Thursday, April 29, 2010

A RAGE POEM ON THE MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE

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SCREAM: A MAGUINDANAO DIRGE* She lost her rubber slippers in the mud when Crackling mayhem scuttled their march to town Ripping through thei...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

IF: AN EARTH DAY POEM

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AN EARTH DAY POEM: IF It’s when I’m weary of considerations,/And life is too much like a pathless wood.../I’d like to get away from earth a ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

HOLOCAUST IN MY MIND (A REVISION) AND THE WRITER'S NOTEBOOK

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CRUISE FARES 3: HOLOCAUST IN MY MIND (A QUICK REVISION AND AFTERTHOUGHT) Yobo of Sarnia “In ascending steep climbs, the Himalayan Sherpas ho...
Friday, April 16, 2010

CRUISE FARES 3: HOLOCAUST IN MY MIND

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CRUISE FARES 3: HOLOCAUST IN MY MIND Yobo of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada “In ascending steep climbs, the Himalayan Sherpas hold each other on th...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

CRUISE FARES 2: EDO AND UMBERTO OF BRAZIL

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Umberto and Edo de Brazil --- It rained at the Grand Anse beach in Grenada. Writer’s Notebook on the Cruise Hurriedly, furtively putting on ...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

CRUISE FARES: THE VIEUX MADAME, 84

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A CRUISE FARE: THE VIEUX MADAME, 84 She held on to the shorter side of her skirt, a Creole form of rainbow radiance raw on rays, and took th...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A MARCH BREAK AT SEA

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A week's vacation at sea makes all the difference between being too busy to live and being too busy to rest. If I had my druthers, I wou...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

DOES DIASPORA WRITING ENRICH CANADIAN LITERATURE?

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In a recent Literature in Other Languages post, Dr. Isagani Cruz cited efforts at studying contributions of immigrant writers in Canada i...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

A LULLABY: YOU HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT

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Rock-a-bye, baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, And down will come...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

DUAY-YA: LULLABIES AND WHY

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I wake up these days with an Ilocano duay-ya (lullaby) humming in my head. I could recall the title of the lullaby --- Dungdungwen Kanto (...
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