Behold the Whale Shark, the largest fish!
Though it’s fleshy, it’s not right for our dish
Having the name of a whale, it sounds great in size
Having the name of a shark, it looks fearful in the eyes
But though it’s large, there’s no threat to come near
And though it’s scary, there’s no need to fear

This giant is gentle like the biggest of dinosaurs
Like the Apatosauruses that were not carnivores
This harmless “Butanding” eats not by tearing
It’s wide mouth feeds strangely by filtering
So it’s really ridiculous to strike this gentle guy
Self defense can be a big, big lie…a funny alibi

The world is the home of this gentle giant
In all continents there it is like the elephant
Hey look it’s also on our 100 peso bill
The only place where no one can ****
But here in the Philippines, the government will punish you
If you catch, **** & sell this treasure we value!

01/27/2015
(Dumarao)
*Defense of the Animals Collection

Pulled thee from a fruit
Tiny from crown’s root
Poses like dagger
Head of its master
Guess – it’s “pineapple”!

Just bought by father
Or maybe mother
Sold by some vendor
Grown by some farmer
For every eater

First Day Twenty Twelve
On this solemn eve
Almost second day
No time for delay
First Sunday near end

Among the thirteen
Fruits midnight dinin’
Tradition they lay
On plastic pink tray
The table center

Imperfect New Year
But somehow it’s dear
Firecrackers zero
Even sparklers no
Yet, full and happy!

-01/01/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

We pray to the Father
And to the Blessed Mother
To the Son and the Holy Ghost
The saints, angels, heavenly host
We pray to many, but worship one
We recognize God and His growing clan
For heaven is glorious, His dominion grows!

-12/15/2015
(Dumarao)
*45th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Be baptized and become a Christian
Confess our sins and reconcile with the One
Take Holy Communion and receive His body
Be confirmed and strengthen your Christianity
Get married and be a mother or father
Or be ordained and become His minister
And at the hour of death, be anointed!

-12/06/2015
(Dumarao)
*30th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Culled thee from waist height
Quaint ornamental
A type of hard grass
Some Japanese breed
Pretty “dwarf bamboo”

CapSU-Dumarao
Arancillo land
So their property
Their worker planted
It’s a décor there

Third day January
Third day Twenty Twelve
Third Day of the Year
Of Water Dragon
About 4 PM

Eighth bundle of same plant
Row from TED Building
Along the path way
Side where there frat huts
Arrayed in neat line

First TED afternoon
Of this year to home
While alone walking
Under fine sunset
Bye bye for now TED!

-01/03/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Oh Father God, deliver us from anxiety
May we calm down when things get messy
Oh Lord Jesus, save us who are like David
Grant us wisdom so troubles we can rid
Oh Holy Spirit, rescue us from daily worries
Be our calming breeze against difficulties
This we ask in our Almighty God. Amen!

-12/20/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems Against Life’s Problems

Mountains crumble
Seas tremble
Tornadoes giggle
Fireballs fall

Sky’s filled with electrons
Earth teems with protons
Electric currents are on
On this day of Armageddon

Lightnings are scratching
The land in searching
For a mouse that’s hiding
In a flower blooming.

-04/25-26/2012
(Dumarao)
*for Comp. Prog.  poem in Salingsing Issue of 1st Sem., AY 2011-12

When we pray, we talk to God
When we worship, we recognize God
By prayer, hope we exhibit
By worship, faith we exhibit
Pray and we build divine relationship
Worship and we honor God’s leadership
Prayer & worship make us His children.

-12/13/2015
(Dumarao)
*43rd Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Picked thee head level
From bamboo bundle
Beside eight of us
It’s sort of wild grass
Behold this “Chinese Bamboo!”

As Ante Bing said
By them it’s planted
Capuso family
The owner of thee
I’m with 6 batchmates

Twenty-third of June
Sky’s speaking a rune
Nimbus were coming
Was about raining
About 3 PM

Beside a dam deep
Wherein no one should creep
It’s an upland
Metres from farmland
In Aglalana

Tolada active
For month elusive
But need not be tired
If moment inspired
Batchmates rebonding.

