Here are some of Francisco Arcellana famous works and read some of them below!
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA FAMOUS WORKS – These are some of the famous short stories and poems written by Francisco Arcellana.
Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist, and teacher is Francisco Arcellana who has a lot of contributions to Philippine literature. He was born on September 6, 1916, and he was young when he discovered his passion and fascination when it comes to writing.
He is a national artist and when he died on August 1, 2002, he was given the right to be laid at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Here are some of his published books:
- Selected Stories (1962)
- Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977)
- The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1990).
- Philippine PEN Anthology of Short Stories, editor (1962)
- Fifteen Stories: Story Masters 5, editor (1973)
Here are some of his short stories:
- Frankie
- The Man Who Would Be Poe
- Death in a Factory
- Lina
- A Clown Remembers
- Divided by Two
- The Mats
Here are some of his poems
- The Other Woman
- To Touch You
- I Touched Her
- I Wait For You
- Prayer
Check out a couple of his poems below:
To Touch You
Poem by Francisco Arcellana
To touch you
to kiss you
to press against you
anywhere
to break open your lips
to drink deep from your mouth
to feed long on your tongue
to root between your breasts
to brace against your body
to thrust between your thighs
powerfully
long
to die deep
and then to sleep
my right hand resting lightly on your left hip
I Wait For You
Poem by Francisco Arcellana
I wait for you
ready to leap at you
from every corner
at every turn
gathered to spring at you
from the shadow
of every tree
this is an ambush
but I am not the assassin
I wait, not with a knife,
but love, heavy, dripping in my hands.
Prayer
Poem by Francisco Arcellana
Close all open things, Lord.
Open all closed things.
All those who have long received, let them give.
All those who have long given, let them receive.
All those too long apart, let them come together.
All those too long together, sunder them.
Let the wise be fools for once, Lord,
And let the fools speak their minds.
Affirm the long-denied, Lord.
Fulfill the unfulfilled.
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