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The Old Trees Deep in Manila

It’s on Sunday mornings, When I walk toward stores To replenish a week’s supply of grocery items, That I see you. Old surviving trees. The dignified narra, The unfurling dapdap, And...

Maalwan, Nilad’s Babaylan (Spirit Medium)

Nilad, the largest city in the archipelago, is famed for its magnificent port where its namesake white flowers bloom everywhere. Large ships from beyond...

Mother/Magical Creature/Crane

No one believes me when I say I’ve seen a magical creature. But what else do you call someone who grew lives from her own...

Palaspas

He awoke at dawn. Silvery light filtered through the paper-thin fabric of the handkerchief covering his eyes. His limbs were sore from being squeezed...

Labor coalition supports Pimentel SC petition questioning PhilHealth fund transfer to National Treasury

NAGKAISA—the largest labor coalition in the country—expressed support for the petition filed in the Supreme Court by Senator Koko Pimentel, as well as concerned...

Kuya Kazuya: Filipinos’ big brother from Japan

ENDO KAZUYA WAS A 23-YEAR-OLD RISING JUNIOR official in Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) when he and his fellow officers visited the Philippines...

Q&A with Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Endo Kazuya

The Philippines Graphic sat with Ambassador Endo Kazuya who discussed in-depth the political, economic, and military facets of what has been touted as the...

Hidden Sounds of Nature

White, fresh snowfall Its arrival, highly anticipated presents a silence All is absorbed All sounds trapped in all this snow The fluff, the layers have made it All quiet All slow Eventually It is...

Sugar Dreams

She was finally here. Hong Kong. A place that wasn’t in her bucket list, but life had other plans and threw it her way....

TWO FOR PUNGAW (or “melancholy” in Bicolano)

A Filipino Stillness Not the light in Amorsolo’s canvas but the smile that kindles the frame. Not in dreams, where I lose you among crocodiles. Your...