-06/23/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Do not deceive me
Because I am loyal to thee

Do not frustrate me
Because I trust thee

Do not cut me
Because I’m here to heal thee

Do not mock me
Because I praise thee

Do not disintegrate me
Because I am here to complete thee

Do not sadden me
Because I gladden thee

Do not confuse me
Because I am sincere to thee

Do not frighten me
Because I braven thee

Do not leave me
Because I’m always here for thee

Do not disown me
Because I accept thee

Do not misunderstood me
Because I’m trying to be frank to thee

Do not trash me
Because I value thee

Do not destroy me
Because I use to repair thee

Do not hate me
Because I love thee!

-05/19/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Stormy Morning Poems Collection

I have anticipated
As what the skies have said
Let’s hide under the bed!

The wind is blowing
The rain is pouring
We have to do something

Blowing and pouring again and again
It’s driving me insane
**** this wind and rain!

-06/21/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Stormy Morning Poems Collection

Obtained thee at end
Of new experience
Brought by masteral
A riverside shrub
It’s mangrove leaf!

Planted by any
Concerned citizen
Perhaps a student
Or a caretaker
Five barangays care

Cloudy afternoon
About two-thirty
Twenty-first day of
September this year
While going away

From Cadimahan
Floating restaurant
That sails on river
Near mouth of the sea
Mangrove plants along

A nice souvenir
From a rare happening
With my Masteral
Classmates and teacher
On a river tour!

-09/22/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Got thee from burial
After funeral
It’s green in color
Not from a flower
It’s a sort of “fern”

Handled by my aunt
With few flowers count
For grandma who’s dead
With white hairs on head
Neighbors and kin with

April Twenty-Two
It is summer too
Two o’clock about
Requiem mass we’re out
While to tomb heading

On middle of way
Where Lola should lay
Dumarao graveyard
Sarcophagus hard
Towards our clan’s graves

Bye Lola Edith!
No more you can sit
Hope to see later
Or maybe sooner
Beloved Lola!

-04/23/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Got thee on Foundation Day
Twenty-nine years our school stay

Worth to remember indeed
It must be something to heed
One year past, I was there last
But joined event, not yet must
Because on that time before
I was not yet a member

But this time can’t imagine
This occasion I’m now in
Last year I was also there
CapSU-Dumarao dreamer
On that time just applying
Too Gaisano opening

Oh this flower’s memorial
My bio’s historical
First shake hand with Gov. Tanco
Saw Congressman Haresco

Got thee just after my lunch
At Tanco Resort – from bunch.

-10/15/2011
(Dumarao)
*Ode to the 7 Flowers of 2011

Take the Holy Communion & receive the body of Christ
Say “Amen” and remember what He sacrificed
Through it we are being reminded
That He lived and departed
For the glory of God the Father
Who promises us a life thereafter
When our bodies will rise again like our Savior!

-12/06/2015
(Dumarao)
*33rd Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

God created us for a purpose
He created us because…

He wants to share His life
On earth where He made this possible
Though it’s full of hardship & strife
To grow & multiply we are capable!

God created us for a purpose
He created us because…

He wants to share His goodness
To those who have heart, mind & soul
It’s us, humans, who are created in His likeness
Whatever, whoever – we are all His people!

God created us for a purpose
He created us because…

He wants to share His joy in heaven
To those who know, love & serve Him
Through Jesus, His Son, who will come again
On the Day of Judgment & Cataclysm!

-11/01/2015
(Dumarao)
*1st Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

**** you stupid who is feeling delightful pain
From my anguish, cruel, you’ll never ever gain
You deserve more than a jail
Hell’s upon you stingray’s tail
Frowning piranha, smiling hyena, in vain!

-1/02/2007
(Dumarao)
*Topsy-Turvy Limerick Ironic

Welcome to Thebes, you daring traveler!
Because of your wisdom, I have lifted its cover!
Free now you can pass, free now you can enter!

Oh what an insult to the keeper of the gate?
To itself, to herself..it is/she is…full of hate!
What a shame? What a madness? What a miserable fate?!

How come that a wretched being like you surpass…
This riddle that for ages no sages encompass?!
What in your brain do you have to provoke such bad ***?!

Oh shame on my face for such a disgrace!
I am like a runner who lost in my own game of race!
Now the time has come to shatter myself like a flower vase!

