My friend, Eduardo Cong, picked me up yesterday noon to have some lunch. We're supposed to eat at Endangered Species but it was still closed when we arrived, so we went to this restaurant called Aristocrat instead. I asked him to try a Filipino dish called dinengdeng minus the onions, garlic and bangus (milkfish) as I learned that he is a vegetarian. As usual, we talked a lot about poetry, poetry and poetry.
We dropped by the Corona, a hotel along M. H. del Pilar St. in Ermita, to have some coffee and proceeeded back to EAC. Introduced him to the dean and some faculty members of the newly created College of Liberal Arts. The aftermath, poetry reading until 5:00pm.
Cong also bought five copies of my book Pinabli for his friends in the US.
sonito 140
“Cherish the poet; there seemed many great auks
till the last one died.” – John Fowles
saray umaanlong et tayokor
na karantalan tan pakatalus
sikara met so sankaonoran
ya manangi-antabay ed gotgot
tan gulo ed nagnap ya katuaan
no isip-isipen yon say anlong
et alioan makana kumpara
ed saray arum ni’ra ya arti
singa kayo hiniral ed bakal
ya binagbag to ‘ra’y soldado to
say anlong et lingguahi’y amalsa
say aristos na lapag a bansa
aralen ta pian makapituyiao
ed saray pinalsa’d sansinakub
We dropped by the Corona, a hotel along M. H. del Pilar St. in Ermita, to have some coffee and proceeeded back to EAC. Introduced him to the dean and some faculty members of the newly created College of Liberal Arts. The aftermath, poetry reading until 5:00pm.
Cong also bought five copies of my book Pinabli for his friends in the US.
sonito 140
“Cherish the poet; there seemed many great auks
till the last one died.” – John Fowles
saray umaanlong et tayokor
na karantalan tan pakatalus
sikara met so sankaonoran
ya manangi-antabay ed gotgot
tan gulo ed nagnap ya katuaan
no isip-isipen yon say anlong
et alioan makana kumpara
ed saray arum ni’ra ya arti
singa kayo hiniral ed bakal
ya binagbag to ‘ra’y soldado to
say anlong et lingguahi’y amalsa
say aristos na lapag a bansa
aralen ta pian makapituyiao
ed saray pinalsa’d sansinakub
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