Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Kundiman - Filipino Love Song Redone by Me

Kundiman - Filipino Love Song - Redone

kundiman

kun hindi man?

kung - if

hindi - not

man - possible

if not possible


if it isn't possible

then what is?


it's meaning

s-p-e-l-l-e-d out

in mama's tongue

the more shimmery meaning

reads like lilting feathers falling

in the air

"a love song who's beauty

sets itself to music"


in lola's era

someone who

had a beau

would sing kundimans

to catch that young girl's ears


if it isn't possible

then what is?


in my time it's all

phonetics & phonics & by ear

a sense of order

to the puzzle

of the extra sensory


listening to what I say

come full face forward

not sideways head unturned

whether I do or don't


if it isn't possible

then what is?


many seasons once shimmered

in my chest

before this time & met with the

rain of spring

do again come

do not hush

those feathery prayers

without my wings


if it isn't possible

then what is?


like a catalyst without heat

or a wave missing its capped crest

not foreign but yet foolish & absolute

the constant reunion back home

from a long ongoing longing to

a destination by deciphering bit by bit

and finally deciding

to wake-up from this dream


if it isn't possible

then what is?


man - possible

hindi - not

kung - if

kung hindi man?

possible not if

kundiman

mama's tongue

lola's era

my time

my phonics & phonetics by ear

to make sense of the extrasensory

Currently listening:
A Change Is Gonna Come
By Leela James
Release date: By 21 June, 2005

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