Melanesian Arts Festival
...We wore our meri blouses
And on stilts built our houses…
We carried our bilums so beautiful
And custom dressings so very colourful.
We wore our island dresses
And displayed our art in richness...
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Categories:
sulus, art,
Form: Verse
Please Rise
...I look upon the sky
Now the sky is crying
No tears of sorrow
Then comes the light
Sulus please rise....
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Categories:
sulus, care, caregiving, change, character,
Form: Free verse
Jabidah Peace Garden
...Who died are the Sulus
not the so called Moros
They were the recruits
Were killed when refused
Sabah were to invade
They refused to take orders
Sacrificed not to kill brothers
Jabidah Massac...
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Categories:
sulus, age, angst, appreciation, art,
Form: Bio
Moros Filipinos
...Before,
people are not Filipinos and Moros.
They're Mindanaons and Sulus.
Now they are being hid by two levels:
Filipinos and Moros.
The old names would be buried
forever if not rescued....
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Categories:
sulus, absence, abuse, addiction, analogy,
Form: Ballad
Freedom and Independence!
...Freedom!
Why to Sulu you cannot grant?
Independence!
To Sulu you don’t mind!
Freedom!
Sulus cried for once!
Independence!
Sulus need to embrace then…
Freedom!
Until this shall not achie...
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Categories:
sulus, history
Form: Narrative