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Sumpa (Bane)

29 Tuesday Jan 2013

Posted by Su Layug in Poetry Translation

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agility, bird, curse, Filipino translation, fragility, horse, poem

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Lascaux cave painting

 

~ Wendy Videlock (translated from English)

 

Hitik sa lakas at kalyado

ng pagkatalusaling

 

Ang thoroughbred

at ang hummingbird

at lahat ng mga bagay

na may sumpang

kaliksian.

 

original poem: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/245144

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