Rignos Waves
From the window pane
rice fields stretch and shimmer
westward slivers a path
out of gaze along the winding vale.
Ancient farmers gave names
to winds from certain places
with a sense of the invisible
that I first felt and remembered
Sea from the blue sky,
thousands of sparrows dappled its face
I didn't know that there
was a word for life's desires
To leap out of itself
Now looking down and
swooping past my window
and I stand still in wonder.
Around My House
To the east sits steady
Ki Agang’s throne
A splendid blue volcano
where the sun slips in at dawn
The south sprawls a cacophony
of people, friends and kin
clump of trees and concrete
to lose cares in the busy din.
The vast north open boundless
where soothing breeze begin
and Simurai skims the clouds
and the road to dreams open
Sunsets to the west bodes peace
and balmy tranquility sleeps
at Baao lake where my people began
with God’s glory, grandeur, and gifts.
At Barlin Park
Summers end at Barlin park
beneath St. Bartholomew’s
I’d climb the stone bulwark
slippery and wet with dew
and see the town anew
then I would jump free
to the soft grass below
on scraped hands and knee
as others would follow
and roll away triumphantly
and the monkey bars will call
and we clamber up the device
arm over arm we’d crawl
through a gauntlet of pipes
till at last our breath sufficed
no one remembered home
and we wished for the rain
scanning the clouds that roam
as we cleared the grass of grain
where last summer we had lain
come at last the first raindrops
from skies turning grey and dim
I’d close my eyes to the drops
till water reach grass tips rim
and lift me off a carpet of green
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