Better Kilig
for Rosema
my friends in Tagalog
tell me that kilig means
tingling anticipation
right before sensation
and then the sensation,
too
a good word revealing
prospects of all kinds
of pleasure
God invented this, you
know—and if thinking
about God and pleasure
seems out of sorts to
you,
then let’s re-think
pleasure
Rosema is A Reading Writer,
May 27, 2016 at 2:30 am
Fabulous poem!!! Yes, God invented all the good stuff–it was satan who besmirched everything.
May 28, 2016 at 4:33 pm
It’s fiction, but Screwtape admits (in C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters) that, for all its efforts, hell has not been able to create a single pleasure. Only twist the ones the Enemy (God, that is) did make. Thank you!
May 27, 2016 at 11:51 am
Indeed!
May 28, 2016 at 4:33 pm
Yep! And thanks for the affirmation.
May 30, 2016 at 8:09 am
ha! so looooooove the way you made a poem, a meaningful one I must say, out of the word *kilig*! This gave me a lot of *kilig*, Christopher. 😉
May 30, 2016 at 3:17 pm
I’m glad I got it right. Relieved. As for your feeling it, that’s even better!
May 31, 2016 at 8:41 am
Yay! You really got it so right! 😀 Thank you!
May 31, 2016 at 3:01 pm
(I have a nice cat-emoji to send you, though I haven’t worked out how!)