Friday, August 24, 2012

Ode To El Nio

So I wrote this poem back in 1997 when I was in school the third year for our school newspaper. I was very inspired by John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn, in which I have emulated the style of this poem. I used the old Anglo-American words to give a classic touch, as well as to remind us of Vikings and Angleland Deutschland, a time when the sound of the lute is a national anthem. I also used some characters from Greek mythology for the purpose of presenting a lot of metaphors and personifications. I must admit, it is very difficult to understand in order to suggest that it is necessary to have a dictionary beside you as you read this.

The poem basically discussed the good effects of the El Niño phenomenon in the Philippines in 1997. It will not be called an ode, if you do not address the positive and good things! Through this poem, I gave another to the negative effects of this phenomenon. There is more than the sweat is removed, we have the experience of thirst and the heat we are suffering.

This poem was never published on our school newspaper because of its familiar wording and its meaning incomprehensible. Apparently, it was not suitable for high school students to read. Luckily, it was noted in North America. The poem was selected as a semi-finalist in the North American Open Poetry Contest, which took place in the final race last winter of 1998. It has also been published in the National Library of Poetry volume hardback edition of the classic quality, Dawn of Silence, in January 1999. The poem did not say was only presented in the press, but also in word. It was recorded in a cassette, The Sound of Poetry, in which beautiful baroque music and a brief commentary on the poem served as a prelude to the skill selected. Originally, this poem was composed of 40 lines, but because of contest rules and regulations, I had cut up to 20 lines. So far, this is the most high-end poetry I've ever written.


Ode to El Niño
by Maranan Siyangbigay Jocell

That number could e'er you a canon beck
Gypsies, atheists failed dragging their tarot
Of an accident, a centaur, a man and a beast
Hail! Your little baby is born.

Anglophobic he was!
Aye! Aye! Aye!
Together wi 'Hephaestus, Nereo killed, vilified Ganga
Poseidon no longer your choice, but to taste could trident
Lo! Naiadi although tramp limping after a sloth
In more than three buttons, blew horns against your mother.

Eastern Doth drank potion made yours?
Thinking opened e'ry knocking on the door,
It picked hides swirls around the courtyard,
Three times a day, a month or two
Prosaic, consciousness is still holding!

As noble as a king, as bold as a knight
A word in the mouth zone bestrewed
Gin does not touch the morning calm,
It would be the blood is water? It would flower thistles?
Tigers would be sick all right? It would be empty heads to fill?

Thursday, August 23, 2012

A candle

I wrote this poem so far back to 1995 when I was in school the first year for our school newspaper. As a freshman, I was really challenged to overcome the results of the "greatest." This poem is very special to me because it is the product of my desire to do greater things than what the elderly can do. Poetry that conveys not just the little things are bright and beautiful, quite useful. Its meaning is universal and multi-dimensional.

I've been using a basic style in writing this poem. I looked rhyme and simple language. To add a little touch, I personally candle. Basically, the whole poem is a dialogue between the reader and the candle. The setting is in Bethlehem where Jesus was born child. It 'was the first Christmas, however, is not clearly said. Context clues that I gave to say.

Because of its simplicity, poetry was published in our newspaper and on our school yearbook. The poem was published in hardback edition volume Quill Books, A Time To Be Free, last 1998 in Harlingen, Texas.

A candle
by Maranan Siyangbigay Jocell


O little candle in the night!,
burning bright in the room!
His head bowed humbly,
pointing back and forth so slowly

Look out the window brick!
See shooting stars below!
See the moon and the brightness lasting!
Feel the Night and her chilling cold!

You are comparably smaller,
those decorative celestial wonders
How could you do the dark,
turned out to be the brightest?

Why you have to sacrifice,
yourself so scarce that enough?
If you are enough for the night,
to make the room very bright?

