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Lourd De Veyra

Lourd de Veyra has published four collections of poetry, six books of essays, and a novel. He currently works as a broadcast journalist for TV5, and on weekends plays noisy punk metal guitar for the band Kapitan Kulam.

Poetry

TWO POEMS

KUNG FU POEM You killed my master In syllables two seconds out of synch with the lips,while a crooked finger points back to himself, vengeance smoldering in...

January 16, 2023

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Born of the Earth

We were all once born of the earth— keeper of her breath, kin to root and river, to feather and fur, to the anito, the diwata, and the taw’t talun, spirits who dwell around us. But that was before conquest, before the forgetting. The invaders came with the sword and the cross, with maps and muskets, naming what was never nameless, claiming...

Someone Else Will Help

Is the goodness of a man determined by the purity of his intentions or by the deeds he brings into the world? And what, then, of the man who stands idle, neither acting nor choosing? Some claim that those who are caught between the forces of good...

A Triangle of Triangles

She's a great little housewifeThough sometimes she talks like a foolBut she helps at the store in the holiday rushAnd she picks up the kids after schoolAnd she puts down the phone when her husband comes homeAnd she changes from mother to wife'Til she feels the words...

Anatomy of a repeating scandal: Lessons in investigating a failed 1926 public works project

When there is no Planet B, how do you get to point C?

El Colegio De San Ildefonso presents “The Acapulco–Manila Galleon: We Are the Pacific: The World That Emerged From The Tropics”

Hymen, oh Hyménée!: Juan Luna’s love in a time of lunacy

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Lourd De Veyra

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Born of the Earth

Someone Else Will Help

A Triangle of Triangles