Category: Philippines

Duterte’s Frostbite (Poem)

October 21, 2018

Note: This is inspired by two writing prompts from The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano. The first one said make a list of the cold words and write about something that has nothing to do with cold things, and the second one was write about a possible future. I wrote this around early 2018 or maybe 2017? I wrote this during the time I thought that Duterte was so powerful and that it was impossible for him to lose power.

Finally Duterte fell
on icy ground,
And the Mochas,
And the Sasses,
And the Roques
felt the chill of defeat.
Winter was coming,
And they weren’t prepared for the wreckage.

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Awayan sa kurtina sa bus

June 26, 2016

Parang scarce resource na yata ang kurtina sa bus. Na-experience mo na ba ito: ang init ng araw kaya hahatakin mo yung kurtina, pero yung taong nasa harap mo hahatakin rin. Away na ito! Naka-aircon bus ka nga pero wa-epek naman ito kasi nakaupo ka sa may bintana at sobrang lakas ng araw.

Dati naman may kurtina ang lahat ng bintana sa bus. Bakit ngayon parang kulang-kulang? Minsan pa nga, walang kurtina yung boung bus. Good luck nalang sa init!

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I Love Kalachuchi Flowers

June 20, 2013

Kalachuchi flowers symbolize death, but that’s not what I see when I’m looking at these white, yellow, or pink fragrant flowers. Instead, they trigger memories of my childhood. I loved climbing the Kalachuchi trees because unlike the coconut tree, they had branches, and unlike the mango tree, they don’t grow that high and the branches are not too thick, and unlike the kamias tree, they only had a few ants instead of a thousand.

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