Literary and Culture

Buhay dakila

August 13, 2020

“Namamag-asa / ang mga hunghang! / na sa pagkitil, / sadyang maagaw din / ang bukal ng yaman / mayron si / ka Randy.”

HINDI KO KAYO TITIGILAN

August 12, 2020

“…hangga’t may palalong tirano / na nakaupo sa palasyo / na hangga’t ang mga anakpawis / ay walang kapangyarihan. / Hinding-hindi ko kayo titigilan.”

REVOLUTION

August 10, 2020

“…The gap that we must bridge / is worth our final breath…”

Kometa

July 25, 2020

…kayo’y naririto pala/kayo’y naririto pa rin/kayo’y mananatili sa alaala/nitong bayang pinag-alayan/ng iyong mga adhikai’t dusa.

‘Aswang’ Documentary Review: Do Not Dare Look Away

July 20, 2020

It nails the purpose of art in comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable. It establishes that the only aswang that exists is not a precolonial shaman or a shape-shifting monster, but fear itself—the fear that dwells within us that is currently aggravated and used by a fascist state to force us into quiet submission and apathy towards the most marginalized sectors of society.

Kung said na ang luha mo Bagong Bayani

June 9, 2020

Iluha mo ang sambuntong kasawiang nagtalakop / Na sa iyo’y pampahirap, sa Gobyerno’y pampalusog: / Ang lahat ng kayamana’y kamal-kamal na naubos, / Ang lahat mong kalayaa’y sa Terror Bill ay natapos; / Masdan mo ang iyong luha, sa Philhealth ay pantubos, / Masdan mo ang yong sahod, sa sobrang buwis itinustos.

JORY’S JOYS

May 18, 2020

Yet, they were mistaken, gravely so, as it was then!
The bullets that pierced Jory’s being did not kill him,
nor, shatter his dreams that there is that day
certain to come when the mamumugon will reap
the just shares of their labors; when the mangunguma
will become masters of the land they till
and feed well the masa, the true jury of history;
And, in his beachside coffeehouse flows free
the brew that will continuously invigorate the banwa,
in defending the gains of the revolution – Jory’s real joys!

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