tourism ***** JOSE RIZAL BIRTH HOME REVISITED
Calamba Laguna
April 2001
I am here
national hero's home
I am strolling inside and out
Spanish
architectural influence
the art of our
hero's immortal foe
irony but facts
my feet rooted near the lips
of his wishing well
near Zoro type
kalisa garage
i am wishing
i would be a modern hero
a hero of my own
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nature ***** THE BURUWISAN CRYSTAL FALLS
She is the daughter falls of Pagsanjan
by spectators
local and foreign tounge
Pagsanjan is the goddess falls in
archipelago
like crystal Buruwisan
her awesome white water
lass
cascading
flowing down the brooks
rivulets
like in an exhibit painting
in shopping mall
gallery
in museum
but here she is alive
moving
talking
diving
greetings with pride to all
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adventure ***** JANUARY FEET
2001 January trains my feet
as wild gypsy rover
scant vagabond
vagrant
wandere
to be nomad
without back pack of tent
homeless in the mind and
phsycical shield and shelter
roaming around
Philippine city capital
along the highway of nothingness
it is in great contrast
blind people think
that i am roaming around
like scavenger collecting
empty cans
i wander to pick up
loiterring friends
retrieving promotional agencies
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z. creature ***** TWIN BACTERIA FACE TO FACE
PE 4 swimming lesson Amoranto, Cubao
I dive at the pool
swim freestyle
underwater
I open my eyes
Minute bacteria facing
face to face
drifting beneath
in chlorinated pool
bubbling
multiplying the germs
I step up
looking back universal solvent
I mirror myself
my face is floating
facing back to me
and boomerang single identity
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Twin Virus Face to Face
PE 4 swimming lesson Amoranto, Cubao
I dive at the pool
swim freestyle
underwater
I open my eyes
Minute bacteria facing
face to face
drifting beneath
in chlorinated pool
bubbling
multiplying the germs
I step up
looking back universal solvent
I mirror myself
my face is floating
facing back to me
and boomerang single identity
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sorrow ***** FLIGHT OF DISAPPOINTMENT
(from Lumbia airport CDO to NAIA)
Lift me up high
Above a cloudy sky
Where no cotton balls
Thick and strong
Bumping on the silver wings
At right window side
I am dismayed
Where is the golden sun
The round ocean
The verdant mountain
The landscape of the world
You’ve promise to reveal?
Then breathless heartbeat
Pulsing a nervous twitch
Engine is shaking
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6 A.M. Manila Harbor Impression
upon entering the harbor mouth
it's not fog
it's smog
smoke and fog
blanketing the capital city
an artificial canopy
green house blanket
warming the globe
acid rain huge net
salty bay turning murky
wastes floating to-and-fro
assorted oil spills
dilapidated junkyard wall
dividing the shore
countless carcass
too foul to smell
greasy porter
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Lonesome Winds Collection
Though some wind strikes catastrophic end
some blows concrete chills
some are ferocious as fire
gists no gust at all
winds are like self-acclaimed laurel
crowning an empty head
who keeps on bragging himself
perhaps the wind pushing my pen
misread by curious men
as strayed bullet
hitting aimless aim
and by now they would know
the wind I've revealed
still and motionless
a breathless wind traps
on a book pocket -
a random diaries
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jose Rizal Statue - Body Bleaching
My hero
oh my hero
I propose to you a body bleached, a body
which would be cleansed
its external surface
You remain standing
for countless years
seen by intriguing tourist-eyes
all weeds species
crawling from your feet
and little moss
sucking your face
rainshower is your
noon blanket
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adventure ***** DISCOVERY HILLS MOONGAZING
(with 33 TV eskwela students, with mentor stage and TV Director Doti Aznar and Freeman Newspaper writer Eleanor Valeros,2002, Cebu, Philippines)
A quarter past eleven
on an April 30 evening
the hills are lightened up
by the glow of one moon rising
She ascends on a silver screen
tears the sky with hands a-burning
scrapes the sticky tail of clouds
cheers the earth with her millenial gold
paints the earth's cheek
with so much brightness
Clouds crawl and scatter
drawing up a curtain stars
Luna is pasted once more
on a night sky!
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