ARS POETICA

Remembrance

by Anthony Argota

I found a girl smilin'

Smiling bad on me;

Her lips were of centerfold

Her eyes of sanctity;
And hair so long, as dark as night,

And pretty nose had she.

And as she kept on smiling

I couldn't hold my sight,

The heart of mine, no words could tell

To which I feel it might;

I kissed her once, I kissed her twice,

Her hands were holding tight.

Then came a time of changes

I couldn't understand

She uttered me unspoken words,

And send them by the hand,

My head were filled with what's and

why's

Rememb'ring things I've planned.

But this girl kept on smiling

Oh! How true could this be,

She never bid goodbye nor said

I'll be back, wait for me;

For she has found an alluring guy,

And never came back she.

And all the gates of heaven,

Surrounded by a fire;

On part of me is bloodless wound,

For goddess hears my cry,

And I shall not, oh I shall not!

Forget her 'till I die.

Indian Passing

by Clifford Marshal Ablaza

Time is all we must let go

And all that we have known;

The leaves' caress that keep us warm

As they fall and touch the stones,

Where the longing hours start to roam

When the horizon greets the dawn

Of pale blue hope that lies upon

Our dream of finding home.

In discovering songs that are left un-

sung

That the seasons must have undone,

In the quiet gush of the monsoon,

We shift with the world's demands-

Where we, as warriors, have been

dancing on

Where our gardens have been sown

We will soon feel that one by one

Everything we have ever planned

Has come.

Time is all that we have known

And all we must let go;

To embrace the sadness of the sun

As it sets in late afternoons,

To rest our tired and trembling hands

After each heavy work is done,

When the coldest evenings have begun,

Where the western winds have blown

We must face the fire that once belonged

To the years we have now outgrown,

And as we feel the waning of the moon

Everything we have ever known will be gone.