MonRam, 1944-2021

Unlike the moon you wrote about, I did / not know you were a secret poet / crafting paeans about the silent and glowing / orb across cloudless night skies / and shadow-throwing trees giving shelter / to comrades trekking dangerous mountain trails.

BINHI NG TULA

“Ang balita kahapo’y kagila-gilalas / ‘Sang hiningang maluwalhating napigtas / Buhay na tapat sa hangaring lumaya / Kamataya’y makapangyarihang tula…”

MAYAMOR*

By Tomas Talledo   You write poetry but who reads? They who sends SMS “I luv U ga…mwah”? They who sit at coffee shops blubbering inanities? They who sex at the age of fourteen?   They’re Plato’s ilks who’ll banish poetry in our people’s republic.   You vividly paint the revolution but who stops to […]

NDF-Panay on Antique 7: ‘Proudest to acknowledge and claim them’

“We boast of them as among the best sons and daughters of our motherland.”–Concha Araneta   THE National Democratic Front in Panay (NDF-Panay) acknowledged that the seven killed in San Jose, Antique Wednesday, August 15, were their own who were “veterans and responsible cadres of the [Communist Party of the Philippines] and the revolution.” In […]

Tugon sa pamanang hamon

Alay kay Maya Daniel ng Antique 7   “we stand undaunted/to dark clouds/we fight and we get up/to see our bright day!”—Verse, Maya Daniel   Namamatay ang daigdig Tuwing may pulang makatang pumapanaw Tumitigil sa pag-inog, ang mundo’y Hindi humihinga sansaglit.   Hindi dumadaloy ang mga ilog Ang hangi’y hindi umiihip Ang ulap ay ayaw […]