Shout out

Hagad kan sakong mga barkada na si Ben Milano, Jimmy Veneracion asin Toots Perez, Del Esguera, Yenti Mendel asin Luz Equipado iyo na mag-publikar pa ako nin mga English poems o rawit dawit na guibo kan dekada 60-70 kan ako solterito pa na dedicado sa mga inspirasyon kan panahon.

Mapa-onra ako sa saindang request and dedication garo sa radio program ko kan panahon.

Si Ben Milano pigbabansagan na Citizen of the World pero Pilipino pa man daa siya; si Jim Veneracion enot na editor kan famusong Maogmang Lugar magazine na nagpublikar nin mga tula, rawit-dawit asin Bicol poems kadto; asin si Toots Perez iyo an sakong kaklase na aram an gabos kaya naguin amigo intimo asin fraternity brother ni Manny asin Cynthia Villar.

Si Mading Del na nasa Cavite na ngonyan dati konektado sa NBI Training Center, si Yenti o Jo Roma ka batch ko sa high school, kaklase sa UNC asin agom nin taga Milaor nasa California na ngonyan asin si Luz kainan ko sa Nueva Caceres publication agom nan in sarong military na nasa Cavite man ngonyan.

Enoton ko an may titulong DINA:

Deeply set In beauty within beauty Nurtured in the farlands Across the golden sea.

An masunod espesyal ta nakasingit ini sa enot kong libro na Ini An Totoo kan nagtalikod na taon. Panahon ini kan alang an sakong isip alagad nagkakalayo kontra sa mga gurangan, kontra sa gobyerno asin mga nanunungdan: My mind is a Pile of Dry Twigs.

My Mind is a Pile of Dry Twigs

My mind is a pile of dry twigs

Afire---staring at the sun;

It was set a fire by the Unmoving Traveller

To warm Him up sometimes

On His way from Eternity to Eternity.

My mind was a file of dry twigs

Now it’s wet and scattered around;

Cruel smoke hovers around the place---

Smoke that fades in the wilderness,

Smoke that renders me useless.

My mind is a pile of dry twigs

Again--- now that my smoke

Has surrendered to the sun

And Lo! He picks me up with sympathy

As He returns to Eternity from Eternity.

--Agie Green and Gold UPLB 1967

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No Conforme. Ini an tono kan mga surat ko kaidto. Chaff and Grains, Anti-climactic o Contra Pelo.

Ining ultimo dedicado para sako kan sarong amiga sa UNC: You Are ni FXR.

E.G.V. You Are

An ember

Glowing amid the

Roaring sea-waves

Shimmering to be born

Upon a mysterious dawn

To ascend in the calm

Rays of an incantation:

The searing madness

Of my reality.

F.X.R.

Sana napa-onrahan ko an saindong request and dedication.

Shout out ini.