Words by Angela Manalang-Gloria
Words
Angela Manalang-GloriaI never meant the words I said,
So trouble not your honest head
And never mean the words I write,
But come and kiss me now goodnight.The words I said break with the thunder
Of billows surging into spray:
Unfathomed depths withhold the wonder
Of all the words I never say.
MARGINALIA
I knew I was already wrong the moment I said that. But I can’t take it back. That’s the tragedy of speaking too soon, the folly of wanting to hurt you first before you can hurt me. Can a poem heal all wounds?
ABOUT ANGELA MANALANG-GLORIA
Angela Manalang-Gloria, born Angela Marie Legaspi Manalang on August 24, 1907, in Guagua, Pampanga, the Republic of the Philippines, was one of the major Filipina poets of the early twentieth century. The author of Poems (Self-published, 1940), she was well-known by her peers, especially for her controversial poem “Revolt of the Hymen” which protested marital rape. She died on August 19, 1995. (Source)
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Manreet
Poems may not be ablento heal wounds as such but they can give you a friend to talk with.
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roselle
what does the poem words mean?
Not Nhaya
I never think when I said all of that word too