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 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...
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Youth
These have known the tingling freshness Of the coming forth from God; The sweetness of mother’s breast The ringing sinewiness of growth, The feel of...
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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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Death
We are Leaves of Life’s tree — And death is the wind that shakes The branches gently ’till its leaves All fall.
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The Monkey and The Turtle
“The Monkey and the Turtle” is a famous fable in the Philippines which has some variation from one storyteller to another. Here is one variation...
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Love In The Cornhusks
Tinang stopped and waited before the Seňora’s gate. The dog’s came to bark at her and her baby cried out loud. Not so long, Tito,...
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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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I Vialed The Universe
I vialed the universe And laughed at the concentrated Gods. But the Genie escaped with His halo of riddles. I pondered anew and unslept. Thoughts...
