Francisco R. Albano Poems

On the eve of full moon in Aries 2010
Time of dry grass and birds of silence
And 10-minute scattered showers of mercy
Rationing of water and electric power
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QUIAPO EASTER
Manila, Phjilippines

The spirits emerge
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“Astonishing! Everything is intelligent.” - Pythagoras

Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, He said.
And the minds of creation in polyphony chorused agreement.
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For Nina and John

I wish I were there
To take it all in
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To celebrate you
I decided to send a poem,

Over a mountain,
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(a valentine poem of long ago)

When I miss your presence
And love must traverse highways
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(For Anna +February 20,1989)


I gather you Beloved
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Between hosannas of earth and glories of heaven
Above shattered power of Sanhedrin and State
Above tribal loves and laws of the heart
So it is: his cross our cross lifted high/
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His prayer abides
That we be gentleness of his ways
Of his hands breaking bread
Pouring wine of health and cheer
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Everything is as it was in his beginning,
And distance from him was no excuse for change.
Even the dead are alive in the living,
Knowing his return to his fathers’ rain and sun.
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