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In my own
Mindanao
by Geejay
ArriolaYour streets
are sickly green
as their primeval colors have
faded through tortorous times.
Your walls are rainbow portents
a future written beneath
carvings of bullets and
bombs on grey, brick stones.
Your pubs are rich sounds
of struggle and
complacency unwinding
in tremulous orchestra
to beat the silence
of deaths passing.
Your cars weep like souls
stripsearched.
Your people sing sorrows
of joyous centuries
wiped away.
Your love and warmth are
as deep as the cold
that stings the soul.
Your laughters hurt, your cries
memories
of moving struggles
fought
in my own
MINDANAO. |
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[Geejay Arriola, a Mindanaoan artist wrote this poem while in Belfast, Ireland 1992. You
can visit her website at http://www25.brinkster.com/silverwarrior
]
Other
Poems In This Issue
A Muslim's prayer for peace
by Aminah
Sharief Goling
Abdul on the eve of an ambush
by Said
Sadain, Jr.
Then & Now
by Macario
Tiu
Death On The Tarmac
by Fr. Picx
Picardal
Spirits In The Box
A Short Story
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