Obtained thee from branch
Broken from its trunk
Fallen on the land
From a sturdy tree
“Indian Mango” leaf!

Owned by our neighbor
Gabo family
Doministo too
I’m with our neighbors
Watching vestiges

At three-thirty five
Of dark afternoon
Just after the storm
Weaker winds blowing
Fewer rains dropping

In front of the house
Of Dudoy Etic
Other side road
On way to river
From a branch fallen

Great devastation
Brought by a typhoon
A super typhoon
Labelled “Yolanda”
Marked in history!

-11/08/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Firecrackers, in the ear so loud to hear
Fireworks, over the eyes to see so dear
Noisy lights eversince popular
Glaring pops how spectacular
Yehey! Here comes again the old New Year!

-01/01/2007
(Dumarao)
*Topsy-Turvy Limerick Ironic…inspired to become a poet and make poetry a habit

Oh Archangel Chamuel, receive my adoration!
Thou who are recognized as “Propagator of Love”
Share with me the affectionate heart you have
Bless me with God’s pink ray of charity
Be my versatile vessel of kindness & generosity
With your bountiful basket, let my body & soul feed
From St. Louis in Missouri, grant me the grace I need!

-03/03/205
(Dumarao)
*My Angels Collection

It clings upon the shadows
Touching the lofty meadows
Constant breeze from atmosphere’s bellows
Makes its delicate flesh mellows

Then a bird emblem of wisdom
Soon attracted by it to come
But I had no reason to cram
If I’ll be harvested by someone wholesome

Now the fruit once hanging on air
Rests soundly on its good host’s lair
Not a place for doubt nor despair
Just believe it’s on the right care.

-04/15/2012
(Dumarao)
*for TED poem in Salingsing Issue of 1st Sem., AY 2011-12

Oh Father God, we pray for citizenship
That its citizens establish good relationship
Oh Lord Jesus, we ask to strengthen our nationalism
That we unify our nation & avoid schism
Oh Holy Spirit, we beg for the welfare of our country
That it can always have justice, peace & prosperity
This we implore to our Lord God. Amen.

-12/22/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems For Christian Values

Plucked thee from low tree
Of rare fruit specie
Here it’s not native
So lucky to live
Wow!...an “apple” tree!

Don’t know thy planter
Maybe the owner
CapSU property
Veterinary
We’re six who saw thee

Wrote this day after
Picked thee from owner
Not so bright sunshine
Noon, February Nine
Year Two Thousand Twelve

Some meters away
National highway
Outside darag fence
Of roosters and hens
Backyard of Vet.Med.

Had picture-taking
Some staff Salingsing
Bea and Ghazee
Jayson and Amy
Ma’am Joy’s with us too!

-02/10/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

I want to be in paradise on earth
Free from all disgusting man-made dirt.

Roll on grasses
With no itches
Soak in water
‘Til I’m cleaner
Breathe the fresh air
Shun all despair!

Make me one with God’s prior creations
Filtering all worldly pollutions.

Sleep with the beasts
Feel them at least
Swim with fishes
Cleanse blemishes
Fly with the birds
Clouds we traverse!

Because I want to be one with nature
Making slower my mortal rupture.

-11/27/2011
(Dumarao)
*First Incubus Collection

Got thee at breast high
While newly arrived
A flowering plant
But has no odor
It’s a “yellow bell”!

Owned by religious
The Catholic Church
Of town of Miagao
I’m with Vet. Med. II
And BEEd II

Just finished raining
A cloudy morning
About nine-fifteen
Day twenty-seventh
Of month September

Right facing the front
Of quaint Miagao Church
A landscaped area
Near the tall pillar
With yellow flowers

Of course I must get
A leaf from a place
Where I was once part
When I’m in college
Oh how my heart jumps?!

-09/27/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Oh Father God, we pray for hope
That to our prayers You’ll never say nope
Oh Lord Jesus, we ask to see tomorrow
That there are chances to surpass sorrow
Oh Holy Spirit, we beg for another chance
That tomorrow still has another entrance
This we implore to our Lord God. Amen.

-12/23/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems for Christian Virtues

Oh Maria nga amon iloy
Dalangpan sg mga makaluluoy
Kami nagadangup sa Imo sg bug-os
Sa ti-on sg amon pag-antos.

