Indecision
He craves to sit beside the shady buttress Of some ancient tree, Or better still, on some abandoned beach, Or on a ferny hillside sloping...
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1896 (Cry Freedom)
The cry awoke Balintawak And the echoes answered back… “Freedom”! All the four winds listened long To the shrieking of that song…. “Freedom”! I heard...
Like a Joke that Seems True
Pets and lightning may strike them in Manila But pray not here in the restaurant of Go Bani The filthy “pansit” still delights the tongues,...
God Said, “I Made a Man”
God said, “I made a man Out of clay – But so bright he, he spun Himself to brightest Day Till he was all shining...
The Story of the Creation – A Bilaan Myth (Mindanao)
In the very beginning there lived a being so large that he cannot be compared with any known thing. His name was Melu, and when...
The Story Of The Unfinished Bridge
This story is a legend from the people of Southern Kalinga in the Philippines about the existence of an unfinished bridge in the place. At...
God Sees the Truth, But Waits
In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own. Aksionov was...
The Waves
Matters of big moment at stake, and the struggle of a character in a painful effort to decide which course to follow—these make the essence...
My Father Goes To Court
When I was four, I lived with my mother and brothers and sisters in a small town on the island of Luzon. Father’s farm had...
Why The Blaans Are Ignorant
In the olden days, according to the old Blaans,the American, Muslim and the Blaan were the only people in this world. One day, Melu the...
