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A still point (For Cirilo F. Bautista, Paalam, Toti) by Albert B. Casuga

  Sense and notion meld where sound is sight, and stillness is moving. It completes an oxymoron for the day: What crack of thunder and flash of lightning would slice this mid-morning sky when the delicate petal, small and white, finally reaches the black, soggy, and grass-mottled ground? Closer to some still point, on mid-day, I gulp...

When a writer dies by Ramil Digal Gulle

when a writer dies maybe the silence grows just that bit longer   or darkness fattens one globule more as it turns in its sleep, eyes closed yet tearing   up in happiness moist smile lifting just enough to show just a crack, of sharky teeth   i dream of that some of the time: think each corpse, mentor or friend, is...

Going Nova by Alma Anonas-Carpio

  They say you slipped away In the glorious morning sun. Yet even the quietest leave-taking Is beyond you who are now purest light.   All that you held Barely contained Burst forth in fire Consuming all tears.   Each word crafted Shines forth brighter than stars. Each image holds itself aloft With no effort at all:   Masterfully...

Losing Cirilo by Joel Pablo Salud

  *My humble tribute to Poet and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista   nothing comes easy nothing by way of gain or loss, neither in this life nor the next, or that belligerent other; all comes with a price silence, to some, weeping to others; what a scary thought to be...

Poems by Cirilo F. Bautista

  Exile By: Cirilo F. Bautista I want to write about life and deathlessness and the sea, the rampage and calm and full flow of blood and bread   on cutting board, each in its own time to be tallied against the conscious duties of government full of its   own importance,...

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA: A Glimpse (An homage to a National Artist for Literature, 2014) by Radney Ranario

What to make of him, I do not know really. Maybe, he is all that I do not think and none that I do. Maybe not. Or who knows? He is broad of forehead and with small, round eyes that are at once bold...

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