-05/31/2014
(Dumarao)
*written this end of Flores De Mayo/Mayflower Offering to Mama Mary

Culled thee from nipa
Little manger roof
We call it “Belen”
By third year students
It’s from a palm tree

My advisory
TED BEEd Three
Don’t know who from them
But it’s one of them
Who got and placed it

Third day January
Third day Twenty Twelve
Third day of the year
Of Water Dragon
About 8 AM

Roof of small manger
Back from one corner
Third years placed it there
With other decors
Character papers

Tolada of kind
The first one unrhymed
Got with two more leaves
Obtained the same day
While Xmas decors unfixed.

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

But at least I’ve just witnessed
That you have changed

You’ve tried to be fair
To those in despair

You’ve shown impartiality
To an enemy

Somehow my toils – suicidal, insane
Didn’t fully fall in vain

There’s no need to worry
Proofs never existed in me

And my “boom” party-protection
Just mere propaganda & opinion

Out of addiction
To watching television

No more reason to arrest nor abduct
No more bother to **** nor destruct

Time to close your Wako-Wako eyes
Time for both of us to rise

Though for me I’m still a Kapuso
My respect & trust are back to 2.

-05/23/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Painful Poems Collection

Got thee from tiny
Six-leaf plant only
It’s ornamental
But not so floral
It’s a “fortune” plant!

Maybe it’s father
Perhaps my mother
Or younger sister
But not me – never
Who cared to plant it

‘Twas here years ago
One, two, three or so
But leaf I picked, hey
Thirty first of May
Twenty eleven

Here inside our house
In living room, browse
On petite vase, lo
With water shallow
Near little Buddhas

‘Coz I must begin
So it’s origin
Of my Tolada
Sunrise of saga
Pinoy poetry!

-05/31 – 06/01/2011
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection…I invented this while I was in my first “hang-over” after bonding with highschool classmates

Learn Natural Science! It has lots of branches
Distinguish them from Pseudo-Sciences
In Life Sciences, we study Human Biology
As well as Zoology & Botany
Through Earth Sciences, we learn earth’s wonders
Its systems & forms on lands & waters
Physical Science is of course about Physics
But it also includes Chemistry & Thermodynamics
Technology amazes us with human inventions
From past to present from different nations!

-09/05/2016
(Dumarao)
*GEN Poems

Oh Archangel Gabriel, receive my adoration!
Thou who are heralded as “Harbinger of Divine Revelation”
Reveal unto me the secret of eternal salvation
Cleanse me with God’s white ray of purity
Be my cleansing courier when my sins are covering me
With your truthful tidings, raise me up from the grave
From the Ascension Temple of Luxor in Egypt, deliver your hoping slave!

-03/04/2015
(Dumarao)
*My Angels Collection

Oh Father God, I am needing rules for living
So that I can walk the straight path
And not incur Your wrath

Oh Jesus Christ, I am needing rules for living
Teach me Your precious way
That I can be with You someday

Oh Holy Spirit, I am needing rules for living
Bring me Your guiding light
Don’t take me away from Your sight!

-02/28/2014
(Dumarao)
*My Prayer Poems Collection

Oh Father God, we pray for patience
That we persevere every malevolence
Oh Lord Jesus, we ask You to grant us endurance
That we also portray fortitude & temperance
Oh Holy Spirit, we beg for being able to wait
That we can analyze better the resolve of fate
This we implore to our Lord God. Amen.

-12/23/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems for Christian Virtues

Oh Father God, deliver us from flesh
May we be always spiritually fresh
Oh Lord Jesus, save us who are like Rahab
Grant us purity and a decent job
Oh Holy Spirit, rescue us from prostitution
Be our guardian against fornication
This we ask in our Almighty God. Amen.

-12/21/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems Against Life’s Problems

Oh Father God, deliver us from hatred
May we realize the love you said
Oh Lord Jesus, save us who are like Amnon
Grant us the spirit of love to live on
Oh Holy Spirit, rescue us from hating our neighbor
Be our loving spirit like the Creator & Savior
This we ask in our Almighty God. Amen.

-12/21/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems Against Life’s Problems

Trespasser! How dare you do this to me?!
Now with your blunder no more I can see!
After having my shelter & fodder then you’ll flee!

Ungrateful! I sheltered you but my eye you shattered!
I fed you but my blood you splattered!
Now I will crush you and your nasty herd!

Animals! I will flay you alive once your’re snatched!
I will shred your flesh once you’re clutched!
Don’t know my brutality has never been matched?!

Criminals! You will soon pay for your brutality!
Don’t you know you have enraged thee?!
Thee you have offended…the mighty god of the sea!