As I fell into pieces from this glorious pedestal…
I curse your brain that’s whimsical! I curse your eyes that are abnormal!
Embrace this Curse of the Dying Sphinx! Your brain & eyes are fatal!

Behold Oedipus! Witness how a small brain destroys the whole body!
Your brain!...Your odd, little brain…will now be the end of me!
Farewell, Enigma-Breaker! It hurts to see you breaking free!

-02/01/2015
(Dumarao)
*Fallen Myths Collection

Hear the church bells, hear it ring
For the joyful bride is coming
Let the groom open his arms
Like a shield protecting his host from harms
For this day they’re destined to be one
One in heaven like the moon and sun
Best wishes to our couple forevermore!

-12/12/2015
(Dumarao)
*41st Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Picked thee from high place
Meters from its base
Now the longest one
Note’s page overspan
It’s a bamboo leaf

Students – sports players
-And stage performers
From InterCapSU
Just said “Bye, bye you”
Towards Home-Sweet-Home

September last day
While bus on delay
Road’s bit so rocky
Blurred air was dusty
Sun has just set

On bus “Marienelle”
Beside window sill
On Sigma somewhere?
A highschool near there
Dumarao coming

Processed Salingsing
Papers to Ma’am Bing
Bought books, inks, CDs
Went to Ma’am Gomez
Somehow busy day.

-09/30 – 10/01/2011
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Come, tell me
How better your parents can be

I do not say I’ve got
The perfect ones and you’re not

It’s just that I want to boast
The people who are to me host

They are my Nanay & Tatay
Who will never allow me to die

It’s only for them I offer my years
I spent for nothing maybe, but full of cheers

I may not look cheerful
But my heart with hope is full

They didn’t want to make me hungry
And want to give the best they can be

Whatever bad things or words they get from me
However good to others I may seem to be

It’s only my parents who have my best love.

-12/08/2011
(Dumarao)
*Second Incubus Collection

Holy is God, holy is His name
Different in different tongues, but still the same
The God of Israel, the God of earth
The God of my life ever since birth
His name I praise, to His name I pray
His name is glorious whatever they say
His name alone is worthy of worship!

-11/29/2015
(Dumarao)
*19th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Oh Father God, look how frail we are to deserve Your wrath
Our sins are overwhelming like we are soaked in blood bath
Have mercy because sometimes we don’t know what we do
Have mercy because we call upon You
Your punishment is the most painful, everlasting
Hell is full, its screams are deafening
Cover us with Your Holy Spirit like an impenetrable shield!

-12/12/2015
(Dumarao)
*38th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Thousands of islands, thousands of fiestas
Hundreds of colors, hundreds of vistas
Come to the Philippines
And you’ll feel happiness!

-10/11/2015
(Dumarao)
*for a poem contest in allpoetry.com

Bless, oh Lord, the things we utilize
Make them Yours like when Your priests baptize
They are objects which we must sanctify
For You we can use them to glorify
We honor them, but not worship
Still Yours alone is the lordship
As a king, they are symbols of Your reign!

-12/13/2015
(Dumarao)
*42nd Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Our Father, let Your name be honored
Let Your kingdom be savored
Let Your intention be fulfilled
Let our stomachs be filled
Let our sins be forgiven
Let our temptations be taken
Let evil go away!

-12/15/2015
(Dumarao)
*44th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

The Catholic Church –
Founded by our Savior
For the glory of our Creator
The Catholic Church is superior

The pioneer & supreme body
Of all members of Christianity
House of prayer & worship, a spiritual sanctuary!

-11/10/2015
(Dumarao)
*10th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

The Holy Mass is a great sacrifice
Through it, our faith can suffice
Through it, we worship the Lord
We thank Him and listen to His word
We pray for blessings & graces
We confess our sins & ask forgiveness
Great indeed is the Holy Mass!

-12/07/2015
(Dumarao)
*34th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Hail Queen of All Media
Fit for horror, comedy & drama
Thou hold the scepter of soap opera

Thou alone our prime idol
Of rich & poor, masses & all
Cape of charisma to you install

Delight of song & dance
Brilliant of head & appearance
Thou don the train of elegance

Thy awesome aura to public a jewelry
It’s rigorous to find thee any awry
Thy flawless radiance is a phylactery

Any man to you shall kneel & bow down
Black or white, meztizo or mulatto or skin is brown
They stand with awe before thy precious crown.