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

A Pacific A Cappella

The page was blank when it came to me
But with white spaces in the blanks

And I felt the need to touch the page
With the shape of forms and shades of colors

Or was I - I'm not quite sure
Nothing is certain - but had been touched

With the gray and green cubes and spheres
Or green and purple cubes and spheres

Or, purple and red cubes and spheres
No! - Red and yellow cubes and spheres

The vivid colors drifted for the whole page
Radiated and so vivid that touched me

And I thought - I was there
But I was here in the page

Kidnapped by the play of empty spaces
No! - Maybe I'm here

But I was there on the page
Kidnapped by the play of empty spaces


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Sunday, July 29, 2012

The Wanderer a mountain called Lleb

Alone - the world - has traveled
Via steps of rock and wood hug
The wind kissed him and then whispered:
Follow our amulet and use it only once
... When it comes obstacle.

And a lake - he was head
And stabbed her toes on the deck lily
The water stopped and said:
Look and see
A moment of light inside of me
Take it and walked on the road.

Then - in a shallow swamp - continued
Where the wild bulls walked to find a mate
But before a horn was nailed
He pulled out his amulet - and then said:
Sorry but I have to go bull
I remember you and your swamp
While on the road ...

And he knew ...
The wind kiss
... It was written:
journeys can be smooth
journeys can be tough
Just find your way ...

... Soon it will be dark.

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Before the last petal Falls

I saved face time

slowly becomes a face of a stranger

heart might be linked with my

beats the sharpest spear in my heart

long ago, never occurred to me these thoughts

but as the leaves fall slowly becomes part of reality

I never seal between the neck

nor its enclosed within my reach

I was too liberal, now all I wanted was to go back in time

I am not a god, I have no power

to deny all these scruples

I love her, cared for her as delicately as I would like a rose

but she grew thorns

that it was difficult for me to come close

Is it sad but true

The link that we no longer

Very high and I dared to love her

also risked a life-thousandth

won a series of mountains

but I believe that what is between us is now exhausted

is not what it was yesterday

Now I'm a nobody compared to who I was before her

I'm trying to win her back even if

and be the dirt road and misty

She is worth all the pain

worth all the risks

not because she would have done the same thing

not because she completes

not because it was my wonderwall

not because she's one of us

but simply because of a right meaningless by time

a reason which has slipped from many languages

rarely a reason we believe in

guys, I love you

Yes, love

I love her like a sister I never had

I loved and still love

and even if fate and the world may doubt

my love for you is ashamed at all

because the love of her I'll hold

I will fight, I fight by hook or by crook

before the last petal falls ..

Friday, July 27, 2012

Dreamland

My eyes are squinty

while the tears fall on my face ..

The inages my refuge is now blurred

Swirling around me so fast

I could not help but stumble

and indulge in my comfort zone

I struggle between consciousness and unconsciousness

As the dark trying constantly to me

towards a world where the pain is never known

and my whole being, rested

preparing for another trip, another walk

but then the picture looked vaguely on my senses

and darkness was dominated

Slowly, the image became a living

I saw a familiar face

someone you see everyday

Someone hated me for ruining my dream

I got out of bed, grabbed my green notebook

and began to do his homework TLE

Thursday, July 26, 2012

An Warior

I am a warrior
but as Arthur and his Knights
I fight for a cause
Not only for freedom, though freedom can be
I have no sword or armor
Although I have my stuff for my battles
I never had enough of them
which sometimes causes my loses

I'm my own boss and my follower
I am the lone rider of my army
the solitary believer of my principles
But I can be a warrior, but I'm only human
be breathed with a life
Which turned to be a blessing and a curse
Although I explicitly force
My interiors are weak
my heart is broken
and my soul is fragile

I'm waving a white flag
But I can not understand
Arrows rain my world as my shield weakens
All I wanted was to succumb to oblivion

And tonight, as the tears fall on my face
let the sky cry with me
Let every cold that I feel inside
Make them understand things that fight for ..
Let the rain fall and wash away my tears
Let me know the existence of rainbows ...
Help me remember that I am a warrior
in this battlefield called life ...