Project Type: Poetry
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NANAY MAGSASAKA
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LUPA Lupa, masdan mo ang magsasakaNa sa iyo ay nagpapayaman, Nagpapakahirap, tunay na nagpapagal, Di alintana ang kainitan ng araw Gayundin ang kalam ng tiyan. Ang masakit nga lamang, Ang lupang pinagyaman, Di sa kanila nakapangalan Kundi sa iilang mayaman. Lupang ilang dekadang binungkal,Sa pamilya ay ibinuhay.Pinagyamang lupa, minana pa sa magulang, Nabubuhay kami nang…
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RAINBOW CHRONICLES AND OTHER POEMS
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PATTERNS The chisel as creatorLends shape to wood, to stone.Shape being the truth of character,Reality of body and bone,Sculpted fact of form,The confidence of matter. The paintbrush as creatorDraws maps of rainbows,Contours of celebrations,Then blends faithful colorsWith their reserved spaces.Spaces being the measure of possibilitiesThat can curtail the guiles of prisms. The pen as creatorCarves…
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BINHI NG PAGLAYA
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Dahil hangga’t ikinukulongat pinapatay nila ang mga naglilingkodsa mga mahihirap at magsasaka,walang puwangpara sa siphayo o panlulumodahil kami,tayo ay mga muntingbinhi ng paglaban. – mula sa “Binhi ng Paglaya” Binhi ng PaglayaAmanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis “Patunay ang aklat na ito na kailanmaý di masasagkaan ng rehas at mataas na pader ang mapanuring kaisipan at malikhaing…
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PANAGLAGIP
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Here are memories of people who live in Northern Luzon during the Marcos dictatorship, but lived the tyranny not in being by it but by resisting the stranglehold. All of the writers were young then, usually students in the various schools and universities. They write of memories about joining political demonstrations, spending their free time…
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SA AKING HENERASYON
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Dahil ang tula, hindi ba, sa simula’y gumagapang,Makakakita’t titindig, makikinig at tatapang,Tumatanda, may alaala at may tiyak na asinta.…Dahil mapanlinlang ang panahong lumilikhang litong talinhaga,At ang tula ang siyang dapat na lumikha sa makata. – Mula sa “Introduksyon” Sa Aking Henerasyon: Mga Tula at Saling-Tulani Kerima Lorena Tariman Tinitipon sa koleksiyong ito ang lahat ng…
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WILDFIRE
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Tell her how to stay silentDuring a revolutionShow her how to thrust this bladeBack inside her throbbing woundThis wildfire is a woman’sYou must think it does not burn – From “Wildfire” by Fritzie Rodriguez Wildfire: Filipina Lesbian Writings There is a need to bring to light the narratives of women-loving-women often invisible or silenced in…
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PA-LIWANAG
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I loved you in my mother tonguea language that does not drip or flowwith all its gnashing consonants: the ks andthe ts and the ns, and hard, stern vowel soundstripping the tongue like rocks and bouldersriddling the Karayan Buaya in the summertime,daradar, kalgaw, see? But you already know that.It was the language that welcomed youinto…



