Representative texts of

Region
Cognitive: The students will be able to
identify representative texts of Marjorie
Ebasco.
Psycho motor: The student will be able to
make a reflection paper about the poem
Affective: The students will able to appreciate
the poem through answering “ What is the
theme of the poem and its purpose?
answer
• How can your relationship with God reflected in your daily life?
Marjorie Evasco
an award- winning Filipino poet,
born in Maribojoc, Bohol on September 21, 1953. She writes in
two languages: English and Cebuano-Visayan and is a supporter of
women's rights, especially of women writers. Marjorie Evasco is
one of the earliest Filipina feminist poets.
Born: 21 September 1953 (age
65 years), Maribojoc
Books: Ochre Tones: Poems in English &
Cebuano, MORE
Awards: Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Essay, S.E.A. Write Award: Philippines
Education: De La Salle University Manila, Holy
Name University
 IS IT THE KINGFISHER?
This is how I desire god on this island
With you today: basic and blue
As the sea that softens our feet with salt Where we sit on this rock covered with
And brings the living wave to our mouths
seaweeds,
Playing with sounds of a primary
I suddenly feel the blueness embrace us,
language.
This rock, this island, this changed air,
“God is blue,” sang the poet Juan Ramon
The distance between us and the Self
Jimenez,
Drunk with desiring, his hair, eyebrows, We have longed to be. A bolt of burning
Eyelashes turned blue as the kingfisher’s blue
wings. Lights in my brain, gives the answer
It is this bird that greets us as we come We’ve pursued this whole day:
Round the eastern bend of this island; Seawaves sing it, the kingfisher flies in it,
Tells us the hairbreadth boundary This island is rooted in it. Desiring
between us God is transparent blue – the color
Is transient in the air, permeable to the Which makes our souls visible.
blue
Of tropic skies and mountain gentian.
The common kingfisher
is widely distributed
over Europe, Asia, and
North Africa, mainly
south of 60°N. It is a
common breeding
species over much of
its vast Eurasian range,
but in North Africa it is
mainly a winter visitor
HOW UNIQUE IS THE POEM?
• THEME
• IMAGERY
• DICTION