
cast
a curse
for us mortals
not to give
wholly
of ourselves.

The curse spells
that our pleasures
not be everlasting.

And "stay"
is the doomed goodbye
after a quick
toothpaste kiss.

Listen.
We don't cling
but pack our wounded
eloquence.

With flowers.

By Rolaiza Mimi Singayao
February 12, 2018
Source: FB

~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

"She sits motionless in silence
while travelers roam and become storytellers.
She sews words
and a tapestry of parallel tales and woes."
~‪Rolaiza Mimi Singayao‬,
The Witch of Jahlut - On coming back Home.

~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

WHEN I AM FREE

She said to remember:
blissful silence, exquisite longings,
pastel colors, tea;
muted courage, fierce growls,
colorful misadventures, gentle snores;
soft rains, fog, uneven earth
and long walks in the dark;
welcomed disorder, undisciplined thoughts,
hilarious humiliations,
mischievous undying love;
and the endless demands to go unannounced
and arrange her own death.

~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao


~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

ATTRIBUTED QUOTES

"I speak for the children of the world who don't even have a piece of bread. I speak for sick who don't have medicine." ~Fidel Castro, United Nations, 1979

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." ~Mark Twain

"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the NEW EVIDENCE CANNOT BE ACCEPTED. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief." ~Frantz Kanon, Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer from the French Colony of Martinique

"The world is divided into men who have wit but no religion and men who have religion and no wit." ~Ibn Sina

"Those feet are not yet steady on the ground of truth." ~Dante Alighiere, Canto III, Paradiso

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines." ~Pablo Neruda

"True strength often calls for the ability to sustain the tension without flight or fight." ~Herb Cohen

"Victory is changing the hearts of your opponents by gentleness and kindness." -An Nasir Salahuddin, Al-Ayyubi (1137-1193)

╔═════ ೋღ☃ღೋ ═════╗

THANK YOU

╚═════ ೋღ☃ღೋ ═════╝