on reading the works
of the philippine contemporary poets
have you ever browsed the flyleaves
of their hardbound anthologies?
have you ever read
the lines of their poems
the high-flown words
bleeding in each glossy page?
i am flabbergasted!
i did not realise that poetry
should be written with words
that you need to scan a dictionary
to understand what they mean
if you can't find a clue
on the context and
between the lines
and so these are the new poets
who manufactured nuts and bolts
disguising the brown truth
with their white-colored voice
of the philippine contemporary poets
have you ever browsed the flyleaves
of their hardbound anthologies?
have you ever read
the lines of their poems
the high-flown words
bleeding in each glossy page?
i am flabbergasted!
i did not realise that poetry
should be written with words
that you need to scan a dictionary
to understand what they mean
if you can't find a clue
on the context and
between the lines
and so these are the new poets
who manufactured nuts and bolts
disguising the brown truth
with their white-colored voice
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