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Marne L. Kilates
55, Male
Parañaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines - Share
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- Hometown:
- Parañaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines
- Relationship Status:
- In a Relationship
- About Me:
- Art, Education, Film, Music, Reading, Spirituality, Technology, Travel, Writing
- More About Me and My World
- Mainly poetry, literature, translation, music, art, culture, popular culture, history, philsophy, the life of people/s, and of the imagination. Also, the Filipino's part in a diverse world.
My books include Children of the Snarl & Other Poems (1987), Poems en Route (1998), Mostly in Monsoon Weather (2007), and translations of contemporary Filipino poetry into English.
I publish a blog-magazine or ezine (accepting contributions of poetry, art, photography, poems on art or photography and the other visual or performing arts, or ekphrasis), called Poet's Picturebook, with the link indicated below, and a personal literary blog called All Our Nameable Days at http://nameabledays.blogspot.com/.
- Website:
- http://marnezine2.blogspot.com
- Favorite Music:
- jazz, classical, some rock, electronica & world
Continuing our little conversation... here's a poem, for my friend David and everyone, from my new book, "Mostly in Monsoon Weather" (University of the Philippines Press, 2007), and digital art from my friend Dan Pinto
War Correspondent
It was a time when hometownsWere sleepy, the world was far and its wars
Didn’t intrude in our living rooms.
(The last war we knew was our parents’,
Of which they now seldom spoke,
Having, it seemed, given up on their losses.)
But you roamed our streets in your tattered
Olive-drab, relic, it was said, of Vietnam or Clark,
Its pockets stuffed with the debris of other lives.
One hand cupped to your mouth, the other
At your ear, you were calling perhaps from some
Raging battle. Your voice mimicked the crackle
Of static Your eyes darted, your voice cracked
(The children mocked or watched you wide-eyed).
Was it rescue or assault? Was it swamp or desert?
In digital glow the breaking news
Interrupts the talk show host. You are babbling
Out-of-synch on the videophone.
You shudder with each blast, behind you
A city burns. You are embedded
In the invading force that assaults my living room.
©Marne L. Kilates
August 6, 2005
NOTE: The artwork was especially executed for the poem as one of the frames in an art & poetry exhibit called "Chromatext: Reloaded" at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2007. Chromatext is a well-attended event, the second of collaborations between Filipino artists and poets featuring art and installations from poetry or vice versa or art by the poets themselves.
Marne L. Kilates's Blog
Road Poem
Garlic Stall
(on the Road from Burgos to Laoag, northern Philippines) The dial does not measure Distance, even though We just stopped here, but the weight Of distance upon us, the way The vendors will weigh Any of the bunches of garlic Displayed on this stall, On this stretch of highway As if from and towards nowhere. It is the weight of distance Makes us strangers… ContinueSharing with CTI with pride: my poem in the new Norton anthology, "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond"
Python in the Mall
A serpent-like creature has taken residence in the dark recesses of a new shopping mall. Supposedly the offspring of the mall tycoon himself, the creature feeds, by preference, on nubile virgins. —Tabloid story She hatched in the dank Basements of our gullibility, Warmed in the gasp of ou… Continue
Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 10:30pm —
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Pictures as Signs
(from the China photography of Claro Cortes)
1. Chinese Brushes
Wands of lions
Scepters of dragons
Wings of phoenixes
Manes of stallions
Horns of oxen & rams
Moods of macaques
Romps of rapscallions
All the fates
Of the zodiac—
Worry beads of jade
Ivory & marble
Staffs of brooms
Of camel hair & squirrel
Sweeping the ether
Shaping signs
Uttering names
Of… Continue
Posted on February 17th, 2008 at 5:30am —
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Zamboanguita
Hi Friends,
A little background. I'm not sure if I can post photos in the blog section so I placed it in the photos section. The photo is not mine but by friend Claro Cortes of Reuters Beijing. It should actually go together with the poem below, which is part of my new collection of "ekphrastic" poetry (poetry inspired by or deriving from art--mainly painting, sculpture, music, dance, photography--the non-verbal arts). So when you read the poem below, please refer to… Continue
Posted on December 13th, 2007 at 11:30am —
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Great to be here at CTI
I will still have to tour myself around, nevertheless, hullooo everybody! Find me also at my blogsite, http://marnek.blogspot.com/, at Multiply, and Goodreads. There's great poetry happening in the Philippines, in the native language as well as in English. I write both my own poetry and translate poems (written in Filipino or Tagalog) from the Philippines. Perhaps like everybody else at Creative Thinkers, I am interested in what's happening in the creative world.
Marne
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Thanks for the thought. Fortunately we've been spared here in Manila, though a bit battered.
Marne
Duplicating my comment to Danny with hopes and wishes that recent storms in your part of the world left you and yours intact. Chat with you later,
Aberjhani
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Major congratulations on your inclusion in "Language for a New Century." You can count on that particular title making it to quite a few library shelves. And on top of that, the new issue of your ezine looks fantastic!
Aberjhani
In respect and admiration,
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
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Best,
Danny
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