Pacific Hernandez Poems

Sa ating buhay ay mayroon pa kaya
Na sa ating ina'y higit pang dakila
Ina na nagtaya ng sariling buhay
Nang sa mundong ito'y tayo ay isilang
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The tree said to the grass, 'Is it your contentment
to be just at my foot, remain under my shade?
Why don't you do as I, my aims are very high.
I want to reach the moon and the stars in the sky
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On my way to this world, I did first see your light
Light that guided the ways of the first pair of hands
that placed me on the bed, be at my mother's side
From the dark little world wherein, before, I was
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Each time I'm on the boulevard
You're there with me, walk by my side
But talk to me you'd never do
A thing I would expect of you
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My memories of you, like waves keep coming back
Add torment and torture onto my troubled mind
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A poet is not a one person,
He is the poem he writes
Glad yesterday, today he is
but tomorrow is sad
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Sore thumb, yes, it rhymes with numb
A thing I painfully out did find
When I hit the nail right on the head
Did'nt know my thumb was near beneath
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Iterred in a mausoleum don't let me be
Nor in a metal box lay the remains of me
Be buried underground, six feet it is too deep
Only a shallow grave is what for me I wish
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LAKING MARIKINA


Ang Aming mga Ninuno
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From between the pages of an old dusty book
A yellowing paper, with trembling hands I took
And with tears in my eyes again and again I read
The message/writ therein, I refuse to believe
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