The Last Queen

by Uel Ceballos, circa 2005

Long hooked nose and masculine features.
They saw me glamorous, gave high price 
for my possessions.
Young, enchanting
charistmatic and seductive.
I ruled over the Egypt land
bearing the veins run by King Ptolemy's 
blood.
Heavy garland shimmering over me,
shrewdly with envious sovereignty.
They stripped me, I lost 
my crown and was banished from my
own land.
Caesar came then. He marched and
seized
the gift of Osiris.
I breathed in the rug until he saw me
there!
Caesar the emperor
of momentous, historical empire
was enthralled by the last Queen's
sting...
We shared a son
but fate betrayed him and stabbed him
to death.
I found myself another man.
Having myself clad in Venus gown,
I met Mark in Tarsus.
Once again
I took advantage of my irresistible charm.
Though I wasn't his only woman
because I shared him with the highness
half-blood.
This I would say, his soul was mine.
Gray and red clouds drifted in the sky.
Mark died because of me 
and my strength was badly empowered.

Here now in my golden bed I have finished a letter.
Carrying the burden of imperious history
I want to rest in undisturbed peace.
I hope Octavian, the Highness
bury me in my husband's tomb.
No matter what, he must do so the 
Last Queen's plea.
Oh please, where's the basket of figs!
I'm ready for the bites of deadly asp!

Moon in Fire

by Uel Ceballos, circa 2003

It was late in the evening I was walking,
the night was obscure and quite tingling.
Emotion was blend with the insects crooning
from the nearby bushes there were crickets sounding.

I was walking alone and no one was around.
In my hand was my guitar and I sat in the lawn.
I started to strum and the night began to hum
The wind gave a kiss and the trees
commenced to dance.

The shadows in the grasses were moving
left and right.
The mystic moon above showered the
night a beaming light.
I was amazed when I looked to the sky
because encircled by the stars above was a
a moon in ardent fire.

The night wind blew and I shivered
It made me sad, it was you I remembered.
In this night so bright we were walking together
with our hands entwined in that cold
night of September.

Though I knew that we were now afar
Somehow I thought that you were wishing
on the same star
As I prayed in the meadow while the
scarlet started to bloom
I stood upright and watched the blazing moon.

Duped by Fate: The End of Dissimulation

by: Uel Ceballos

Woman:

I Love You...

Emotionally moved by your constant presence

Clasped in the arms of compassionate solicitude

I rested there in fetal curve, in my new orb with you

Man:

This is goodbye now forevermore...

For I have lost myself again in the sea of deception

Forgive me for pulling you down in my doomed world

Just when I thought you could light up my world,

I have darkened yours.

Woman:

You tugged me out from the entangled web of doom

From what seemingly an inescapable derangement

Hand entwined, we hurried on our way out

From the intricate spun of paths that we were both caught into

Man:

We were both the darkness searching for the light

How blind was I to not see? What have I done?

You were strong as the stag but your heart was like the sand

Pristine and granting, but weak to the cruel ocean.

Woman:

A dose of sweet escape anesthetized us from the searing sorrow

Our analgesic to the scorching ache of our detrimental past

You were my asylum, as well as I was yours

We created an estranged world, a refuge for us alone

Man:

Have you not seen that I was the merciless salt on your wound?

I wasn't the cure but I was the catalyst on your slow death

Yes you were my sanctuary, but I was your hell

In your world I spread horrors

I wasn't worthy to be your man at all

Woman:

Until in one of those twilight you unburden the hidden truth

You plunged deeply into my heart the dagger of veracity

I was just an ephemeral deliverance from your concrete existence

But never would I be your lifetime reality

Man:

For I was eternally jailed to the terror of my past

To which you were never a part

How could I take you for granted when all you needed was to be loved?

But if you were on my shoes would you rather walk the path?

Woman:

I have fallen once again in the delicate mesh of deception

Man:

Fate was ever so cruel to me

I was forever the subject for its insanity

Woman:

For how could a fallacy finds a room where everything seemed so good and true?

Man:

Not until your departure that it was revealed to me;

The life indeed was full of ferocity

Woman:

For you I was just a sweet illusion, but for this I couldn't go on

Man:

What took so long the light in you?

When I finally saw it

Woman:

This is goodbye now, forevermore...

Man:

It was out of my grasp anymore

I love you...

Duped by Fate

(A reply to the poem 'Dissimulation')

by: Uel Ceballos

This is goodbye now forevermore...

For I have lost myself again in the sea of deception

Forgive me for pulling you down in my doomed world

Just when I thought you could light up my world,

I have darkened yours.

We were both the darkness searching for the light

How blind was I to not see? What have I done?

You were strong as the stag but your heart was like the sand

Pristine and granting, but weak to the cruel ocean.

Have you not seen that I was the merciless salt on your wound?

I wasn’t the cure but I was the catalyst on your slow death

Yes you were my sanctuary, but I was your hell

In your world I spread horrors

I wasn’t worthy to be your man at all

For I was eternally jailed to the terror of my past

To which you were never a part

How could I take you for granted when all you needed was to be loved?

But if you were on my shoes would you rather walk the path?

Fate was ever so cruel to me

I was forever the subject for its insanity

Not until your departure that it was revealed to me;

The life indeed was full of ferocity

What took so long the light in you?

When I finally saw it

It was out of my grasp anymore

I love you...

Dissimulation

by: Uel Ceballos

I Love You...

