ALBERT B. CASUGA: SUMMER POEMS

Monday, August 15, 2011

SUMMER POEMS

SUMMER DANCE

48 summers ago, on our maiden dance,

I knew I had only one left foot,

but almost died to discover I had two.

BAGUIO SUMMER ON MY MIND

Skating, sailing at Burnham Park,

I stole my first kiss, and carved

her name on a pine tree’s brittle bark.

SUMMER SUNDOWNS

Now we watch shimmering summer sunsets

on porches while we play our waiting game,

wondering if her name is still among the branches.

---Albert B. Casuga

08-15-11

These "one-line" poems were earlier posted in their original forms in Dave Bonta's Via Negativa, 08-13-11

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The Blogger's Books

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.