Poetry of Gonzalinho da Costa

SUPREMO To Andres Bonifacio Your bones may be lost forever, But we are possessed, fortunately, Of your photograph, in which ...

ALL SOULS’ The day of the dead is short respite for the living. The tumult of life is stilled by the remembrance of the dead. The ...

THE MADRIGAL I listened To a madrigal— Fire, fire, fire, They sang So brightly, Ethereal, I imagined The song itself, ...

SONG OF THE SOLITARY The moon abides invisibly in a day painted white. At my shoulder a dark green shadow is floating, the sea. B...

APHORISMS Tonic more powerful than music or spoken words is silence. Solitude is the companionable presence of God. A consci...

BLUE TRAIN To John Coltrane I listened to your blue train sauntering by... Rhythmic, not marching but the two-step Of a bird in ...

BAYANI Hero and bayani do not have the same meaning. Bayani is a richer word than hero because it may be rooted in bayan as place o...