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ALBERT B. CASUGA, a Philippine-born writer, lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, where he continues to write poetry, fiction, and criticism after his retirement from teaching and serving as an elected member of his region's school board. He was nominated to the Mississauga Arts Council Literary Awards in 2007. A graduate of the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Thomas (now University of Santo Tomas, Manila. Literature and English, magna cum laude), he taught English and Literature (Criticism, Theory, and Creative Writing) at the Philippines' De La Salle University and San Beda College. He has authored books of poetry, short stories, literary theory and criticism. He has won awards for his works in Canada, the U.S.A., and the Philippines. His latest work, A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems was published February 2009 by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. His fiction and poetry were published by online literary journals Asia Writes and Coastal Poems recently. He was a Fellow at the 1972 Silliman University Writers Workshop, Philippines. As a journalist, he worked with the United Press International and wrote an art column for the defunct Philippines Herald.

Friday, August 20, 2010

NO, HE WILL NOT WAIT. (Poem 2 --- A Jump Out of a Quatrain)

THE WORLD HIS OYSTER

He would not take a  proffered hand to cross the street:
"I'm not a baby anymore. I will wait, abuelo." But he will not wait.

No, he cannot wait for the world to pass him by: no cars nor wars,
landlslides or fires, floods of blood, or trembling babies wetting sheet

Will stop him. Across the street is a pizza parlour. He will not wait.


A. B. Casuga
Mississauga, August 20, 2010




(Louie Martin on a downtown sidewalk.)




A Revision
August 24, 2010

THE WORLD HIS OYSTER



He would not take a proffered hand
to cross the street:
"I'm not a baby anymore.
I will wait, abuelo."

But he will not wait.

No, he cannot wait for the world
to pass him by: no cars nor wars,
landlslides or fires, floods of blood,
or trembling babies wetting sheet

Will stop him. Across the street
is a pizza parlour.

He will not wait.

--- A. B. Casuga
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