-08/08/2012
*My Twilight Poems Collection

Oh Father God, we are sometimes weaker than the devil
We are sometimes tempted by what we feel
It seems that the world is strong enough to pull me
Pull me away, push me away from Thee
Oh Jesus, be my strength
For my sins have reached their fullest length
My Savior is my hope for everlasting joy!

-12/12/2015
(Dumarao)
*37th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Human body must be treated with respect
For through it we find the image of the Perfect
Thinking and doing about it wickedly
Can lead to sin against chastity
Do not tempt and do not be tempted
Our body’s not an object, not a bed
Our body’s a temple, the temple of God!

-12/01/2015
(Dumarao)
*23rd Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Marut, the businessman, wants to go vacation
He now ponders what place in or out his nation
Buys the ticket but decides not to go
Thinks more money to spend if do so
Hour before flight is in doubtful decision.

-01/01/2007
(Dumarao)
*Topsy-Turvy Limerick Ironic

Plucked thee hastily
Hoped no one saw me
A platform décor
With two others more
We call it “palma”!

Whoever placed it
Surely got profit
Public property
University
CapSU-Main domain

Two-day Seminar
Which may bring us far
A Textbook Writing
Aiming for something
These coming school years

Room for conference
Bird’s eye of audience –
Right…but not there born
Just there to adorn
It needs the sun soon

Day whispered to me
Opportunity
I can write a book
Pleasure I might hook
This day’s a calling!

-06/03/2011
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Oh God, though they pronounce me incurable
And all of my days will be miserable
I shall still hope that tomorrow’s gonna be gentle

For men are created to uplift the weak
They’re also obliged to comfort the sick
As Your Son, Jesus, tended the meek

I’m so damaged with outlasting sore
My former radiance is hard to restore
Can do nothing but to always implore

Seeking a friend to let a hand
Or a genie who makes wish a command
Or a Moses who leads to Promised Land

But as I wake up in reality
Everything’s uncertain, the future is gloomy
Where is the hero who will save me?

Oh God, help me to become sober
Though my night seems to be longer
I still must hope that morning comes sooner.

-12/21/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Morning Poems Collection…written on Apocalypse Day according to Mayans

Call me, flightless wings, don’t deny
I do flip, flap, stretch, yet cannot fly
For what are we or me
In night a star that’s wee
But look! I’m still beautiful! Thanks, High!

-01/03/2007
(Dumarao)
*Topsy-Turvy Limerick Ironic

The Son of God –
Conceived by a ******
Blameless & free of sin
His life is the greatest example
His works are the most noble
His death is the ultimate sacrifice
His resurrection is proof that we shall arise!

-11/08/2015
(Dumarao)
*8th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Oh Father God, my friends fail
One by one they are gone
To them I can’t anymore run

Oh Jesus Christ, my friends fail
Even those who I’ve always been
Now can hardly be seen

Oh Holy Spirit, my friends fail
Goad them back with Your wings
I’m waiting for their comings!

-02/05/2014
(Dumarao)
*My Prayer Poems Collection

Oh God, I’m always full of malice
Thinking that everyone’s ready to chastise
Without considering truth & justice

For I have sinned to the fullest
And failed all kinds of test
No one shall give me rest

That is why I need to be watchful
Because everyone can be vengeful
To the one who has been sinful

Oh God, away me from pestilence
And deliberate abhorrence
Give me care, give me prudence.

-02/23/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Morning Poems Collection…written on OLSI Foundation Day

My Mother, maybe like the others
Is conscious in family matters

I know her rags-to-money story
And money-to-rags-tragedy

When I began to be world conscious
Her presence – I was sometimes anxious

For she used to be irritable
Making my simple flaws terrible

Occasionally, she shouts at me
Eventhough I am not far from thee

Yet, my mother’s ever generous
She’s the one who used to buy me toys

Like Tatay, she’ll not make me hungry
That’s my parents’ greatest legacy

Besides that, to her I attribute
My college institute

She worked for almost twenty-four hours
Burned too much her delicate eyebrows

I regret I still can’t compensate
Everything she had done for me great

If given chance to reincarnate
I want for myself to be a straight

So that I’ll not be again her guilt!

