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Activity Reference (Preferably for the discussion of traditional poems vs. contemporary poems)
To this harlequinade
I wear black tights and fool’s cap
Billiken, make me three bright masks
For the three tasks in my life
Three faces to wear
One after the other
For the three men in my life.
If my lover comes
Yes, when my Seducer comes
Make for me the face
That will in colors race
The carnival stars
And change in shape
Under his grasping hands.
Make it bloody
When he needs it white
Make it wicked in the dark
Let him find no old mark
Make it stone to his suave touch
This magician will walk me out,
Newly loved
Not knowing why my tantalizing face
Is strangely like the mangled parts of a face
He once wiped out.
CONTEMPORARY POEMS:
Activity Reference (Preferable to use with the discussion of traditional poetry and contemporary poetry
and also shape or concrete poetry (i.e. black-out poetry)):
http://libraryofinvisible.blogspot.com/2014/03/jose-garcia-villa.html
http://tricia-ish.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-am-semicolon.html
Activity Reference (Preferable to use with the discussion of rhyme and the sound in poetry)
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/THE_SOUNDS_OF_POETRY_33553_7.pdf
http://homepage.smc.edu/meeks_christopher/SOUND%20DEVICES%20USED%20IN%20POE
TRY.htm
I
ako
ang daigdig
ako
ang tula
ako
ang daigdig
ang tula
ako
ang daigdig
ng tula
ang tula
ng daigdig
ako
ang walang maliw na ako
ang walang kamatayang ako
ang tula ng daigdig
II
ako
ang daigdig ng tula
ako
ang tula ng daigdig
ako
ang malayang ako
matapat sa sarili
sa aking daigdig
ng tula
ako
ang tula
sa daigdig
ako
ang daigdig
ng tula
ako
III
ako
ang damdaming
malaya
ako
ang larawang
buhay
ako
ang buhay
na walang hanggan
ako
ang damdamin
ang larawan
ang buhay
damdamin
larawan
buhay
tula
ako
IV
ako
ang daigdig
sa tula
ako
ang daigdig
ng tula
ako
ang daigdig
ako
ang tula
daigdig
tula
ako
Activity Reference (Preferable to use with the discussion of contemporary poetry/ practice for poetry
reading; can also be for sounds of poetry): https://www.slideshare.net/liontamermigs/ako-ang-daigdig