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Angel

In a roomful
Of faces
Your glimmer
Surrounded
The air
Soothing
The suffering
Being
Looked after


I wish
You’d find me
There
Begging
To be
Carried
On a wing
And a prayer

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Fool

A fool I am
Watching
Waiting
For the shining smile
That bridges
My heart to yours
I am a fool
Lost
Blinded
By previous thoughts
Hands
Ice cold without you
To hold and love
Sad
The path I once tread easily
Is now history
A labyrinth
That stretches
Far
And wide
Divided
To keep you away
I am a fool
Astray
In shades
Of gray

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Both poems by
“Kooky” Carren Cecillia M. Tuason

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A couple of months ago, I bought a CD from Tower Records called Romancing Venus. Last Saturday, RX 93.1 was promoting the album and it’s upcoming volume two. Produced by Kooky Tuason – poet and author of the songs featured in the CD, the album’s proceeds aim to benefit the Women’s Crisis Center (the organization helps women who has undergone sexual abuse, domestic beating, emotional torture etc.).

The artists featured include Barbie Almalbis (Barbie’s Cradle), Seven Shots, Hanna Romawac (Session Road), Maegan Aguilar, Iza Calzado, Angel Aquino, Chinggay Andrada, KC Concepcion, Cindy Kurleto, Wawi Navarroza (The Late Isabel) and more.

I loved the music, it was soothing and relaxing, a blend of chillout and grunge-industrial, some tracks sound close to the music of The Late Isabel. Some tracks were short and faded out in under 2 minutes but all the songs had a nice groove in them.

The album was really about showcasing Kooky Tuason’s poetry. She even bravely wrote about her own child abuse experience on track 20: Red Riding Hood. Romancing Venus Volume 2 is coming out and promises more poems and personalities to be featured like Sen. Loren Legarda, Dra. Margie Holmes and more. I’ve posted above two of the poems in the album that I’m able to relate to several instances in The Insomniac’s life.

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The album and Kooky’s website can be found at http://www.venusinorbit.com/
The album's producers are also working with UN’s RockEd Philippines project. To all who wishes to volunteer and help the country through education please visit http://www.rockedphilippines.org/ .

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