I Thought of You

I Thought of You

written by: Tea Solon

i thought of you
as the sun gently sets
before Phnom Bakheng

i thought of you
and the kisses
we could have shared
when right before our eyes
as the orange sun winks on lowly
mortals capturing its radiance,
the man got down on his knee and
proposed to his blushing
sunkissed bride

i thought of you
as the sun slowly rises
from behind Angkor Wat

i thought of you
and the poetries
we could have spoken
when right before our eyes
as the young red sun climbs
the tips of the oldest temple,
the woman and her love read
age-old stories on dew-covered grass
where age-old stories began

i thought of you
as twin souls walked eternally
temple after temple lovingly
holding each other’s aged hands
climbing on century-old rocks
exhaling in between lifetimes
pausing only to gently kiss each other’s
forehead eyes cheeks

i thought of you
here among the ruins where
all shattered thoughts take
only one whole form—
in spite of lifetimes of war
the strongest love
withstood them all.

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Tea Solon

Tea Solon enjoys drinking coconut water any given day. She runs the Butung is Layp (Coconut is Life) blog. A former academic, Tea holds an MA in Literature from the University of San Carlos and a PhD from the University of San Jose-Recoletos in Cebu City, Philippines. Her Cebuano Visayan poems have found a home on the pages of Kabisdak, and her English poems have appeared in Spillwords and Gobblers by Masticadores, among others. Tea collaborated and published three books: SOLON DESCENDANTS Poetry and Creative Expressions from 3 Generations (2022); DEW OF MY MEMORIES Collection of Poetry in Cebuano and English (2022); PALWA (2023), her first collection of poetry. Her pieces also appeared in poetry anthologies: DAGAT UG KINABUHI Translating Contemporary Cebuano Poetry (2022) and the #1 Amazon Bestseller PETALS OF HAIKU: An Anthology (2024).

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