Godless! How dare you inflict the son of a god?!
For yourself it’s fruit is really, really bad!
For me my father to you is really, really mad!

Insane! Odysseus, also you deserve a cruel bane!
Poseidon! Hear your son, Polyphemus, wrenching in pain!
Let not this Plea of the Blinded Cyclops fall in vain!

-02/02/2015
(Dumarao)
*Fallen Myth Collection

Oh Father God, we pray for happiness
That our life may not be overwhelmed by sadness
Oh Lord Jesus, we ask to give us joy
That we be glad in every goodness we employ
Oh Holy Spirit, we beg for a great jubilee
That we achieve material & spiritual prosperity
This we implore to our Lord God. Amen.

-12/22/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems for Christian Virtues

Oh Father God, we pray for courage
That we stand brave like a sage
Oh Lord Jesus, we ask to be brave
That we fear not even the threats of grave
Oh Holy Spirit, we beg for being valiant
That we be steadfast to all difficulties grant
This we implore to our Lord God. Amen.

-12/22/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems for Christian Virtues

Pulled thee near from earth
A short shoot – new birth
Among the humblest
One of the smallest
Behold!...a “kamia”!

Obtained by father
From bank of river
Whoever planted
Not known by my head
Transplanted and then

Tenth day – September
Twenty-third’s over
About nine morning
Mist sprayed – thought raining
‘Bout nine thirty – wrote

Before – bank river
Now – “takas” – father
There he transplanted
On land adopted
Bless it to prosper

This one is special
Birthday memorial
So far the only
Written so early
While sun not yet gone.

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

Got thee on Feb’s final day
In CapSU when clouds are gray –

Got no flower before thee
On Valentine’s Day must be
When my Ramayan students
On program displayed talents
Where showered they some flowers
For Rama-Sita lovers

But after presentation
My mind forgot its mission
Oh flower of February
Alas! Why you slipped from me?
Need to think another day
What’ver flower come what may

Days passed not so important
To get one I’m reluctant
Resolved to wait ‘til last day
And found one on a pathway

After logged out from admin
To lib while JS pendin!

-02/28/2011
(Dumarao)
*Ode to the 7 Flowers of 2011

Be confirmed and strengthen your *******
To the church you are in, to the religion you engage
Be a better servant of the Lord
Be a stronger follower of His word
Defend the faith by word and deed
Just like what our Savior Jesus Christ did
Receive the indelible mark of the Chrism of His Spirit!

-12/06/2015
(Dumarao)
*32nd Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Oh Father God, we pray for honesty
That in this world truth can have supremacy
Oh Lord Jesus, we ask for truth all the time
That we experience moments sublime
Oh Holy Spirit, we beg for truthfulness
That every person can trust & avoid double-mindedness
This we implore to our Lord God. Amen.

-12/23/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems for Christian Virtues

Under thee, the guiltless feel safe and free
Correction grips the soul of the guilty

Punished in way most humane
It’s apparent justice – not illusory bane

During PNoy’s first years
Our beauties shone in Ms. World & Ms. Universe

In Sports – Azkals and Volcanoes – another grace
Hey! Our People’s Champ “Pacman” still unfazed

Forget not our Guiness
World’s Largest Human Cross and 10 Commandments

Setting for World’s Longest Coin Chain
We’re not insane nor vain

To the leader who is here
To the people he is dear

Hope those are good signs to vie
Towards our Golden Age! Mabuhay!

-12/16/2011
(Dumarao)

Oh Father God, I am anxious
Trials might get more serious
Burdens might weighten
Strength might lessen
Oh my Creator, diminish my loads
Oh my Creator, smoothen the roads

Oh Jesus Christ, I’m filled with anxiety
Cross might be harder to carry
I might fall along the way
I might get into dismay
Oh my Savior, help me carry on
Oh my Savior, let me move on

Oh Holy Spirit, I am perplexed
My life might have been hexed
It might be harder to manage
It might bring me rage
Oh my Guide, grant me understanding
Oh my Guide, make me withstanding.

-01/03/2014
(Dumarao)
*My Prayer Poems Collection

Picked thee from clusters
With red-like blisters
Shrub with thousand leaves
Packed flowers it gives
Hey! It’s a “santan”!

The owner of thee
A rich family
Named Araneta
And Hachuela
Dumarao’s elite

Glad birthday to her
Ma’am Inday’s mother
Their clan reunites
Family invites
June One of this year

Beside the stairway
Flowers in array
On box plots planted
To porch surmounted
Abode’s grand entrance

This day’s important
Somehow jubilant
‘Bout thirteen years past
Since I was there last
This one’s second time.

