Ode to Coconut Tree @Sunken Garden, University of the Philippines, Diliman

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Ode to Coconut Tree @Sunken Garden, University of the Philippines, Diliman.
"Buko ka ba? -Bakit?- Puno ka kasi ng Buhay"
("Are you a coconut? -Why?- Because you are a Tree of Life")

Ode to Coconut Tree @Sunken Garden, University of the Philippines, Diliman

Coconut @wikipedia

Original Tagalog version:

...kung 'di mo kayang magsulat ng tula: hayaang ikaw ang maging tula

"Buko ka ba?" -Bakit?- "Puno ka kasi ng Buhay"

Depende sa liwanag; unang tingin ko sa chalk ng kaalaman, ay puti
Lumaon ito'y naging bughaw, berde, itim, pula -minsan yellow pa
Hanggang ang tinta: sa di-tuldok na limbagan ay hirap kong maaninag

Ang pag-asa ng kaalaman ay wala sa chalk o edad
Ito ay dalisay na tubig: sa loob ng umuusbong na bunga
Sa sarili mong panahon, ugat at laman

--Ode to Coconut Tree @Sunken Garden
pic: Buko@Wikipedia

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English Version:

... if you can not write a poem: let it be that you are the poem

"Are you a coconut?" - Why?- "Because you are a Tree of Life"

Depending on light, My first glance at the chalk of knowledge, is white
Later it became blue, green, black, red, once in a while it is even yellow
Until the ink: in modern impressions is hard to reflect

The hope of knowledge is not in any chalk or age
It is pure as water: in budding fruits
In your own time, root and flesh

- Ode to Coconut Tree @ Sunken Garden
pic: Coconut @Wikipedia

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