Emotionally moved by your constant presence

Clasped in the arms of compassionate solicitude

I rested there in fetal curve, in my new orb with you

You tugged me out from the entangled web of doom

From what seemingly an inescapable derangement

Hand entwined, we hurried on our way out

From the intricate spun of paths that we were both caught into

A dose of sweet escape anesthetized us from the searing sorrow

Our analgesic to the scorching ache of our detrimental past

You were my asylum, as well as I was yours

We created an estranged world, a refuge for us alone

Until in one of those twilight you unburden the hidden truth

You plunged deeply into my heart the dagger of veracity

I was just an ephemeral deliverance from your concrete existence

But never would I be your lifetime reality

I have fallen once again in the delicate mesh of deception

For how could a fallacy finds a room where everything seemed so good and true?

For you I was just a sweet illusion, but for this I couldn't go on

This is goodbye now, forevermore...

Nothingness

by: Uel Ceballos

For here I am

At the mercy of my own conscience

That while I behold the glorious vastness

Of the sky

I hearkened sincere and true to the

Whispers of my soul

But those I cannot comprehend,

Not with my human senses

For how can a mortal understands

A soul without a spiritual guidance

So I just let my mind adrift in

Nothingness

And look beyond the clouds

As far as my sight can get

I know I’m not a hopeless case

That’s what I think so at the least

For here I am

Battling against my own self

Casting away any pieces of guilt

That brings no help to make

Me feel at ease

For how can I go on with life

If I’m too powerless to forgive myself

I’m all too beaten to my own account

It’s me indeed who put myself

To such wreck

So I look up in the sea of white and blue

Hoping to find the answers

To end all my woes

I know I’m not a hopeless case

If that would serve at least

To grant me any solace

Hallucination of the perplexed mind

In black and white they protest in unison

They carry no banner, they carry not a thing

All I see are their lips that mouth some words I cannot read

Their hands are raised up in the air in clenched fist

They seemed to be foolish; mad while they are marching towards me.

Thundering breaks into my senses

Shattering my world into splintering pieces

The terror of their voices cutting through my flesh

Pronouncing me guilty of the same sins they also committed

Are their roaring just parts of my nightmare?

Wake me up! The howling steals me out of my wits!

This place stinks of the capital sins

A hellish balm that enters my nasal passage hall

With infernal smell that sets my mind to spin adrift

I catch the mixed scents of those souls swarming in my vision

Sweet lavender fragrance that blends awfully with the stinks of rotten corpses

Moreno Ballerino

by: Uel Ceballos

In the silence of the windy darkness

He stood there atop the reddish-brown cliff

Arms outstretched with his face tilted up to the heaven

His hair was the waves of raven that shone through the night’s luminance

His countenance was the exquisite onyx, veined by the lovely moonbeams

He was an upright figure, few inches away from the edge of the bank

His arms spread in horizon as he lifted himself on tiptoe

And pushed his magnificent chest upward to the velour skies

Like a Greek God who bathed himself of soft rays from above

He stood there upon the green carpet; his silhouette was sharp against the moonlight

His face was sweet as honeydew, such nobleness it was

With magnetic set of eyes that reflected the unfathomed blackness of the galaxy

His nose towered like a proud fortress

And his cheeks were pairs of cinnamon uphill

His sensuous lips were perfect mosaic of ripened berries where sugar flowed so graciously

Bare-naked was he, down to the fair robustness of his waist,

His navel was the centerpiece to the breathtaking Pacific

As he lunged on one foot and laid back in a rapid shift of weight

His brawny shoulder magnified through the night

As the sturdy formations of grand valleys and smooth rocks

Then he stood tall and in the rhythm of gushing wind

He made a graceful whirl on one leg

While the other limb was lifted backward, the stalwart knee was in a beautiful bend

He swayed in the air like a bronze feather cutting softly through the dense of mist

Then he glided backward and turned away from the edge of the deadly cliff

In a lovely twirl, he leapt to the air with one leg straight to front

The other was extended backward stretching up to the marvelous clouds

He was the eminent prince among the herd of stags

Thundering in a grandeur spring across the sparkling meadow

His hair was the glimmering crown of antlers; his face was the majestic flamingo moon

He wheeled down in fluid motion, touching the earth on his supple legs

In his arms were formed the splendid trails along the muscular mountains

His hands lengthened up with firm force, reaching out to the stars

His body glistened beautifully in the fingers of moonlights,

He glided and twirled as if there was no morrow, breathing the air of the dark

‘Til he lied down on his back with arms spread wide, he waited for the morning light

Wish it was the game

(by: Uel Ceballos)

A child runs forever inside of us

No matter how we aged by the years that expired

We just couldn’t let go of the playful soul

Eyes always sparkle at every mystery to explore

We would always love to stomp on muddy pool

Reveling on the sticky earth that bathed our boots

We grabbed the mud by hands shaping it into balls

We brought our hands to our faces

We had almost eaten the soil

We ran to the stretch of lands wild and free

We jumped high to the air in a sprite spree

We rolled in the meadow and got covered in dusty grasses

We played hide and seek – loved to hide and fancied to be sought after

We danced in the rain with mouth wide open

Catching drops of hopes

We ran in full spirits ‘til we dropped dead panting like dogs

In our grown up years

The child within us still exists

Our magnetism to dirt would never cease

Still covered ourselves with earthly stains

The agitation to explore would fire up even more

We consumed our time in various paces

Sometimes gradual, but often in haste

Our hairs disheveled badly while we tasted drip sweats

Some instances would give us scratches and even mild bruises

High-spirited we rolled in enthrallment of exceeding ecstasy

We danced in perfect impromptu movements

To the beat we swayed with the compelling rhythm

Until we burst out in exploding joy

‘til we lied down catching our breath

We panted really hard like mad dogs

Such a moment of incomparable exaltation

Only bore us scars that never heal

That upon the star every night I say

That of all the fun we did

Wish it was the game we never played.