Feeling makatha day

Here are some nice poems i found in the web (all are from http://www.sushidog.com/bpss/main.htm)



FIVE MATH POEMS
by Eileen Tupaz

soulmates

we are all of us
nonsingular creatures
whose identities
must be affirmed
before our inverses
can be found

conformity

why must life
be a diagonal matrix?
where every other path
that deviates from the main
is an unacceptable
- zero

SOLEDAD

by Angela Manalang Gloria

It was a sacrilege, the neighbors cried,
The way she shattered every mullioned pane
To let a firebrand in. They tried in vain
To understand how one so carved from pride
And glassed in dream could have so flung aside
Her graven days, or why she dared profane
The bread and wine of life for some insane
Moment with him. The scandal never died.

But no one guessed that loveliness would claim
Her soul's cathedral burned by his desires
Or that he left her aureoled in flame…
And seeing nothing but her blackened spires,
The town condemned this girl who loved too well
and found her heaven in the depths of hell.

THEY SAY FILIPINA IS ANOTHER NAME
FOR MAID
by Luisa A. Igloria

Our Overseas Contract Workers are the new heroes
of the Philippines --Fidel V. Ramos

Even on their day off, the army
ponders the different ways
to share strength in the many
lands of the enemy, abroad
where they are known
by only one
name.

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i only got portions of the poems except for soledad