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Volume 2, Number 44               December 8 - 14, 2002            Quezon City, Philippines







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THE GUERILLA IS LIKE A POET 
Jose Maria Sison

 

The guerilla is like a poet

Keen to the rustle of leaves

The break of twigs

The ripples of the river

The smell of fire

And the ashes of departure.

 

The guerilla is like a poet.

He has merged with the trees

The bushes and the rocks

Ambiguous but precise

Well-versed on the law of motion

And master of myriad images.

 

The guerilla is like a poet.

Enrhymed with nature

The subtle rhythm of the greenery

The inner silence, the outer innocence

The steel tensile in-grace

That ensnares the enemy.

 

The guerilla is like a poet.

He moves with the green brown multitude

In bush burning with red flowers

That crown and hearten all

Swarming the terrain as a flood

Marching at last against the stronghold.

 

An endless movement of strength

Behold the protracted theme:

The people’s epic, the people’s war.

 

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