Edgardo Tugade Poems

I have no space,
have so much time,
out of the race
(meter and rhyme) .
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Ito lang ang hinihintay niya:
kung ano ang para sa kanya.
Ang dami nang dumating at nawala
pero lahat ay napasaiba.
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DANSHI

As I judge men’s arms
By how they’d feel around me,
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(Batang Pulubi)

Mas higit ang bigay mo
sa bigay ko sa iyo;
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i play records of nocturnes
at any hour of the day
at any time of the year
none of my neighbors object
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Star-distant loves twinkling,
shooting and falling, twinkling,
shooting and falling...
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Do but two things and
you will endure: the least harm,
the most good pursue.
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Death is a father,
perhaps. Death is a father's
embrace, perhaps. Wait.
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Laughter salutes death.
Laughter greets God's final 'No! '
with praises and thanks.
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wish i could pull the
distance between us like a
rug in the sad times
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