Tradition and Culture

A poem is the smallest package containing the biggest things. It should speak volumes upon volumes without saying as much. It should paint a thousand pictures and sculpt a thousand statues. It must possess power enough to send a million ships around the world a million times.
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Drats! I forgot to feed the cats. Anyway, should you come early today, which is as likely as snow in Sta. Rosa, do not complain if the fried rice is without margarine, you did not buy it off the grocery list yesterday and insisted on butter. I have bathed the dogs so you won’t have to gripe that the laundry is piled...
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The night settles in and rouses unfamiliar, untethered feelings. Your mouth is but a whisper from mine. Every touch, every caress, every drift of your fingers leaves a burning trail of gold. Your breath mingles with my sighs, and your eyes relentlessly – shamelessly – lure me. I cannot help but be scorched by the fire – trapped in...
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Golden lights shinning in the east excite all creature, man, and beast a beautiful blue with a bright yellow brooch gives a smile on young faces at noon Well six days slipping, get the crackers and toots the dogs are all howling, and the children are too Round the fire and hearth, dance and sing in delight Young and old men...
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Sa lagoon, ah … dito tayo magkikita ni Enki siya ang aking panginoon Sa lagoon, ah … dito tayo nagsimula at dito rin tayo natutong magmahal Nuong una tayo’y taong walang utak o puso sumusunod sa utos ni Enlil ‘kung ‘di dahil kay Enki Sa lagoon, ah… Dito tayo magkikita, muli ni Enki Siya ang aking panginoon Siya lagi ang tumutulong sa damay, hirap at kirot na nangyayari sa bawat uri ng...
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A clarion hailed to the sky. Another day for men to fight, women waving flags upright upon the mounds of love and pride. The little children with their pipes, their drums and voices harmonize. In this there’s beauty, there is life, no death can wrong what seems so right. Let spirits of each citizen, the actions wrought through innocence, in shadows, lay and let...
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Blown in the wind are the Puritan hats! Let feathers of turkeys be flustered and plucked for gatherers of friends and families, too; employers and bosses from each avenue and feast on this beast of reptilian ilk with stuffings no red necks can honorably bilk in smiles and in kisses; in tender embrace, this is the day that all nation say,...
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The flame tree is in a mantle of red explosions The ladies and young lasses watch by the window sill Gazing at the flaming spectacle from the living room Unaware of the blood lust this carmine display Provoked among the young men in the village The menfolk sauntered in pairs, in larger groups Moving restlessly, listlessly in the dusty street Into...
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The townspeople are watching with a terrible flame in their eyes; spitting venom and disdain, as if they have all the right to judge, vindicate, and condemn. The foulness of their breaths are surpassed onlyby the poison of their words. They believe with such conviction the lies that live off a reputation – a name. The sensationalism and...
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pagbibigyan kita kaya’t humanda ka bibilang ako ng sampu magtago kana   tumakbo ka man ng ilang milya mahahanap kita kahit sumisid ka pa sa vermuda triangle maghihintay ako sa pag-ahon mo   isa, dalawa, tatlo magpalit ka man ng iyong ngalan apat, lima, anim, kahit ipabago mo pa ang iyong mukha   pito, walo, siyam, magpapalit ka man ng ari wala ka paring ligtas kaya galingan mo, dahil   sampu, heto na ako, bung!!! ikaw naman...
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