Long Sug Poems

Oh well I got an angry email to begin my day
Because of my last post on the Jabidah thing yesterday
Galit sa akin but greeted me with Assalamu alaykum.
And kung personal Moro friends ko naman ito...

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I saw old images of different views of Ho Lang Island
The stone towers built by Spanish still standing erect
I felt nostalgic to look at the past of this island
It was dubbed as a "no man's...

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Salam, how are you there?
Wassalam, good, Alhamdulillah
How about the issue in Sabah
Nothing to worry
I am worried because you are my friend
I am okay; just want to know your opinion
No probs, what do you think of...

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Note: "How can there have been such strife in a Morlde` filled with beautiful Music; &
how could there have been beautiful Music such in a Morlde` filled with strife?"  -Soupy 
Sales, 2012.

The 12 Panes...

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Die Lewens gang 

So dwaal ek rond in die lewens gang 
vol van verlange en oral teen di mure 
hang potrete van herineringe. 

Die tyd het geloop sy eie loop 
geloop. Hy het ons mee...

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Solidarity is forever
Solidarity is forever
Solidarity is forever
We shall always fight for our right

What a great chorus they always sing! 
Yet in their hearts
Their belly they tend to save
Not for those they guise to help

If not,...

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Today is Tuesday, 19 March, 2013
36th days, after some armed men from Sulu archipelago
spotted in Tandu Wau, Lahad Datu.
This caused the bloodshed between Muslim brethren.
I am still monitoring the sad stories happened to our new...

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Let's opinion be different so there is story
I do not like to air criticism
I just only like to ask
And the question itself will be criticism
Criticism on people who were asked
If to ask would be more...

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By the high powered guns they were rowed
their bodies slain in the peak of the clouds
but their spirit remained unclothed
they were armed with honor and were proud

In the warfare never they failed
never in their hearts...

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What is Layag Sug? 
How come you're not answering?
Why are you asking?
For me to know
Why, isn’t it a bully to me?
No. I'm just plainly asking.
Why is it so hard for you to answer?
I don’t know...

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A poet's contest with a twist
Use the words in this long list
Author's puzzle - mental schism
Solved by quoting pearls of wisdom

Writing verse with rough iambi
Valentines the namby-pamby

Sugar cane is often bitter
Sweet instead banana fritter

Shellfish debt...

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What I am doing is not 
blind idealism as you call it.
It’s a just cause for my homeland. 
It is a fight for the sake of those I love: 
my children, grandchildren, parents, siblings
neighbours, my...

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You do not bluff! 
Your country is pleasing. 
Not sure yet if tears will not drops. 
I'm so strong if you're evil. 
You're arresting me, I am stuffed. 
Not yet enough grudge you say conflict....

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I’ll be back, I am flying
I will finish that book soon, as long I will stick to it
I will pray for me, arranging the thought, I wanted to make it a novel
So it will flourish...

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The truth there was a war.
And the truth there is injustice.
There is oppression.

There are people, who wanted to regain
their homeland taken from them,
the homeland that became the backyard
of the oppressors, for there is truth in...

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Education is life.
I want it but I can't.
It is my need.
Alternative learning I did.
I am called immigrant.
Oftentimes stateless.
I am trapped of nation-state.
When it was borderless.
Now in a boundary.
In history only we exist.
I am never free.
Never...

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Did we ever see a baby crying?
If not, ask mom and dad
Thirsty, hungry baby crying
Do we understand why?

Glad, we only happy to see
Glad to see others frustrations
Apparently created no eyes care
No one that love to...

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We are Tausug Nation
Defending independence
Free from the enemies
Stood not to get oppressed

Our Nation ruled
Of the country’s independence
Never conquered from then
We shall develop our land

Our country, nation is known
Home of courageous person
Bound only in one faith
Never...

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Walking alone is deep.
I want to savour this nature.
I imagined this colonial structure. 

How do people live those times?
I don't mind of being under colony.
But I would fight not to be under tyranny. 

Suluk is...

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I have not seen this sea, which you 
speak of so fondly every once in a while.

but I'd hear the slowed-down breathing,
the long pause
when you tell stories of old people 
that died, of brave men...

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Listen!
Ears of the world, listen to me!
I am speaking from this shore
If you don’t listen, just open your heart
If you have your eyes, look at me!

Listen!
I suppose to fill my future, listen to me!
What I...

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Tranquility and peace
the two magical words
these come across blinking 
my mind and heart are talking.

I cannot see it physically
but I can sense its presence
the crowd around me justified
when I look at the window.

I sat near...

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There are dark elements
in the humanity died and ends
in a silver palace of lights
in secrecy of hearts.

Love is a means forward
takes a person in a journey onward
Feeling the legacy of colonials
the colonized changing hearts.

Comes in...

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I walked the street
Seen one boy sleeping
No blanket even covered
But he has the wide space
The least he love his bed
His waxed cardboard carton

The widest tete-a-tete the feet
People walking eyes are with him
If that is his...

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The people who defend their pride
From the war they are creative
That creativity would be their grave
That is the grave of realism.

When the stars hate the moons
they tend to fight each other as goons
they want to...

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