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Future Livelihood Foul Hooking

go Filipino babies fishing
catching killing
juveniles before breeding

leaving nothing

all small fish taking
destroying breeding
cycles future renewing

future livelihood foul hooking

poem by Terence George Craddock
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The Press Statement

46 million Filipinos
Go hungry everyday
3.8 million Filipino
Families experienced
Having nothing
To eat in 2009
Now, the price of rice
Has increased

So?

I am just writing
Upon Ariel’s prodding.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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A Reaction...

we still have our flag
flying high every Monday
on Fridays we fold them
together as one
national treasure

there are no wars here
that may tear the flags
for more bandages

i am glad and still proud
to be Filipino.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Those Little Birds In My Country

one is red
up the tree
one is blue
down the drain
one is white
at the center
of the house
the others eight
in all
on each window
one sun
with eight rays
no stars
this time
not one
stripe
the Filipino people
has learned
to hate.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

quote by Dana Rohrabacher
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First Encounter - Jericho Rosales

jericho rosales
a young man who thinks
he has the world in his hands

jericho rosales
another young man who needs
the money to keep going

(Jericho is famous Filipino actor and singer)

met in the mid 2000. he was having a concert in Kuala Lumpur.

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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A Chat Of Hope

brb.

i am attending a party
of a friend who brings
his prince charming
from Puerto Rico
whose name is Ludivico
and who promises her
marriage
after she gets widowed
a month ago.

she brings that news
to all her
Filipino friends
who say they are happy too

brb.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The African in You

Man, forget the
African in You
We are all
Men
Part of Humanity
There is no more
African, Russian,
American
and Neither
shall i be Filipino
nor shall he be also
Japanese

Neither shall there
be Plutonians
Nor Marsian
In One Universal
Quest
for Oneness
One Humanity

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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For Lorenzo

there is always a choice between
a barong and something more Filipino

but he goes astray
wanting to portray who he really is

a matter of self-expression
he says is important

one asserts to keep one away
from the enslavement of inferiority

in facing the Chief Justice he drives
the main point of his existence

a pink tie, a pouting mouth,
the famous sway of the hip

a la maya angelou.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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It Rained So Hard In The Mountains

it rained so hard in the mountains
and the water ran
together toward the blue sea

a conquest
between brown and blue

i am looking.
the sea is parted.

brown is about fourteen meters.
and blue is driven away.

the trees are bald.
a coconut falls.

we wait. we see how
brownish things murk
the bluish shade of this world.

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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