Tag Archive | Personal

Happy New Year from RJMarmol.com!

Happy New Year Everyone! Wishing you all a prosperous 2012! Click to view Happy New Year card. **Warning: Explicit content.

OT: Of Course I Do [ProsePoetry]

OT: Of Course I Do [ProsePoetry]

Of Course I Do (an original prose poem by RJ Marmol) Of course I do. After all, there’s hardly a reason for me not to: Not a worthy excuse Nor a willing whine. No remorse, no recourse No drawing the line. Not a space separates Not a thought escapes Not a chance passed Not a [...]

The Politics of School Bullying (An Open Letter to the School Head/Parents)

To:    XX XX XX Thru: XX XX XX From: Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera-Marmol Parent XX XX Re: Request for dialog with XX’s parents August 5, 2010 Dear XX XX, Greetings! Forgive me for opting to skip the usual niceties and allow me to go straight to discussing my concerns that compelled me to write this [...]

Who Needs a Birthday Wish?

Last year, it was “A Thank You Note on My Birthday”. This year, it’s a pledge. Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography Who Needs a Birthday Wish? (a birthday poem by RJ, April 8, 2010) When 230,000 people died in Haiti And when hundreds more died in Chile? When the world is slowly dying And all [...]

Woe to the Writer

I was set to ‘kill time’ in school today. Made sure my journal was packed neatly in my bag. But lo and behold, as I was set to write, my lovely pen was nowhere in sight, thus the silly prose poetry. Tsk. Woe to the Writer by: RJ Woe to the writer who is caught [...]

Thoughts that keep me awake at night

Photo by BrittneyBush No Escape by: RJ There are thoughts that keep me awake at night And keep me absent-minded in the day — Gliding on a golden field, endless heaps of hay Thoughts about what is and what was, But never of what could be. They haunt me of a past long gone and [...]

Let's start anew

As we shelve memories of 2009 and resolve to start anew in 2010,  forget not “the good times and the bad you’ve seen and all the others in between…” Happy New Year everyone! Let us remember each other and look forward to tomorrow with faith in love and in God. Times of Your Life by: [...]

I Like Endings

Photo by alicepopkorn ( in and out ***** I Like Endings (by: RJ) I like endings. They’re very kind. They wake you up from a dream And take you back to reality. They make you realize that some things Aren’t meant to begin in the first place. While endings can’t undo things that you screwed-up, [...]

This Is A "Declaration" of "Doing All Right"

Two songs to reinforce and re-establish the “personableness” of this blog against the backdrop of politics and technology. Photo by Frederic della Faille Disclaimer: The songs and lyrics are the property of the respective authors, artists and labels, and are provided here for informational and entertainment purposes only. ***** Declaration (Words and music: Jon Black) [...]