XI.

OTHER AFRICAN-ASIAN POEMS

 LIKE THE MOLAVE
BY: ZULUETA DA COSTA
Not yet,Rizal ,not yet.Sleep not in peace:
There are thousand water spanned:
There are thousand mountains to be crossed:
There are thousand crosses To be borne.
Our shoulders are not strong; our sinews are
Grown Flaccid With dependence, smug with
ease
Under another's Wing. Rest Not in peace;
Not yet Rizal,not yet. The land Has need
Of young blood-and,what younger Than your
own,
Forever Spilled In the great name of freedom,
Forever Oblate On the Altar of
PHILIPPINES
The free? Not you alone ,Rizal. O souls
And spirits Of the martyred Brave ,arise!
Arise and scour The land! Shed Once again
Your willing Blood! Infuse The vibrant red
Into Our thin anaemic veins; until
We pick up your Promethean Tools And,strong,
Out of the deprhless Matrix of Your faith
In us,On the silent cliffs freedom,
We carve For all time your Marmoreal Dream!
Until our people ,seeing ,are become
Like a molave ,firm ,resilent,Staunch,
Risingg on the hillside unafraid,
Strong in Its Own Fibre ,yes, like a molave.

II
The youth of the land is a proud and nobie
appellation,
he youth of the land is a paranomic poem
The youth of the land is a book of paradoxes
The youth of the land is a pat on one's back,
The youth of the land is a huge
Canvas of spectral colors,
The youth of the land is an epic tragedy-comedy,
The youth of the land is a crashing symphony,
The youth of the land is a child grown old in tears,
The youth of the land is an old man laughing
through a perpetual infancy;
A bastard child of a thousand dreams,
masquerading and dancing,
The youth of the land.
III
We, the filipinos of today, are soft,
easy-going, parasitic, involous,
inconstant, indolent, inefficient.
Would you have me sugarcoat you?
I would be happier to shower praise upon
my countrymen...but let us be realists.
Let us strip ourselves.
Youth of the land, you are a bitter pill to shallow
This ia a testament of youth borne on the four pacofic
winds:
This is a parable of seed for ways sown in stone:
This is a chip not only on the President’s shoulder:
The nation of our father’s shivers with longing
expectation.
Shall we sons and daugther, brother youths of the land,
Walk up new and forever knock the flirting chip off?
Or will the nation of our fathers be foverver and forever
Ligting candles in the wind?
 FOREFATHERS
BYE: BERAGO DIOP
Listen more often to things rather than being.
Hear the fire's voice,
Hear the voice of water.
In the wind hear the sobbing of the trees,
It is our forefathers breathing.
The dead are not gone forever.
There are in the Paling shadow
And in the darkening shadows.
The dead are not beneath the ground.
They are in the rustling tree,
In the murmuring wood,
In the still water,In the flowing water,
In the lonely place, in the crowd;
The dead are not dead.
SENEGA
Listen more often to things rather than beings.
Hear the fire's voice.
Hear the voice of water.
In the wind hear the sobbing of the trees.
It is the breathing of our forefathers
Who are not gone, not beneath the ground,
Not dead.
The dead are not gone forever.
They are in a woman's breast.
A child's crying.
A glowing ember.
The dead are not beneath the earth,
They are in the flickering fire’s,
In the weeping plant, the groaning rock,
The wooded place, the home.
The dead are not dead.
Listen more often to things rather than beings.
Hear the fire's voice,
Hear the voice of water.
In the wind hear the sobbing of the trees.
It is the breath of our forefathers.
LIFE IN OUR VILLAGE
BY: MATEI MARKWEI GHANA, AFRICA
In our village
When elders are around,
Boys not look at girls
And girls not look for boys
Because the elders say
That is not good.

Even when night comes

Boys must play seperately,
Girls must play seperately.
But humanity is weak
So boys and girls meet.

The boy's play hide and seek

And the girl's play hide and seek.
The boy’s know where the girl's hide
And the girls know where the boys hide-
So in their hide and seek,
Boy's seek girl’s
Girl's seek boy’s
And each to each sing
Song of love
 WHAT IS BLOG AND VLOG?
BLOG
a regularly updated website or
web page, typically one run by
an individual or small group, that
is written in an informal or
conversational style.
VLOG
• Vlog derives from video
blog or video log and refers to a
type of blog where most or all of
the content is in video form.
• Vlog posts consist of creating a
video of yourself or an event,
uploading it to the internet, and
publishing it within a post on your
blog. However, it doesn't have to
be that restrictive.
 BLOG
What blog means
• A blog (shortening of “weblog”) is an online journal or informational website displaying
information in the reverse chronological order, with latest posts appearing first. It is a
platform where a writer or even a group of writers share their views on an individual subject.
How to create a Blog
• Step 1: Plan your blog post by choosing a topic, creating an outline, conducting research,
and checking facts.
• Step 2: Craft a headline that is both informative and will capture readers’ attentions.
• Step 3: Write your post, either writing a draft in a single session or gradually word on parts
of it.
• Step 4: Use images to enhance your post, improve its flow, add humor, and explain
complex topics.
• Step 5: Edit your blog post. Make sure to avoid repetition, read your post aloud to check its
flow, have someone else read it and provide feedback, keep sentences and paragraphs
short, don’t be a perfectionist, don’t be afraid to cut out text or adapt your writing last
minute.
 VLOG
What Vlogging Means
• In the early days of blogging, vlogs were called podcasts, a term that was used to refer to both audio
and video blog posts. Today the two have adopted their own distinct nomenclature. Vlog is used by
video streamers who don't use a blog but post scheduled updates via other means like YouTube; their
profile often advertises them as vloggers. However, live broadcasts are available too, from websites
like YouTube and Facebook, and those are also considered vlogs.
How to Create a Vlog
• You can vlog anywhere that supports video content, but that's not all you need. The first step is to
identify where you want to blog, as in which website you should use to post your blog content.
• YouTube is a huge website that hosts lots of vlogger's content, and it's absolutely free. However, there
are alternatives if you need a traditional blog platform that also supports text and image posts.
• It's absolutely necessary to have a recording device too, like a webcam or dedicated video camera (or
even your iPhone) that isn't attached to a computer, as well as a microphone.
• You can definitely use any kind of video and audio hardware that you prefer, but to stand out among
other streamers and vloggers, it's usually recommended to get yourself something that can help
produce high-quality content.
• What's more is the video editing software necessary for post-recording and pre-publishing. This
includes not only your traditional video editing programs but also any video conversion software that
can help get your unedited content into your editing software.
EXAMPLE