.Alektorophobia is the fear of chickens-I got a cousin who gets all sweaty when within close distance to free-ranging hens when within close distance to free-ranging hens.

Biblophobia is the fear of books- imagine if everyone else in my school had this type of fear, i would have come up tops easily.

Bromidrosiphobia is the fear of body odour- I subscribe to this fear.

Gymnophobia is the fear of being naked- Imagine having a wife whose got this, you might as well go celibate!

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a wind of change within a heartbeat's thrum
will alter quite, if not destroy, a world
with unexpected loss in life's calm rhythm
into a dark abyss one can be hurled

a wind of change can also fairly flow
preparing us for life we know to come
allowing small acceptance-seeds to grow
declining in our turn, each one-by-one

but as those life-defining moments chime
some leaving gently, others all aflame
though winds of change are blowing all the time
all manages to somehow stay the same

TIGER’S HELL

A tiger has me in his teeth
sunken in my spine so deep
my world is his ,his is mine.
where he goes I go
places I don’t know
and never been
broken bones , torn skin.
no use to cry, no sense to yell
no one leaves tiger’s hell
his sleep is my peace
his death ,my release

The Path

by Noel Ikan Astillero, TSP/Vidya Lodge

09 June 2012, Manila

I was taught that a Path exists,

But to travel it, one has to read;

Volumes upon volumes of Theosophic lit,

They fill my Mind -

But after all: "Where is the Path?"

The Path is found, not in books,

But in Life.

The books suggest -

A truth one never knows exist

Until at last, Life tests it on the ground;

Then a lesson is learned

As one treads the ground.

It is not the number of books,

They say;