Change

Angela manalang Gloria

I have outgrown them all and one by one

These loves I took so mightily to heart
Before you came: the dolls that overran
My childhood hours and taught me fairy art;
The books I ravished by the censored score
Music that like delirium burned my days
The golden calf I fashioned to adore
When lately I forsook the golden phrase

And thus I shall outgrow this love for you

Sooner or later I shall put away
This jeweled ecstasy for something new
Brand me not fickle on that fatal day
Bereft of change that is my drink and bread
I would not love you now. I would be dead.

Church in the barrio

Ang ermita sa baryo by Magdalena jalandoni

Humble and serene beyond compare

Its door facing the sea
Nipa and cogon thatched and bamboo frame
Painted by the mellow of dawn

Standing there by the mountainside

The door wide open, spacious and peaceful
And hitched on the branch of a dapdap tree
Loosely are its rusty bells.

Inside the sacred image of Christ

Whose sorrowful face induces man to weep
There on his ancient altar He invites
The visitation of adoring birds

Ikaw, ako ug an tubig han sapa

An tubig han sapa

May iya iya man nga ganghaan
Uusa la an paglalagosan
Tumakadto gud pagki-urusa
Ha kabutngaan hiton dagat

Ako in usa nga tubig han sapa

Ikaw man in usa nga tubig han sapa
Usa in nga paglaom nga akon gugunitan
An paglagom nga ikaw ug ako
Magigin usa nga dagat
Ha takna nga magtarapo
Kita- nga mga tubig han sapa

The river water

May each have its own separate passage
Will always find its way in a similar course
Going to that meeting
In the middle of the ocean

I am a river water
You are another river water
A hope, I keep holding om

A Hope that you and i

Will be one ocean
Coming that moment of meeting
Of us- the river waters

The least miracle

Carlos a. angeles

Someday there will be a sudden miracle

Conjured in the potent noon and male hour
And there shall be no news, nor appear in papers
In the only bed in the old house
I lay with my leg broken from a fall
And bathed in my own blood and marrow
We all thought wrongly I might die
And for a time, I could not walk again
It was a sorcerer who limned a fertile cross
Above my wound- then I let fall my crutches
And those in the gallery, upon seeing- knelt
Before the formal triumph of the saint
While my father wept for me who had
The last, least faith of us all

REGION I ILOCOS REGION

Ilocos norte- laoag
Ilocos sur- vigan
La union- san Fernando city
Pangasinan- lingayen
REGION 2 Cagayan Valley Region
Batanes- Basco
Cagayan- Tuguegarao
Isabela- Ilagan
Nueva viscaya- bayombong
Quirino- cabarroguis

REGION 3 Central Luzon

Aurora- baler
Bataan-balanga city
Bulacan- malolos
Pampanga- san Fernando city
Nueva ecija- palayan city
Tarlac- tarlac city
Zambales- iba

REGION 4-A Calabarzon/ Mimaropa

Cavite- trece martirez
Laguna- santa cruz
Batangas- batangas city
Rizal- antipolo
Quezon- lucena
Occidental Mindoro- mamburao
Oriental Mindoro - calapan
Marinduque- boac
Romblonromblon
Palawan- Puerta prinsesa
REGION 5 BICOL REGION

Albay- legazpi
Camarines norte- daet
Camarines sur- pili
Catanduanes- virac
Masbate- Masbate
Sorsogon- Sorsogon city
REGION 6 WESTERN VISAYAS
Aklan- kalibo
Antique- san jose
Roxas city, capiz
Jordan, guimaras
Iloilo city, Iloilo
Bacolod city, negros occidental

Ang ermita sa baryo- Magdalena jalandoni

Tungkung langit and alunsina
Hinilawod

REGION 7 CENTRAL VISAYAS

Tagbilarahan, bohol
Cebu city, cebu
Dumaguete, negros oriental
Siquijor, siquijor
REGION 8 EASTERN VISAYAS
Naval, Biliran
Borongan, eastern samar
Tacloban, leyte
Catarman, northern samar
Maasin, southern leyte
Catbalogan, western samar
REGION 9- Zamboanga peninsula
Zamboanga del norte- dipolog city
Pagadian, Zamboanga del sur
Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay

Region 10
Northern Mindanao

Region 11
Soccksargen

Region 12
Caraga

Region 13
armm

Kapampangan proverbs

1. Matas at mataluctuc masadlac ya pangabaldug- the higher the climb, the harder the fall
2. ing asung macabaluctut butul man e macapulut- a lazy dog will not find even a bone
3. queng maranup alang masias a tinape- no bread is ever hard to a hungry person
4. ing malulumud pataram man calawatan na- a drowning man will catch even a blade
5. e mangaplas ing alang sigat- If there’s pain there must be a wound