Carlos Angeles Famous Works - Some Famous Works of the Famous Poet

Here’s are some of the famous works of Carlos Angeles, a Filipino poet.

CARLOS ANGELES FAMOUS WORKS – Read here the poem called “From The Rooftop”, one of the famous works of poet Carlos Angeles.

A famous Filipino poet with great contributions to Philippine literature is Carlos Angeles. He made the “A Stun Of Jewels”. This is a collection of 47 poems that he dedicated to his wife Concepcion Reynoso. This book received recognitions such as winning Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature when it first included the Poetry category and was awarded the Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Literature – both of these happened in 1964.

In 1993, he also did the “A Bruise of Ashes” which was published by the Ateneo University Press on 1993. Some of his famous poems were:

1. Gabu
2. Dusk
3. Landscape II
4. Badoc
5. Family Reunion
6. The Wonderful Machine
7. From the Rooftop
8. The Summer Trees

Read his poem, “GABU”, “FROM THE ROOFTOP” and “THE SUMMER TREES” below:

GABU

The battering restlessness of the sea
Insists a tidal fury upon the beach
At Gabu, and its pure consistency
Havocs the wasteland hard within its reach.

Brutal the daylong bashing of its heart
Against the seascape where, for miles around,
Farther than sight itself, the rock-stones part
And drop into the elemental wound.

The waste of centuries is grey and dead
And neutral where the sea has beached its brine,
Where the split salt of its heart lies spread
Among the dark habiliments of Time.

The vital splendor misses. For here, here
At Gabu where the ageless tide recurs
All things forfeited are most loved and dear.

It is the sea pursues a habit of shores.

FROM THE ROOFTOP

From the rooftop now, the inward eye’s
Concern, a sudden landscape and the green
Proximity confirm the space’s, the sky’s
Pleasure, and what could not be seen
Before, could be.

But for a time, it is window and door
Must shape the rectangular scene
By the neighbor’s face, by the poor
And futile garden, by the focus thin
Upon a bee,

Or a bloom that, against the summer heat,
Is dazed by my city’s rage and sun,
By the hostile space of a street
Where one by unsuccessful one
The eye must see
The human fable rise and swell and fall
And disappear beyond an actual wall.

THE SUMMER TREES

The copper sun that scalds the april boughs
Of summer, from the noon’s burst cauldron, there,
In concentrates of fury, hardly knows
The pertinence of patience the trees bear,

Who, with their metal branches, scour the air
For rumors of impending May to flood
Their throbbing thirst, or, to defy despair
The stirring breeze makes vocable and loud.

All summer long the bare trees stand and wait
While roots probe deepest for a hoard of silt
And seepage- till, silver in the sky, the late
Rains pour at last, hard where the treetops tilt.

Carlos Angeles Famous Works – Some Famous Works Of The Famous Poet

Here’s are some of the famous works of Carlos Angeles, a Filipino poet.

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