-06/01/2011
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Oh Father God, we pray for forgiveness
That our souls can attain peacefulness
Oh Lord Jesus, we ask to absolve our sins
That we approach heaven with wide grins
Oh Holy Spirit, we beg for absolution
That we become part of God’s glorious dominion
This we implore to our Lord God. Amen.

-12/22/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems for Christian Virtues

Picked thee from a vine
Name unknown to mine
Hanging on the air
To passersby bare
What plant are you? Tell!

Men on middle age
Girls looking teenage
Those men were standing
The girls were walking
Strangers on the road

Nineteenth November
From class just after
Fine day – sun was high
Filamer bye bye
Was about to climb

Overpass school zone
Traversed all alone
Trellis – on school side
Opposite – trike ride
And novelty store

Sat. class first time me
English MAT
Night – Ante Mily
Came from UAE
Twelfth Leaf memory.

-11/19/2011
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

Learn Basic Math! Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide Numbers
Be they Whole, Decimals or Integers
Let us also apply the 4 Operations
To numbers less than 1 whole we call Fractions
In number sets, there are LCD & LCM
Find the GCD & GCF of them
Get the Ratio, Proportion & Percentage
Master the Metric System like a great sage
In every civilization, numbers have meanings
Have something to do with life & happenings!

-09/03/2016
(Dumarao)
*GEN Poems

Swerving black plane drives helpless onto water, unseen
Now the greedy hole comes to the liquid it, sippin’
From shallow ocean away vessel
To dark, tongued, toothed pit, don’t bid farewell
Human mouth ousts it unscathed back to soup basin.

-01/13/2007
(Dumarao)
*Topsy-Turvy Limerick Ironic

Oh Father God, deliver us from drunkenness
May we be overcome by mental alertness
Oh Lord Jesus, save us who are like Noah
Grant us the harmony of an orchestra
Oh Holy Spirit, rescue us from intoxication
Be our soundness to maintain our concentration
This we ask in our Almighty God. Amen.

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

Father God, let Jesus Christ fetch my soul alongwith Your Holy Spirit
Bring me to a place where there’s no more cold and heat
Let them judge me according to what they perceived
But it’s only You who truly knows how I lived
As my mortal body dies, let me say, “God is great!”

-sometime in March, April, May or June 2015
(Dumarao)

Oh Father God, we pray for faithfulness
That we endure & surpass every harshness
Oh Lord Jesus, we ask to increase our belief
That we live to the fullest our life that’s brief
Oh Holy Spirit, we beg for increased faith in God
That in life we overcome everything bad
This we implore to our Lord God. Amen.

-12/22/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems for Christian Virtues

I fear physical death because I may just go…
To the scorching yard of God’s enemies
Where I will be slave to diabolic royalties
Like an acolyte of Warcraft Undead who summon atrocities!
To the spiritual crematorium of demons who ****
Where I will be prisoner to a jail of no escape
Like Prometheus of Greek Myth as mournful as a crape!

-03/19/2015
(Dumarao)
*My Fear of Death Collection

Oh Archdemon Beelzebub, accept my abomination!
You who are called as “Chief of Gluttony”
I do not want too much stuff bloating my body!
You crave for foods more than the size of your belly
I do not need to look like a ball so puffy!
You fill yourself so your stomach will not be empty
I ***** such immoderation that leads to obesity!

-03/13/2015
(Dumarao)
*My Demons Collection

Behold PNoy in the Year of the Snake
A year of terrible typhoon & earthquake

A year of scam about pork barrel
A year in Zamboanga there’s a battle

This year’s really a great trial
A year of calamities & upheaval

But PNoy a leader who is alert
Warned the nation of imminent hurt

To places inflicted he himself went
Gave aids & comfort and slept in tent

A man for all he really is
That’s why Team PNoy had many parties

‘Coz whatever party you may belong
If you’re on Straight Path you come along

But if you’re a partymate of crime accused
To him you’ll never be excused.

-12/31/2013
(Dumarao)

So you think I’ve been deaf & blind
Who can’t hear & see from behind?

Doors & walls clearly speaking
Floors & roads plainly showing

Omens so artificial
Messages so diabolical

Tired of listening
To a cat meowing?

Want it o go hide & seek
Knowing that it’s already weak?

