adventure ***** STANDING ON MACTAN BRIDGE 2
for uncle nestor and auntie helen marchan-alindajao and family
Mandaue City 2002
sight touches bountiful scenes
360 degrees of exquisite modernity
seen above concrete bar
connecting Lapu-lapu and Mandaue
across Mactan channel
dreamy eyes where vision lies
sailing besides giant ferries
global containers, importer tankers
along concrete banks
mammoth depots
and the sweet-to-ride supercat
water jet from tantalizing distant
dearly pass below
coastguard tugboat bumping
the walls of cruiser lines
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tourism ***** JOSE RIZAL STANDING AT DAPITAN
tribute poem to the
Philippine national hero
Dr. Jose P. Rizal as exiled here
in Dapitan by the Spanish colonizers
before he was firing- squad- to -death
in Luneta, Manila 1898
Long before I heard
this historic place
even before I took up
civic and culture elementary
grade school subject
I visit here not for
educational tour
riding bus for hire
by a whole institutions
pressured by mentors
against consent by some parents
who never value about history
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fantasy ***** MERMAID IN BILIRAN SUNSET
for my cum laude bro Giovanni Amador and family who opened door and let me in in the island of Biliran
my adrenaline glands rushing down my feet
to see in flesh the real mermaid before sunset
it is real
really an invitation from my bro that fired me
to stretch naval to almeria shore
to touch in flesh their little mermaid story
but the crimson sun
hiding down with shame
defeating my selfish intentions
he is now hypnoticing my weaknesses
as he gleaming deep down
inserting red rays in pockets
from mantling shore
reflects again dual sunset
the entire horizon now become
a single molten bay
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society ***** FACE MASK FOR SWINE FLU SCARE
April 2009 and beyond
exactly at world hour
time has come
that the pig, the hog, the piglet
the boar, the swine
get back at their obsessed predators
excluding my muslim brods and
my Jewish canadian sniper
but they can't escape the killer flu
floating in the air
the airborne virus outbreak
could grow into fearful pandemic
like another holocaust of Hitler
nazis genocidal tragic past
if W.H.O. can't paralyzed the
magnified phobia against
swine vengeance threat
From outbreak's epicenter -
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bloodline ***** FISHING ON PALILAN TABO-O WHITE SAND TRENCHES
in memory of the late Carlos carling Caminos, our fisherman, and to my biological Papa Romy
at Brgy. Palilan and Tabo0o, Jimenez, Misamis Occidental,
Mindanao, Philippines
Nearly summer
March night of 1995
crest of waves took off
beneath the escaping-out Pacific
typhoon eye
hitting upper most Philippine
archipelago
A perfect night for
my childish fishing adventure
at Misamis sea
after Papa permitted me to
join Carling in GOODBYE type
fishing
I threw then a fishing net as we
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art ***** KENT PHOTOGRAPHY
for kent's camera that covered my wedding day
kent clicks cinematic photos
flicking smooth scheming
finger licking touch while
tracking shutter speed
of longitudinal omnipresence lens
hostaging asset angles
of magical transitions
details by details
no corrupt single moment
in all dramas and occasions
in life modernity celebrations
like the momentous peak in
2 opposite being
merging into one soul
the kissing scene
the wine tossing
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Crash Site Mountaineer
come climb with me to Mt. Manunggal Phils.
commemorating the 45th death anniversary of Pres. Ramon Magsaysay in his crash site, Balamban, Cebu, March 17,2002
I escaped from the lowland
and returned to the wilderness
to the mountains, to the high world,
brightened by a wind-blown sun,
excitement replenished
enthusiasm regained!
Each heavy step offered me
hollow gasps and a throbbing heart
each weary track gave me
pain and strain on a serpentine path
but I saw through a curtain of
summer dust
investment of youthful strength
is indeed a must!
Soon, the sun hid freely behind
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football Field Gem
(Grand Evangelical Mission,10th of May 2009, Agro Football Field, Davao City, commemorating the 123rd birth anniversary of Ka Felix Y. Manalo, God's last messenger)
Throngs of believers and non-believers
assembled together into one herd
to cheer not up spectacular soccer game
but to listen the Church of Christ
evangelical expose' aim
Caravans of jeeps, boats, buses alike
faithful followers, marching with streamers
peace-governing authority with shimmering light
of overwhelming joy and unifying gratitude
in celebrating God's last messenger
123rd birthday
Celebration's highlights unlike pagan feasts
nor mix with worldly dance, pleasure and flesh
but by grace of imparting God's messages
in these last days
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Sail On... unsinkable Ofw
@ Dubai - our stop over
like a ship
docking momentarily
in the oil-rich wharf
like an empty vessel
cast-off from the island - lost sea
smashed by the economic - recession tide
we're here reloading
refueling before heading back
towards our hometown sovereign shore
years of labor, backing up with
undying patience against
undeniable discrimination
culture shock, mental torture
emotional stress
nostalgic feelings
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Sail On..........Young Overseas Workers
@ Dubai - our stop over
like a ship
docking momentarily
in the oil-rich wharf
like an empty vessel
cast-off from the island - lost sea
smashed by the economic - recession tide
we're here reloading
refueling before heading back
towards our hometown sovereign shore
years of labor, backing up with
undying patience against
undeniable discrimination
culture shock, mental torture
emotional stress
nostalgic feelings
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