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Something to THINK about
Imagine you're in a Airport. While you're waiting for your flight, you notice a kiosk selling shortbread cookies. You buy a box, put them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an available seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies. Finally you find a seat next to a gentleman. You reach down into your traveling bag and pull ( Read more... ) -
May.......
May.....
JPA (c)1985
Revised and translated in Filipino by Manoy 2007
May manggagawa, wala namang trabaho...
May plano, wala namang pondo...
May pinag aralan, pero wala namang katinuan..
Edukado, pero bobo..
May kultura, subalit walang moralidad..
May relihiyon, wala namang konsyensiya...
May batas, wala namang sumusunod...
May pamahalaan, wala namang ( Read more... ) -
Selected poems
SELDA 1972 (JPA 1972)
translated in Filipino/revised by Manoy Velasquez 2007
Kay taas ng pader sa aking paligid,
munting pisngi ng langit ang tanging nasisilip,
mutya kong tinatangi aking naiisip,
pagkat pagtangis ng mutya'y lubusan kong batid.
O mutyang ginigiliw na lugmok sa dalita,
ang makitang laya ka'y aking ninanasa,
ang kundiman kong ito'y ( Read more... ) -
GREEN & RED
When the green turns red, it is autumn,
when the tanks rolled in.
Choppers and jets patrol the skies as if their own.
But down below,
bodies and souls are blown to bits
and into oblivion.
Elsewhere in the world,
similar events occur,
although not as bad
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