Never before released elsewhere, WELCOME to the world premiere of Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's How People Respond to Them, Yet Know Them Not, a collection of never-before-published-anywhere-else pieces and
the sixth online book of poems to be released by a Filipino author!


Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's
How People Respond to Them,
Yet Know Them Not

 


 
 

How People Respond To Them, Yet Know Them Not: Poems

Published 2004
by Banana-Cue Books, Publisher
179 D.M. Morales Street, Lolomboy Barrio
Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan Province
3018 Philippines

Copyright © 2004 Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra
 
 

All rights reserved. Readers are welcome to view, save, file and print out single copies of this work for their personal use. No reproduction, display, performance, multiple copy, transmission or distribution of this work, or any excerpt, adaptation, abridgement or translation of same, may be made without written permission from Banana-Cue Books, Publisher. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this work will be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.


to my brothers and sisters
 

Acknowledgment. The first five poems in this online book first appeared in the Literati Magazine (a now-defunct US-based literary e-zine), Issue No. 2, Winter 2004-05.

 

1. A gun

Wan Sunday (or, Running Into A Beach-Loving Poet In A Popular Chinese-Filipino Supermarket Within A Mall)

You

Interior Decoration

A Well-Off Neighbor's Sunday

Blood The Color of Bruise

Wicker Sex

A Poem Forgiving The American Who Called Jesus, Nazareth's Everyman, While Shaking An Impatient Head

Antique Church Weding

Background, Foreground Racket

A Catholic Divorce

Sorry

A Churchbell Buddhism

Walk In The Wind

Life After Death

Blameless Theory

The Pro-Minority Majority

Blind Justice

In Search of Better Religions

Heart Disease
 
 

2. Trained to smell

A Self-Critical Crab Cringes

Araw ng Parangal, Pangaral

Epiphanies

Professor Pacifism's Pupils  (Unavailable)

Sniffers

Industry of Words

(UNDER CONSTRUCTION FROM THIS POINT DOWN EXCEPT "That Oxymoron, Conventional Wisdom," "De-Crystallization," "Training Prized Young Mujahedins," "Escape from Planet Sago," "How People Respond To Them Yet Know Them Not," "Five-Metaphor Offensive," and "ABOUT THE POET" AT THE BOTTOM)

Equatorial Eden

Cellophane World: A Tribute to Poets

Audio-Video World: Tribute to Soul Singers
 
 

3. Cause of effects

Practical Feng Shui

No Holier Than Thou

Seven Quatrains and a Couplet

Hen's Crow

Son

Caesar's Good-Looking Salad

Abandoned Ship

That Oxymoron, Conventional Wisdom  (Available)

De-crystallization  (Available)

Training Prized Young Mujahedins  (Available)

Escape from Planet Sago  (Available)

Lunar Attack

How People Respond to Them, Yet Know Them Not  (Available)

Five-Metaphor Offensive  (Available)

Scarlet Badge of Courage

Stupid Oops

Law of Territorial Pissings

First and Last Date

Split-Level

The Poor Visit a Mausoleum

Prayer to my Judge/Jury/Dependent In Law

The Outlaw
 
 

> ABOUT THE POET  (Available)

 
 
 
 
 


Copyright © 2004 Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra. All rights reserved. Readers are welcome to view, save, file and print out single copies of thiswebpage and the poems linked to for their personal use. No reproduction, display, performance, multiple copy, transmission, or distribution of the works herein, or any excerpt, adaptation, abridgment or translation of same, may be made without written permission from the author. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this work will be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

 

-- this online book of poems was launched August, 2004

 



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