In the beginning
Before beginnings
God said
Let there be light
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His mountains design flight of earth
Rise of self to the top
Where word and silence stop
The inner eye seeing
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On her natal day, September 25,2011
May you always be
God's masterpiece of art
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A footnote to Levinas (12January06—25December95)
Unto his image
Unto the image and likeness
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In memory of Sr. Asuncion C. Martinez, ICM,84
+ July 21,1994
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All the streets lead to the sacred temple
Built by the town’s flesh and bones,
Its spirit, the blood of life freely given.
The secret is tabernacled here
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It is the idiom of parable
Spells the difference between stranger
And citizen, a language of time here,
Mere curiosity for those passing through.
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How do a mango tree and a bodhi tree
Become One?
The story is told
Of a typhoon venting fury on the City,
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Once she surprised as tongues of lightning
Filling the night with thunder
Promising virginal creation.
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Speak, O Risen Word
Your light everlasting
In darkness of the heart
And let Spirit rule the deeps
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The showrooms hide a hatred for nudes.
(See love abhorring empty places!)
In yellows and reds is an emperor
Displaying his hundred canvass faces.
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(With Emmanuel Levinas)
In Memoriam
+ January 11,2009
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You contemplate me
At midlife become
Your holy hour
And from your brokenness
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Let midnight in
Starlight moonlight and lamplight
Sunlight and mindlight
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I am a Filipino college professor and I teach Latin, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Strategy and Tactics of Local Church Renewal (Base Communities) , and Community Organizing My hobbies are writing, reading and gardening. I eat well, rest well, work well, and pray a little.)
Song For Anna
I went around
Looking for carnations.
I couldn’t find any.
Then it struck me
That today probably
Isn’t for flowers,
But simply for this
Little poem for you
Written on a delicate
Page of sunlight.