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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remnants ***** LAST LEAF FALLING AGAIN
Cascades live @ central bank
davao city
with ticket courtesy of maa'm kiss
30 July 2006
Carry me back
to an old old time
and sing all
Rhythm of the Rain
that rhyme
Bring me back
some Shy Girl
type
so i can have
nauive woman
watching besides me
enjoy de javu
of some great old times
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politics ***** NATIONALISM- THE IDEOLOGY OF ABUSE
unfold the history
human killed human
blood for blood
for nation's sake
territorial integrity
sovereignty
patriotic pride
heroic honor
a legacy down to
generations to generations
for country's name
intuitive freedom
independent from
external will
politically economically
free from stranger's control
Quietly dangerous
if nationalism is being abused,
it creates another
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sex ***** CHESS MONARCHY, SEDUCING THE QUEEN
Come play with me
My black horse
ready to abduct the
caucasian queen
as I double-tapped with
the totalitarian king
the unordained bishop
is cornered
meditating for a miraculous
pawn sacramental jihad
I jump thru horse riding
with my mighty armored knight
to capture the virgin queen
in ancient board monarch
out of illicit desire to own
the queen for my life
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Birth Control Logic
Birth control is not anti-self-indulgence
not even depriving the
supreme gift of pleasure
Yes God allows people
to multiply on earth
Yet same God instructs
same people to subdue
and take control the multiplied population
Human needs need controllership
to take control is not merely
to control, to rule over populace.
to take control is taking control
the ultimate birth-making pleasure
to subdue perilous ballooning population
Birth control therefore is not
anti-self-indulgence
rather a noble submission
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tourism ***** ASKEWED FLOATING RESTAURANT
Manila breakwall
concrete warft
there float
askewed restaurant
dined by tycoon guests
swallowing rare delicacies
for my taste bud of imagination
as cuddled by
all season motif waves
of the salt bay
sneakingly at distant i glance
ashame to touch
even the entrance exit stair
feclining upward to
heavenly 3 storeys
gigantic kitchennete vessel
like restaurant
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JOURNEY - to my journey
Who says life is a journey
not a destination
and man is the captain
of his fate
If life is a mere journey
heading towards its goal
and the goal itself
conceded life
it ceases its journey
If man is the captain
of his fate
then why some men landed
in a tragic shore
thus, what is known is the unknown
what is certain is the uncertainties
what is fix is the unfixable man's destiny
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terrorism ***** MRT and LRT RIZAL BOMBING
Zooming
roaring
coming
falling not from sky
humming like bees
rushing-hour
a city train, it's a metro rail transit
passing
rail road track
along EDSA
goes to and fro
escaping from traffic jam
curing headache commuters
quick halt
dropping
snatching token passengers
then buzzing
zooming falling not from sky
it is the city MRT rushing - hour city train
passing by malls, galleria, shrine
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bloodline ***** MOTHER'S DAY TANDEM
Whether spinning backward
circling steadily on time
moving rapidly into the future
still there is no other
most sentimental and
sensational tandem
of human life long relationship
than mother-son bonding
and this awesome epistle
share on this mother's day attachment
continuity
through emotional verses
though written in different stroke and form
unlike ordinary letter
from another tounge
another shadow
from darkest moment
and unstinting sunshine of courage
still this epistle manifests
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