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Sunday, November 26, 2006
As dusk became near
tiny streaks of sunlight ekeed out
like bursts of sword-like projections
against the gray sky.
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They fade out very slowly but smoothly
unnoticeably becoming vague every second.
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My heart went down too
the fire of love painstakingly diminished
vanishing thru thin hot air.
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There goes my passion
my pure and loving heart torn and withered
almost dried up with hate
crumbled...
burned out...
DEAD.
(Visayan version of this @ Bisaya Bloggers & also @ my friendster site)
Lord Byron - He was born: George Gordon Byron on the same day of the same month when i was (January 22d, 1788 ) but not the same year of course! He is trully my pick among other romantic poets. I love his name so much that i named my only son after him but he died three days after birth : Byron Joseph.One of Lord Byron's works include: When we two parted
When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted,
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.
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The dew of the morningSank chill on my brow—
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
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Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.
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They name thee before me,
They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me—
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well:—
Long, long shall I rue thee
Too deeply to tell.
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In secret we met—
In secret we met—
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
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If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?—
With silence and tears.
Other Romantic poets that i like are: William Wordsworth ; Samuel Coleridge ; John Keats and William Blake
Friday, November 10, 2006
Yeah! it was a surprise really when there was a schedule to go to Tacloban, Leyte for PHNS annual conference. What surprises me most was i've been dying to go to Leyte, particularly Tacloban for more than a decade now and finally there was this chance.
So i grabbed the upportunity right there and then and it turned out to be a great experience ! I got to go to the best tour sites of the region and whallah!.. the next thing i knew I was mesmerized by the entire trip, not to mention i visited the very site where a gruesome incident took place during the American regime in the country, which was part of the very conference i was attending. But it was in Balangiga, Samar, the province next to Leyte, but it was on that place where my surprise took my breath away! Here is the rest of that story... (pls click here)
But one very important moment in my Tacloban trip was the book launching and i was the first one to get hold of a copy, which was signed 'mismo' by the author himself , Prof. Rolly Borrinaga, Phd. ( The Balangiga Conflict Revisited). Here are some pictorials we did:
Prof. Rolando O. Borrinaga
Father Tax and Sir Rolly Borrinaga @ dinner
@ Basey Visita (chapel)
@ Leyte Normal University (LNU) site of the conference
@ the actual site of the Balangiga Incident. @ the back is the replica of the American soldiers and Filipino guerillas as they (Filipinos ) made their attack.
Sir Rolly, Mayor of Balangiga, Madam Churchill, Father Tax
@ the Mac Arthur landing site in Palo, Leyte.
with some of the participants coming from different regions in the Philippines
with Father Tax and the Balangiga Church in the background
the ever famous San Juanico Bridge connecting Leyte and Samar
The Professor and the M.A. Hist. gang
So i grabbed the upportunity right there and then and it turned out to be a great experience ! I got to go to the best tour sites of the region and whallah!.. the next thing i knew I was mesmerized by the entire trip, not to mention i visited the very site where a gruesome incident took place during the American regime in the country, which was part of the very conference i was attending. But it was in Balangiga, Samar, the province next to Leyte, but it was on that place where my surprise took my breath away! Here is the rest of that story... (pls click here)
But one very important moment in my Tacloban trip was the book launching and i was the first one to get hold of a copy, which was signed 'mismo' by the author himself , Prof. Rolly Borrinaga, Phd. ( The Balangiga Conflict Revisited). Here are some pictorials we did:
Prof. Rolando O. Borrinaga
Father Tax and Sir Rolly Borrinaga @ dinner
@ Basey Visita (chapel)
@ Leyte Normal University (LNU) site of the conference
@ the actual site of the Balangiga Incident. @ the back is the replica of the American soldiers and Filipino guerillas as they (Filipinos ) made their attack.
Sir Rolly, Mayor of Balangiga, Madam Churchill, Father Tax
@ the Mac Arthur landing site in Palo, Leyte.
with some of the participants coming from different regions in the Philippines
with Father Tax and the Balangiga Church in the background
the ever famous San Juanico Bridge connecting Leyte and Samar
The Professor and the M.A. Hist. gang
@ Sto. Niño Shrine, Tacloban, Leyte
Thank you Tacloban, and thanks to Prof. Rolly Borrinaga and family. My gratitude won't stop here.
More pictures are posted @ my friendster account: please click here
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