Ermita in the Rain by Angela Manalang-Gloria
Ermita in the Rain
Angela Manalang-GloriaIt is not the rain that wanly
Sobs its tale across the bay,
Not the sobs of lone acacias
Trembling darkly in the gray,Not the groans of harried breakers
Flinging tatters on the shore,
But the phantom of your voice that
Stays me dreaming at my door.
MARGINALIA
One of my projects is to create a collection of poems where I live. This is one of my inspirations.
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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