Tag Archives: Sulu

Abdul, on the eve of an ambush

Posted on June 30, 2018 by sandstarsblog

Abdul, on the eve of an ambush a rifle rests in my arms for now steel chilling the bones which ache for the children and the wife in my mind and the maddening smell of morning rice as in a … Continue reading →

Posted in book, poetry, politics | Tagged ambush, Ateneo de Manila University Press, jolo, Mindanao, Ricardo de Ungria, Sulu | 13 Comments

mt. tumantangis

Posted on November 30, 2017 by sandstarsblog

mt. tumantangis (from the collection: Mt. Tumantangis and Other Poems on Sulu) she lays open the breast to the sea and crouches low enough to ward off the winds, her brows impose the wisdom of the time harder than the jutting … Continue reading →

Posted in collection: mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, photography, poetry, politics | Tagged conscience, mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, poetry, soldiers, Sulu, warriors | 8 Comments

arrivals

Posted on November 23, 2017 by sandstarsblog

arrivals (from the collection: Mt. Tumantangis and Other Poems on Sulu) the wharf is like the season’s face it marks the time, the coming and the going witness the breeze dive to kiss the expectant waves, or the wind howl … Continue reading →

Posted in collection: mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, photography, poetry, politics | Tagged arrivals, authority, breeze, drones, hometown, justice, law, military presence, mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, naval boats, peace, poem, soldiers, steel, Sulu, waves, wharf, yearning | Leave a comment

the calm

Posted on November 9, 2017 by sandstarsblog

the calm (from the collection: Mt. Tumantangis and Other Poems on Sulu) it haunts the people’s dream of comfort too. the cozy rooms, the furnished halls drive the cold out into the night and into the poor man’s house, it … Continue reading →

Posted in collection: mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, photography, poetry, politics | Tagged boat, calm, lethargy, mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, sea, Simunul Island, soldier, steel, Sulu, wharf | 12 Comments

the waves of sulu

Posted on November 3, 2017 by sandstarsblog

(All photos are courtesy of Harly Limlingan Marcuap of http://www.akrosdayunibers.com) the waves of sulu a boy contemplates the nipa huts beneath the coconut trees as a patch firewoods for the sacrificial pyre and the land heaves beside the waves. … Continue reading →

Posted in collection: mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, photography, poetry | Tagged beach, boat, coconut, collection, Harly Limlingan Marcuap, jolo, mangrove, mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, peek, sea, shores, stilt houses, Sulu, travel advisories, waves, white sand, www.akrosdayunibers.com | 16 Comments

dawn

Posted on October 20, 2017 by sandstarsblog

dawn the causeways rattle under sleepy feet waking to the call to prayer at dawn; winds snake from below the sea as sharp bites to a native reality and the tide gently laps to grace the burdened stilts.

Posted in collection: mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, essay, poetry | Tagged chicken, dawn, egg, glow, Harly Limlingan Marcuap, jolo, moro, sea, stilt houses, Sulu, sunlight, terrain, twigs, University of the Philippines, www.akrosdayunibers.com | 8 Comments

fleeting thoughts of a fevered lover

Posted on October 13, 2017 by sandstarsblog

fleeting thoughts of a fevered lover now the gurgling of peace in confused currents of a soft-silvered stream that runs under my pillow is joined by the stringed reflection of your guitar — a heartfelt tone of some moonbeam lights … Continue reading →

Posted in collection: mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, poetry | Tagged fleeting, Focus Philippines Magazine, jolo-caust, Mindanews, mt. tumantangis and other poems on sulu, myths, peace, Sulu | Leave a comment

Circuitry

Posted on September 9, 2017 by sandstarsblog

Circuitry The electric circuitry paces An environmental complex even as The swinging of one’s cradle Accelerates to and fro And to and fro: Finally dislodges me.

Posted in about me, collection: untitled (1976), essay, information technology, poetry, politics, science & technology | Tagged blogging, circuitry, computer, crescendo, Diliman, electrical, engineering, Focus Philippines Magazine, homesteading, identity, jolo, Kerima Polotan-Tuvera, Manila, martial law, Mindanews, philippines, poetry, Quezon City, Said Sadain, secessionist, Southern Mindanao, Sulu, technology, University of the Philippines, wiring, WordPress, writing, Zamboanga | 1 Comment

Recite!

Posted on August 19, 2017 by sandstarsblog

If my memory still serves me right, back in kindergarten, we were taught a rhyme that went like this: “…away with coffee, away with tea, milk, milk come to me!…” At home I was however reciting — nay, more like … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, essay, general, poetry | Tagged coffee, hometown, jolo, kahawa sug, kindergarten, milk, recite, rhymes, Sulu, tea, tinapay | 3 Comments

This is not like it, the visions

Posted on April 13, 2017 by sandstarsblog

This is not like it, the visions of a gradeschooler who too willingly would have traded for a twitching butterfly his balding, if not for the tonic, schoolmaster: