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Best Poems From
MELVIN BANGGOLLAY
(11/07/1975)
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IF I HAD THE MAGIC
IF I HAD the MAGIC
Melvin Banggollay
If I had the magic
In my old gentle palm
I'll offer to heal the sick
free of any alms
and I'll end every tragic
lost of lives to calm
agony of the weak
with prayers and psalm.
If I had the magic
Upon my pen's charm
I'll write many comics
to create an alarm
mankind needs medics
to heal all ills that harm
with love so strategic
to make all human palm
caring and full of magic
in building peaceful barn
In sharing goodwill to men.
MELVIN BANGGOLLAY
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IN THE WIND OF CHANGE
IN THE WIND OF CHANGE
In the wind of change
things had really changed
like the winter's time,
and the summer's time
as our season's change
but never did I change
for this only love in me
will always be in memory
even you had changed
and truly gone stranged.
MELVIN BANGGOLLAY
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PHILIPPINES, MY MOHERLAND
PHILIPPINES, MY MOTHERLAND
Melvin Banggollay
P-hilippines, my dear great motherland
Cradle of my dreams and fervent plan
Abode of my life, culture and birth
Fountain of my youth I have to unearth.
H-ail to thee, native abode of my tongue
Lovely to speak with rhythm of my clan
Yet with sweetness healing anyones dirt
By the soothing tenderness that often flirts.
I-deal place to behold pearl shaped island
Majestic mountains and wide fertile land
Pristine beaches like Boracay of this earth
Loved by many including tourist experts.
L-and cultured by rich tribes of the Asian
Nestling a people from the blood of Malayan
Whose forefathers came afar this part of earth
To fine a nest they can have a cultural re-birth.
I-sland called as the pearl of the orient land
By the Spaniards by someone called Magellan
Who met Lapu-lapu in the battle of Mactan
Known as the first battle cry of Motherland.
P-eopled by a race so hospitable to everyone
With passionate culture and tender loving hands
Whose charm of her children exudes beauty
Loved and adored by so many men even today.
P-lace adorned with great treasure upon her palm
Rich mineral deposits sought by foreign hands
Like the famous mines in my own Cordillera
Where beauty of women dispels great aroma.
I-nspired with genuine education for every man
Her children can speak language of foreign tongue
Like her son Rizal gifted with a poetic charm
A linguist knowing 22 languages with a psalm.
N-o other one can hail dear Motherland
If not we, Filipinos, inheritor of this land
Tested by many times by tyrant foreign hands
Yet stood proud and free fighting for freedom.
E-very Filipinos in any place of this island
Must be proud of their roots and birth as a man
And even you may go and dwell in foreign land
Be proud youre part for the glory of Motherland.
S-hare your wings and honor to Motherland
Never hesitate to serve her with prudent hands
And to offer even our lives to protect our land
To secure its glorious past and glory of this island.
MELVIN BANGGOLLAY
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THE PEARL IS IN NATURE'S ANGER
THE PEARL IS IN NATURE'S ANGER
melvin banggollay
The pearl of the orient seas
Is a den of great catastrophies
as a wel known thyphoons belt
of 25 thyphoons upon its cheast
bringing flooding to the fullest
making live's problem out of rest.
Just recently 2 typhoons came
with hundred lives they claimed
drawning many with ocean of pains
burrying soul with mud of desdain
turning many's fate out of mercy
so blessed with endless agony.
Is this nature's great furious way
of showing its madness and fury
to let us realize our own stupidity
of raping nature's wealth everyday
even destroying its balance ecology
for our endless desire for money?
Phenomena of Global warming
over and accross every land and sea
to show upon us the ozone's warning
that it can't hold on mankind's fury
of raping nature without replacing
every tree we cut and burn everyday,
that it can not bear any longer
the war we waged out of our anger,
the pollution we make with danger
as we desire prosperity even we suffer
the wrath of nature and God's power.
MELVIN BANGGOLLAY
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