Any Woman Speaks by Angela Manalang-Gloria
Any Woman Speaks
Angela Manalang-GloriaHalf of the world’s true glamour
Is held–you know by whom?
Not by the gilt Four Hundred
Parading in perfume,Nor by the silvered meteors
That light the celluloid sky–
But by these eyes that called you,
Blind fool who passed me by!
MARGINALIA
Putting up the last three poems that I have of this brilliant woman.
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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