Wanted/Missing without search
Whipped & slashed by thorny birch

What more discreet persecution
Pack & throw, chop & burn?

Can’t imagine such ****** reckonings
Longing for more sufferings?

You think my mind shall be conditioned
With such dreadful gleamings aforementioned?

And after such ****** execution
Behold the Almighty’s retribution!

-05/22-23/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Painful Poems Collection

Plucked thee from near ground
Sprouts independent
On clayey barren
It’s the **** type one
A pretty wild “fern”!

Basco family
Neighbor but not kin
Are they owning it?
Now that it’s a ****?
Yet on their domain?

January Thirteenth
Friday Twenty Twelve
Old Nong Toging’s wake
Night before burial
Saw some my students

Neighborhood to North
Way to the crossing
Not along the road
Front concrete abode
Beside bamboo fence

Friday the Thirteenth
Last day – Amaya
Hour after watch it
Saw CapSU students
I & some cousins!

-01/13/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

For Royal Reyes’ food so chef they urgent dire
Another time, another maiden fast new hire
Spoiled children now happy they
Stuff tender hope everyday
But cook, her Excellency, finds crisis – cold fire!

-01/07/2007
(Miagao)
*Topsy-Turvy Limerick Ironic

Call me, my Lord, and I will be there
Choose me and I will answer
You are my Lord I cannot reject
Your holy voice I must respect
Let me come to the Holy See
Be ordained and serve Thee
If I am Your priest, even death cannot do us apart!

-12/12/2015
(Dumarao)
*40th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Almighty God Creator
Only You whom we adore
Other gods – there is no more!

When everything was nothing
Already there existing
Beginning of beginning

And when everything was born
Then nothingness Thee adorn
Thy sake was never forlorn

As civilizations thrive
New generations arrive
Alongwith them, Thee survive

While everything continues
Thy omnipresence subdues
All existence it imbues

Thy prowess shall still extend
All faults and flaws, still Ye mend
Until Thy creations end!

-11/27/2011
(Dumarao)
*First Incubus Collection

Sinlessness is impossible
But not for 2 people
Who became God’s noble example

They are Jesus Christ & Mary
Who were sent to humanity
To teach them how to become holy

Her Immaculate Heart purifies
His Sacred Heart sanctifies
They are God’s ultimate sacrifice!

-11/07/2015
(Dumarao)
*7th Day Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Alas!  Ouch! What is this thing pulling me out?
Off in my mother’s womb where I came about
Aray! Oh I’m now bleeding
Aray! My flesh here shredding
I’m helpless, nobody hears my soundless shout!

-01/02/2007
(Dumarao)
*Topsy-Turvy Limerick Ironic

Oh Father God, we pray for endurance
That our strength we retain & enhance
Oh Lord Jesus, we ask to preserve all trials
That we be able to withstand all upheavals
Oh Holy Spirit, we beg for resilience
That we survive and maintain our existence
This we implore to our Lord God. Amen.

-12/22/2015
(Dumarao)
*Gideons Prayer Poems for Christian Virtues

Culled thee from a bunch
Of décor for lunch
Pinned on half plant trunk
With flowers in rank
Another “fortune”!

Students & teachers
Servants & masters
Congman. Haresco
Gov. V.A. Tanco
CapSU guests, members

October Fifteen
29th Foundin’
Dumarao’s CapSU
And Gov’s Birthday too
Luncheon at noon

On Tanco Resort
No food was short
Ten long tables
Skirtings on ripples
Drinks here & there too

It is memorial
I hope not final
Almost one year here
First shake hands Gov. dear
Onwards Thirtieth!

-10/15/2011
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection

The Catholic Church is one
Its supreme head is the Pope
Infallible & authoritative like the sun

The Catholic Church is holy
For its founder itself is Jesus Christ
The Son of God, so blessed is He

The Catholic Church is universal
Aiming to reach all nations of the world
Its dominion has gone international

The Catholic Church is apostolic
Propagated by the apostles of Christ
Whose mission is prophetic & angelic.

-11/22/2015
(Dumarao)
*11th Daily Reflection from Catechism Booklet

Oh Father God, we pray for all families
That they live in prosperity, love & peace
Oh Lord Jesus, we pray for every family
That they survive every hardship & calamity
Oh Holy Spirit, we pray for society’s basic unit
That their happiness & harmony may have no limit
This we pray to our One True God. Amen.

-12/25/2015
(Dumarao)
*Prayer Poems for Christmas