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Ode to Tapuy

...Come! Bring forth the jar that for months had stood
Patiently undisturbed in the shadow!
Lift its lid, remove the leaves that serve as hood
And help age the wine that’s about to flow.
Cat...

Categories: cordillera, celebration, culture, drink, wine,
Form: Ode

A Journey Through the Mountain's Majesty

...Dawn's Embrace:
Adret: Dawn paints the face of giants,
Where sunlight warms and shadows dance.
Aiguille: Fingers pierce the azure sky,
A challenge whispered, sharp and high.

Earth's Whispers: ...

Categories: cordillera, adventure, appreciation, mountains, sunshine,
Form: Ode

Pearl of the Orient

...Surrounded by tranquil turquoise waters,
Guarded on sides by oceans three,
In the east by the Pacific,
On the south by the Celebes Sea,
And on the west by the south China Sea, 
There...

Categories: cordillera, beautiful, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Scarlet

...Scarlet heart, smile for me now or never 
The thought of you brings me scarlet fever 
Your red pigment reminds me of saccharine caress 
Your orange tinge reminisces sour-sweet embrace 

Your pla...

Categories: cordillera, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

The World, God And Love

...World
One
And all
Blessed and kind
Nature and souls bind
Clings, remain soft but not fragile
In God's hands, no strong marbles clutches the ground ductile
No boulders can silence the caves' ec...

Categories: cordillera, god, love, world,
Form: Fibonacci

Igorot Me

...I-ndigenous inhabitants/people 
G-enuinely 
O-ccupying the mountainous 
R-ealm that was 
O-fficially 
T-ransformed into sublime scenery.

M-y 
E-xclusive/evolutionary pedigree

For my IP ro...

Categories: cordillera, tribute,
Form: Acrostic

Igorots

...I-ndigenous inhabitants/people 
G-enuinely 
O-ccupying the mountainous 
R-ealm that was 
O-fficially 
T-ransformed into
S-ublime scenery.


For my IP roots from the mountain city and provinc...

Categories: cordillera, tribute,
Form: Acrostic

Country Music

...Chants echoing home bliss
Celestial songs of heart
Commending folks’ good times
Clear through guitar rhythm
Celebrating triumph
Clarion for me to hum:
“Cordillera*, you're God**-blest.”...

Categories: cordillera, appreciation, christian, god, guitar,
Form: Pleiades

Tropic of Capricorn

...as if the great expanse collapsed
eclipsing hearthstones
amid the cordillera
where sun begins to beg
her true name

life stops alongside the eucalyptus 
and the words warm
drippin...

Categories: cordillera, fire, heart, sun,
Form: Romanticism

Blessed Tribal Culture

...Blessed by God as a full-blooded Filipina
I’m endowed with great cultural heritage of Asia
Distinctively that of the Benguet “Kankana-ey” tribe of the Cordillera
Enriching my country, the ...

Categories: cordillera, appreciation, blessing, environment, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Viva La Cordillera De Los Andes By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan

...Viva la Cordillera de los Andes by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

       Long Live! The Andes Mountain Range!

	I’m seized with a mad rage to yell
	long live the Andes Mountain Ran...

Categories: cordillera, art, crazy, hilarious, irony,
Form: Free verse

Wounded Soldiers Returned From Iraq

...-Thinking of Iraq Ware Veterans on Veterans Day-

The day after the terrorists attacked our country, I joined the military and was deployed to Iraq. I fought in the desert far away from my sweet ho...

Categories: cordillera, hero, veterans day,
Form: Epic

Reaching the Peak

...Here I am again hiking near a mountaintop
as the aroma of hibiscus reminds me
of my charmed youth, of a serenity the winds
cannot contain. As I reach its mid- peak,
my breath spills o...

Categories: cordillera, journey, memory, mountains,
Form: Free verse