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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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The Visitation of the Gods
The letter announcing the visitation (a yearly descent upon the school by the superintendent, the district supervisors and the division supervisors for “purposes of inspection...
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Origin: Bagobo Myth (Mindanao)
In the beginning there lived one man and one woman, Toglai and Toglibon. Their first children were a boy and a girl. When they were...
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Sa Aking Mga Kabata
Kapagka ang baya’y sadyang umiibig, Sa kanyang salitang kaloob ng langit Sanglang kalayaan nasa ring masapit Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid. Pagka’t ang salita’y isang...
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Dead Stars
THROUGH the open window the air-steeped outdoors passed into his room, quietly enveloping him, stealing into his very thought. Esperanza, Julia, the sorry mess he...
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A Dialogue Among Clever People
ONCE some guests were gathered in a rich man’s home, and it happened that a serious conversation about life arose. They talked about persons absent...
