Reflecting for the Week (3)

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I pause from blogging this week, in order to reflect more on my other work: Theory of Algorithms and The Core Algorithm.

What do you need to reflect on, and how often should you do so?

Reflecting for the Week (2)

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I pause from blogging this week, in order to reflect more on my other work: Theory of Algorithms and The Core Algorithm.

What do you need to reflect on, and how often should you do so?

Reflecting for the Week (1)

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I pause from blogging this week, in order to reflect more on my other work: Theory of Algorithms and The Core Algorithm.

What do you need to reflect on, and how often should you do so?

Epitaph for Maria's Friend

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When all he wished to do was earn a living
In order to support his family,
To live an earnest life and be forgiving,
Must someone slap a brutal tragedy?
     For with his death we have unfurled
     A pall of winter on the world.

For Rohit Jagada

`Epitaph for Maria's Friend © Ron Villejo

"Thank You for the Music"

Jumeirah Music Center

Poetry awakens fresh

In the evening when the rush
That defines our day has passed.

Nimble fingers on the strings –

How they dance in concert like

A ballet of their creating.

Duet on piano as

Lovers are in their relating –

Playful, push and pull, and close.

Habanera in the square

Where our dear soprano sings

Like a northern mockingbird.

Gossip is just chatter but

Put to music it becomes

Opera as Mozart found.

Song, emotion, image, dance
Come however they may come
Still lead us to poetry.

On attending the concert by the Jumeirah Music Center, in support of the Philippine Bantay Bata charity

"Thank You for the Music" © Ron Villejo

On Ramadan

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Part 1

I am not Muslim, but on Ramadan,
     I pray that all of us be kind –
     That rise or set, no matter where the sun,
Oh, kindly be the friend we find.

Part 2

To feel the hunger that the poor may feel –
This is what Ramadan means to reveal.

Part 3

To exercise restraint
     On things that we consume
     Allows our soul the room
To love without constraint.

Part 4

To fast means more than saying ‘no’
     To food or drink or smoke or take –
     It’s saying ‘yes’ for goodness sake 

And following where angels go.

Part 5

Can we be faulted for the human wish to have, to want, to get? 

Maybe not. If the call to give is something we do not forget.

`On Ramadan © Ron Villejo

Ramadan and Change

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That Ramadan can help us change is right –
The holy month creates a line of sight
To lasting goodness, and ensures the fight
For peace and hope and charity is tight.
The whole of us must fast throughout daylight –
Besides our mouth, our heart and soul must cite
The reasons to refrain from any might
That hurts the others, with whatever slight –
No gossiping, no rumors, lies or bite
Of insult – and, if so, be sure to write
Or say “apologize.” There, from a height,
We know that Allah watches, eyes as bright
As sun and moon, with such a goodness white

With all perfection in the day and night.

For Sameera and Saba, after hearing feedback of Dr. Omar Abdel Kafi’s lecture on Ramadan

`Ramadan and Change © Ron Villejo