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Olongapo City/ Subic/ Quezon City/Alabang, Central Luzon/ NCR, Philippines
Mom. Wife. Teacher.

Saturday, November 21, 2015

YOUR LOVE

YOUR LOVE SETS ME FREE
THE ONE THAT GIVES ME CLARITY
THE ONE THAT KEEPS ME FROM CRUMBLING
THE ONE THAT GIVES ME HAPPINESS AND DELIGHT

THIS ENCHANTING FEELING
IS THE ONE THAT KEEPS ME SMILING
THE ONE THAT RESTORED MY WRECKED HEART
THE ONE THAT GIVES ME HOPE TO START

YOU ARE THE MOTIVATION
THE ONE THAT TAUGHT ME A LESSON
THE ONE THAT GAVE MY LIFE RHYTHM
THE ONE THAT GAVE ME AN INSPIRATION

I AM GRATEFUL THAT I FOUND YOU
IT HAS TAUGHT ME THAT LIFE CAN BE WITH HUE
YOU TURNED MY SKIES INTO LIGHT BLUE
ONCE AGAIN I THANK YOU

AND NOW I YEARN TO MOVE ON
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE LESSONS
THANK YOU FOR BEING MY MOTIVATION
ALL I CAN SAY IS THANK YOU, UNTIL OUR NEXT SALUTATION

VMMC

Sunday, November 15, 2015

TO WALK AWAY

I have hold on to us for far too long
Believed in us even when it was wrong
Played your voice in my head like a song
But now I need to walk away from you and be strong

Eight years you and I were
The past three years were nothing but a blur
I believed in you but the image wasn't real
For behind that man was a sharp edged teal

You hacked my chest wide open
The solid foundation we thought we had was broken
All the goodness and sweetness can now be forgotten
In the midst of sorrow I feel so rotten

It has consumed my strength to get this courage
To break this wall, to break free from my cage
A love is love, but so is hurt is hurt
To be strong is to be strong, to choose to not hurt anymore

So I release you in the wind, to be blown away from me
In the sea where the shore takes you away from me
A moth I once was lured by your flame
But I must be strong to turn back from shame

Goodbye first love, you truly were my first
At times I shall miss you, my heart will yearn
But now I am 29, I need to be my age
Without a man shall I be, but I am the real me.

VMMC
Oct 2015

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

VOICES

A silent voice murmuring, “Try once more”
But an overwhelming fear yells out, “no more”
Persuading, encouraging, “push a little more” said the voice
But discouragement argues, “you are pushing against the wall”

The voice then again said, “there is always another chance”
But disappointment screams, “it’ll happen again”
Persistently, insistently, from the voice “each day is a new beginning”
But ego and pride disputes, “It is always the same”

The voice a bit more loudly said, “I am with you”
And loneliness responded, “you are left behind”
Lovingly and tenderly, the voice said “You are not alone”
But cynicism argued, “You are on your own”

That final statement reminded me… of my real identity
Victorious I am made by my Father in Heaven
The Blood of Christ poured out for me
Among the voices, I heard clearly the Authority

To try once more, push a little more,
There is always another chance, each day is a new beginning
I am with you, You are not alone
“God is with me, on this battle, He will guide me to destiny. 


Written and created by: Valerie May M. Cruz
July 30, 2015





Beyond the Borders

At night I lie awake tossing and turning
In the day I escape to daydreaming
Wandering thoughts come away fleeting
Beyond the borders do you think of me?

In the morning, a cup of coffee, sipping, savouring
At night a cup of tea, soothing and relaxing
But my spirit is restless, marveling, travelling
Beyond the borders do I cross your mind?

The music is playing, I find myself swaying and humming
Conversations are light, I find myself talking and laughing
But I am hearing nothing, my ears reaching out a far
Beyond the borders do you do you feel my heart?

Reading, phrasing beautiful words rhyming
Writing, engraving, strings of lyrics on my page
But my mind is like a clean white leaf, blank, empty
Beyond the borders, Am I included in your list?

There you maybe, on a faraway place
Under the orange and blue sky of misty haze
Elsewhere you may be beyond the blue ocean lace
But beyond the borders and back, in my heart you have a place.


Written and Created by: Valerie May M. Cruz
July 30, 2015

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Discovering Painting

Somewhere in time before life became more serious, writing poetry and painting were my hobbies as a child. There is something about these two mediums that are so liberating, no censorship, no offense, simply art.


To quote Pablo Picasso, "every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up." Somewhere in the process of growing up, some passions need to be set aside to give way to the roles we need to perform as members of the society. In my case that is to be a law student and a professor.
Poetry allows you to express yourself through strings of words, whether it makes sense or not for others, you get to release every bit of emotions and suppressed thoughts into a lyric of words. After which it creates its own life and immortalized in its form, what was once part of you is released and there is a sense of joy that you produced something. Like a child which is a product of both your mind and soul.


Now in my late twenties I have a rekindled a love affair with painting.


I don't have a professional background other than my art history classes taken up in college but there is something in painting that I find just as liberating in poetry. You get to express yourself through colors and lines and pigments of your own choice.


Thanks to some of the greatest forefathers of Modern Painting such as Pablo Picasso and Roberto Dali, artists and people who have passion in the arts may now express their arts without any restriction and inhibition.


To quote Salvador Dali, "Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it." And this is exactly what I yearn to pursue in painting joy even in time of imperfection. The broken lines and the all pigments in painting need not be perfect but it is the whole painting the whole process that makes it beautiful.


As member of the academe, I am very grateful because as a teacher I still get to study things I want to learn about whether inside or outside the classroom.


Since it is summer time, I employ myself as my own teacher, hoping to harness in me some skills in painting. I don't intend to be a professional painter but I do want to have a re-birth as an artist, someone who has a passion for painting not because I get something from it but because it produces something in me, a wonderful thing that I get to share with the world and with the people I care about.


Below are some of my favorite humble works so far. A product of my imagination inspired by other artists of which I am trying to learn about.

THE LADY WITH THE DRINK
Red White & Gold Series

DANCING GATSBY
Red White & Gold Series

SMOKE
Red White & Gold Series

Three Flowers
Water Color Painting

Three Faces
Influenced by Picasso and Dali

THE OPERA HOUSE
Red White & Gold Series

Inspired by Picasso's Blue Nude in 1902

LADY CONTEMPLATING
Drawing using charcoal
Inspired by artworks from Etsy
Trying to apply Matisse's style in nude drawings