-11/28/2011
(Dumarao)
*First Incubus Collection

Sometimes we speak evil of others
Some are harmful, we cannot reverse
When the damage is done
And there’s nowhere to run
Our conscience calls us to retract
Those wicked words to those we detract
So be careful we must when speaking!

-12/02/2014
(Dumarao)
*25th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

The shadows of the past haunted the Filipino people
Tyranny, corruption & unjust leadership they tried to topple…

First through People Power 1 against the dictator
Who suppressed democracy & became the nation’s terror
Second through People Power 2 against the anomalous
Who displayed immorality & became outrageously scandalous
Third through People Power 3 against the opportunist
Who reigned unjustly & became a hideous terrorist

…Through this, the Filipinos can oust their highest leader
A peaceful revolution called “People Power”!

-09/15/2015
(Dumarao)
*Philippine History Rhyme Collection

God is All-Powerful
He possesses every kind of might
It never fades, it’s always full!

God is All-Time
He is the past, the present, the future
The periods of darkness, the moments sublime!

God is All-Place
He is here & there, far & near
Full or empty, with curse or grace!

God is All-Knowing
All times, all places, all things He knows
He is aware of everything!

God is All-Good
He is blameless & sinless
He is of perfect stature & mood!

-11/02/2015
(Dumarao)
*2nd Daily Reflection for Catechism Booklet

Oh Father God, I am discouraged
I want to turn back
Enough strength I lack

Oh Jesus Christ, I am discouraged
My failures are always
I’m filled with dismays

Oh Holy Spirit, I am discouraged
I’m fed up with challenges
Do not make me hopeless!

-01/23/2014
(Dumarao)
*My Prayer Poems Collection

Look! Someone yonder stands proud in elegant gown
The vain head protrudes with a shining golden crown
But oh! Suddenly pours the flashing rain
That someone brings no umbrella in brain
The haughty humbles to share with a clown!

-01/01/2007
(Dumarao)
*Topsy-Turvy Limerick Ironic

Catholics are Christians who have a unique calling
To the whole world their faith they must bring
For it is of Christ, by Christ & for Christ
Whose blood & flesh for us He sacrificed
So to Him we must dedicate all our labors
From land to lands, sky to skies, shore to shores
We can all be His saints, we can all be holy!

-12/05/2015
(Dumarao)
*27th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

I fear physical death because I may just go…
To a forest or a mountain or a cave
Where I make mother nature my own grave
Like an elemental who causes fear to those who misbehave!
To a hospital or an office or an abandoned building
Where I treat man-made structure my own dwelling
Like a ghost who gives goosebumps to those who are living!

-03/18/2015
(Dumarao)
*My Fear of Death Collection

Oh God, I am lonely
Behold! No one is with me
To me there’s no more friend
Who are You going to send…
To share with my grief?
To grant me some relief?
If there’s no one to accompany me
Just let me be with Thee!

-02/14/2014
(Dumarao)
*My Prayer Poems Collection

We humble ourselves when we confess
We submit ourselves to God’s forgiveness
We decrease punishment our sins have given
We increase our chance in going to heaven
We restore our friendship with our Creator
We strengthen our faith in our Savior
We must willingly confess our sins!

-12/08/2015
(Dumarao)
*36th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Disobedience to God is what we call “sin”
It can come from others or from within
Distancing us from God, bringing us ruin

There is a sin which is inherent
From our first parents who had been irreverent
To God’s one simple, but serious commandment

There are sins which we ourselves commit
Some are light, some are heavy, but all are ****
If they don’t harm our body, it’s our soul they discredit!

-11/06/2015
(Dumarao)
*6th Daily reflection from Catechism Booklet

It’s God who gave me
This soul and body
He is the reason
Of this creation

It’s father and mother
Who caress and nurture
They are the reasons
Of my aspirations

I am a creation
For God’s intention
I am an aspiration
For my parents’ satisfaction.

-03/02/2012
(Dumarao)
*Third Incubus Collection