Monday, August 27, 2007

Hibang

HIBANG
Ni: Arvin U. de la Peña

Sumayaw ka sa harapan namin
Gilingan mo kami
Tuksuhin mo kami
Akitin mo pa kami.

Linlangin mo aming mga mata
Abusuhin mo aming kahinaan
Lokohin mo kami sa iyong salita
Perahan mo pa kami.

GRO, ka nga talaga
Di maiiwasan pang-aakit
Kahit alam naming bulsa ay mauubusan
ng laman
Patuloy kaming naghahangad ng iyong
konting pagmamahal.

Magulang (publish in newspaper clip)

Ang MAGULANG na gawa kong tula ang ilan lang sa mga napublish kong tula. Katuwaan nga lang kasi ang kaibigan ko ay nag hiling siya sa akin na ilagay ko daw ang pangalan niya. Kaya ayun nilagay ko nga. Buti at napublish.....




Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Walk (story of imagination)

WALK
By: Arvin U. de la Peña

One day as I walk on the street, I see
a beggar ask money to a beautiful lady.
And then for a certain reason the beautiful
lady refuse to give. That scene was the saddest
part of my life I saw happen for a beggar. As
I continue walking I see the church. I immediately
said to the Lord " hope your beautiful daughter
give something to that beggar ". When I said
that the one boy walk past beside me carrying
an expensive flowers. And then I immediately
said to myself, " flowers only good if it is fresh ".
When I already near to the place where I want
to go what comes in my mind is the story of a
person in which his life became worst because
always escape his responsibility in their house.
So I after I think that I immediately go back and
as i walk I hear the sound of an ambulance.
After a few minuntes of walking I saw the ambulance
park at the center of the street and many persons
seeing of what happen. In my mind I know it was
an accident. Huh! I immediately wonder of what
happen. The beautiful lady is hit by the car and
some parts of the body is bleeding. All persons
in the scene including me was pity for her
situation. As she slowly carried inside the
ambulance the boy that walk past beside me
bringing flowers get near to the beautiful lady and
said, " Don't cry, be strong. Our parents will come
with us to the hospital. I already give the flowers
to
your lover
". And as the ambulance go I asked myself
" Who is her lover that she give an expensive flowers?,
It is a boy or a girl?. How lucky they are. I also said
to myself, " That beautiful lady can afford to buy an
expensive flowers but even a centavo or a one piso
coin cannot give to a beggar." I just laugh and said to
myself again reminding the song of the band Side A
"so many questions in life but the answers are so few."
When I go home I helped something to do in the house
and promise to myself that I will only go out to go to
a place where I want to go if there is anymore nothing
to do in the house. And the lesson I get when i walk is
" You can never knew what will happen to your life
when you go out or even when you are only inside of
the house. It is because accident come to a person
without notice."

Friday, August 17, 2007

Boulevard

BOULEVARD
Ni: Arvin U. de la Peña

Kaysarap mong balik-balikan
Kasi kahit paano nakakagaan ka
ng loob
Kahit na sa bawat pagpunta sa'yo
Halos maubos ang perang dala.

Habang tinitingnan ang dagat
At ang malayong bukid
Pakiwari talaga kuntento na sa buhay
Lalo kapag iniinom na ang malamig
na beer.

Sa bawat pagpunta sa iyo
Kasama minsan ang ilang mga kaibigan
Ay nagdudulot ka talaga ng saya
Sabihin pang nahihilo kami sa pagkalasing.

Minsan isang gabi napadaan ako sa'yo
Akala ko ay sasaya ako
Akala ko lalasingin mo uli ako
Pero hindi, hindi ganun ang nangyari.

Bakit?, bakit sa'yong lugar ko pa
Nakita na magkasama at masaya
Ang tibok ng aking puso
At ang karibal ng aking puso.

Hudyat ba iyon para humanap ako ng iba?
Hudyat ba iyon para kalimutan na lang siya?
Hudyat ba iyon para di ko na siya isipin pa?
O, hudyat iyon para unti-unti iwasan na kita?

Oh, boulevard sikat ka ngang puntahan
Nang magsing-irog o nais mag-inuman
Ngunit bakit sa kabila ng lahat na
pagpupunyagi ko sa'yo
Binigyan mo ako ng sakit, walang kapantay
na sakit.

Boulevard, oh boulevard, bakit?