Tagagamit:Televido/Harvest

Viktor Nonong Medrano

Spring-Summer Eternity

Starfruits, Kiwis, Very Berries, Guavas, Passionfruits, Ginger Roots

All in my Coconut Milk Drinks at the Café

Pizzas, Dried Seaweed Snacks, Ice Teas, Vanilla (or Chocolate) Ice Cream

At the Licorice Suburban Corner Store

Façade grey metal chairs and tables

A view of Williams Road (and Number Three Road)

Vietnamese and Japanese eateries

All my favourite haunts on Lulu Isle

Far, faraway, eternal Bougainvilleas, Hibiscuses, and Baobabs



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-24)

Pizzas

Native Man

Wizard of Oz

Grey Canuck Duck

Handwoven baskets

Sacred rock formations

Serendipitous titillations

Native relative

Nature informative

Ceramic jugs

Exquisite rugs



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-24)

Jugs

Bingkéng

"Bingkéng" ang gustó niyáng tawag sa akin.

May barkadang panáy ang damó.

Sa usok ang damdamin.

Pinóy lahát tayo; alám mo?

Mas gustó ko ang pagkain.



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-24)

Kokosujoj al Abioj

Kokosujoj laŭ la strand'

Al glaŭkaj abioj laŭ la strat'

Bananoj al pomoj

Tropiklando al neĝolando

La Senŝanĝanta Maro



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-23)

Cadillacs and Miata

Others' bodies like Cadillacs

Mine like a Miata

Colourful jackets on racks

Gnawing on a ciabatta

Bratwursts in sacks



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-08-23)

Vraka Strando

ĉe la Vraka Strand'

vestaĵ-laŭvola ludant':

indianeske



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-11)

Vraka Strando

Gazebo and Swing

Near the faraway jungle houses

was a quaint jungle gazebo

where there had crept a jungle snake.

A cozy canopy glider swing

was in the flipping garden.

Beyond were gratiles berries clinging.

Not at all was the family compound barren.



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-09)

Balloon Vines

Creeping balloon vines

outside urban apartment:

Yeah Filipiña!



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-09)

Balloon Vines

Temples and Josses

Stubborn urusai crowds

Blue sky and white clouds

Joss sticks in front of Josses

Chopsticks in a rice bowl of Pork Chops

Flips in an inflatable kiddie pool

"You want to join us?" says the school

A crowd of teens with 1970's hairdos

In a corner store of clerks not just Hindus

A walk to the green grove temples

Down south on Number Three Road

Iced Apple Green Tea with Bubbles

Phonograms with Logograms like cryptic code

At night, the wondrous full moon showed



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-09)

One Head-shaven, One Black-haired

One Head-shaven, One Black-haired

Big bulging white man

Looks part-Amerind

Fancies an Eastern lady

Drives a green car shared

Another one handsome

Reminiscent of tamarind

Both seeing a wild shaman

Under massive trees shady



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-08)

Blond and Squid

In Stockholm and Helsinki

Looking for hairy blond men

Grey ice cream squid-inky

Isla Lulu Tagalog practice, amen



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-08)

Red Savannah

big red savannah

around the Spanish mansion:

whirlwind near a cliff



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-05)

Chlorine

Labyrinth and like Amerind

Sushi rolls not so choosy

Swimming pool and jacuzzi

Plasticky chlorine smells

Saunas and mighty bells



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-05)

Silly Rabbits

Hi, silly rabbits!

You have white, brown, and black fur

on your fat bodies.



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-04)

A Crow Flies

a crow flies towards

yonder coniferous tree:

unraining grey skies



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-04)

Blue Rose Garden

big blue rose garden

around the Spanish mansion:

smell of new bark mulch



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-04)

Red, Orange, Yellow

Red, Orange, Yellow

Summer Thai temple days mellow

Sweet Duck on East Hastings Street Menus

Philosophical nighttime venues

After speculative fiction movies

Born in the time of being groovy

We the Japanesque marshmallows



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-03)

Wat Yanviriya

Lychee in Syrup on Ice

Lychee in Syrup on Ice

Not everyone in East Van eats rice

Back in Tōkyō are Rāmen-Ya

Offices like temples of Maya

Isla Lulu platter-sized hamburgers

Kitsilano condo boiled cauliflowers



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-03)

Childhood Number 5

Illuminares Lantern Festival

Trout Lake and snowcapped mountains

Vintage books and clothes

East Van character homes

Where people are not drones

Cafés and chow mein are a carnival

Esperanto meetings no rival

Downtown and Gastown excursions

Holistic Europe-Asia confusions



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-03)

Trout Lake

Swedish Furniture and Hot Chocolate

Never had Rose Hip Soup

Tasted an IKEA Almond Cake

Sitting at the handsome dock

Faraway Lake Sammamish gawk

Coconut Milk Hot Chocolate Grande

Lulu Island Flatlander break

Every day like a Chinese Donut Tuesday



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-03)

Cooked Bamboo Shoots

Cooked Bamboo Shoots

A Korean Picasso

Forever green Esperanto

Never been to Toronto

A tree with contorted roots

A fine marbled teraso

Vietnamese calligraphy

Imaginary geography

A basket of fruits



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-02)

Mugicha and Pizza

Cold Mugicha (or Barley Tea)

And Pizza Slice (or Mini Pan Pizza)

At the corner convenience store

In the Pandemic Genie Folklore

Flashbacks of Harajuku (and Ginza)

Now back here in the Big North

Glee and Sorrow gushing forth



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-06-01)

Harajuku Station, built in 1924

Black Tea Latte

Black Tea Latte

With Coconut Milk

From the corner Café

My tuque not of Silk

A walk in the green grove

Where crows and seagulls rove

A venerable verdant temple

Life not being so simple

A stray newspaper with a ripple



Viktor Nonong Medrano (2020-05-31)