217.
My 33rd Leaf
Obtained thee at noon
When lunch was so soon
We step upon it
Toes it can meet
A “carabao grass”
I'm with First Sectors
Four village neighbors
Whose dress were all red
We're under a shed
All Dumaraonons
First day of August
It's lunch time almost
Eleven thirty
It was so sunny
While Gov. was speaking
Inside a large tent
Where I sat and bent
Dumarao Central
School Playground Oval
Right side facing stage
Behold Opening
Fiesta happening
A colorful one
Everyone has fun
Rejoice, Dumarao!
-08/01/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
118.
Seedling on Earth
Then it has fallen
Now it was sunken
Unmoved like bedridden
Enchained and sullen
During its loneliness
In this somber place
Life found a space
The seed experienced solace
Downwards creep the roots
Upwards grow the shoots
Alongside carabao boots
Hope not to be crushed by coots.
-04/23/2012
(Dumarao)
*for Agri. poem in Salingsing Issue of 1st Sem., AY 2011-12
76.
The Sort of Pet I am to Thee
Consider that I'm not a pest
As I am subject to thy behest
Perhaps I'm a rooster
Who wakes up earlier
To tell my master
I'm ahead him/her
Perhaps I'm a cat
Who incurs my wrath
On every destructive rat
In my keeper's hut
Perhaps I'm a canine
Who barks even past nine
When someone crosses the line
I can even break a spine
Perhaps I'm a pig
Who just lay fat and big
Can't even do a graceful jig
Only comfort it wants to dig
Perhaps I'm a carabao
Friend of iron plow
Machine for more than just an hour
Works with even humble bow.
If I'm all or none above
I hope to me you have some love.
-11/29/2011
(Dumarao)
*confused about career disposition
47.
My 5th Leaf
Plucked thee while sitting
While Mayor speaking
Unlike the first four
You're not for décor
Lo! “Carabao Grass”?
CapSU family
And unknown to me
Crowd – far and near
Cluster – there and here
Fiesta spectators
PM August One
Start of feast on town
There's not enough sun
Not hot, not cold – fine
Mayor gives message
Parade to playground
Crowds and sounds around
Audience view – right side
Itchy grasses side
Kneel and Indian seat
It was eight years past
Since I was there last
Take part Padagyaw
Rejoice Dumarao
Our Lady of Snows!
-08/01/2011
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
A politician went to an old man to ask for votes
Asked to hold 1000 pesos.
Father grandpa said, 'Son, I don't want money.
But if you want votes, buy me a carabao.'
The politician wanted votes. He came out to buy a carabao.
Instead he goes somewhere else.
He didn't get a carabao for less than 40000 pesos.
He came back to Father grandpa saying,
'No carabao less than 40000 pesos that's why I'll just give you 1000.'
Father grandpa said, 'Son, don't be embarrassed anymore.'
'In your eyes, my value is less than a carabao,
How can I sell for 1000, when the carabao is not sold for 40000.'
Wake up voter, wake up your worth
Those people who ruin their family's future are worth a few pesos.
Grasses are herbs
If you boil grass with ginger
It can cure back pains,
Toothache, kidney problem
Stomachache and cleanses toxins
We have here grass like carabao grass
We use this to cure such mention above
My cat eat the young leaves of this grass
Afterwards, my cat vomited something fluid
Then, my cat have peace after that.
CARABAO SEMIS
Middlesbrough,
They are very dull
So, the final is sure.
Though trophy unsure
Cos Liverpool will score.5
ChelseaFC might cry sore.
I hope we hit 'em wit a four.
This climax screams encore...
Chelsea, please make us proud,
So as to shine among the crowd.¹°
¤VICK MANUEL POETRY {VMP}
FORM: Rhymes
Copyright ©?21st December 2023.
M-ist and haze Wednesday
A-re both nowhere in view;
E-arly January twenty-first is far away from blue.
M-orn has just broken,
E-vening shadows vanish;
N-ight chill disappears,
D-ark raindrops diminish.
E-xcitement is truly brought by the farm and the plow;
Z-estfully ride the cart drawn by the carabao.
That Carabao advert grabs the screen
one jumps through many hoops to just log out
I know not what ad may really mean
but something so obrtrusive I'll live without.
BALIKBAYAN
Six months away to travel
Home to a nostalgic place
Where, once more, I'd be able to capture
The free things:
Mountains, pristine rivers, rice fields, fresh air, etc
My relatives packing all sorts
Used clothing, spam, corned beef, Vienna sausage
Coffee, coffee mates, chocolates, candies
As if those items were not availabe
In any stores except United States.
My childhood I mirror
Daydreaming in the middle of the ricefield
Pulling strings of scarecrows
Washing clothes in the running river
Drying them under the sun.
My childhood brings me back
Climbing guava tree in the backyard
Riding a carabao was a delight
Watching a river gorge
Was a wonder and awe!
I have gone too far.
Now, I am a Balikbayan!
With big boxes in a row
Fascinating pasalubong to everyone
In return
Happy smiles I've got!
Meanings:
Balikbayan -----Overseas Filipino Workers
Pasalubong----a present or a gift
Carabao--------water buffalo
knee-deep in flowing verdant grass,
near the creek beside
the hill,
carabao slowly feeds on freedom,
leisurely roams
at will.
on its massive back, white egret,
so delicately
slow-dances,
the feathers of its slender neck
the morning breeze
romances!
Knee-deep in flowing, verdant grass
near the creek beside
the hill,
a black carabao feeds on freedom,
leisurely roams
at will.
On its massive back, a delicate,
white egret
slow-dances,
the feathers of its slender neck
the morning breeze
romances!
to think of granddad is to relish memories
of summer days and nights in his farm by a creek,
near a hidden, rainbow-haloed waterfall.
there, before I learned to tie my shoelace,
he taught me how to fish, to catch crabs
and shrimps under mossy rocks,
and make a kite, fly it while astride a carabao,
whistle at the wind, coax it to lift higher,
nearer the clouds that jewel of my string;
taught me to play and sing with a ukelele,
to say age-old prayers at the darkening dusk,
and listen to ancestral poems at dawn.
at summer's end, our carefree whistling, jokes,
laughter, and hike to the station were enough,
for indeed, to walk with my granddad
... was to hear the dirt road laugh !
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