ALBERT B. CASUGA: WARNINGS: YOKED HAIKUS

Friday, July 15, 2011

WARNINGS: YOKED HAIKUS

WARNINGS: YOKED HAIKUS

Two birds singing songs
say similar things meaning
different warnings.

Ethereal notes wake
the doleful soul to sunrise,
quick ones will surprise.

Whither hides the thrush
calling this day a good day?
One trills. Defecates.

Rhythms of a day:
like looking at either side
of a one-way mirror.

—Albert B. Casuga
07-15-11

Prompt: Whither the thrush whose ethereal notes woke me at dawn? A male towhee flies up to a sunlit branch and takes a shit, singing.---Dave Bonta, The Morning Porch, 07-15-11

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Summer Suns (short story collection with Cirilo F. Bautista, Manila, UST Press, 1962); Narra Poems and Others (poetry collection, San Beda College Publications, Manila, 1968); Still Points (poetry collection, Flores & Associates, Manila, 1972); In a Sparrow's Time (poetry collection, Infocom, Canada, 1990); Songs For My Children (poetry collection, Infocom, Canada, 1996); The Aesthetics of Literature (Literary Theory and Criticism, De La Salle University, Manila, 1972); Editor: Man in Search of Meaning: Literature (Humanities Series, Asia Foundation & DLSU Textbook Committee, Manila, 1970); Man and His Literary Past: The Classical Tradition (Asia Foundation & DLSU Textbook Committee, Manila, 1971); A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Manila, 2009). The author's prose and poetry are anthologized in books published in the Philippines, Canada, United States, Australia, and Indonesia.