Philip Emmanuel Penaflor
Philip Emmanuel Penaflor
Philip Emmanuel Penaflor Poems
The gentle wind moaned
softly as I caressed your
tender body wrapped into
mine in a rhythmic ritual
...
Do your hear the silent agony of the
innocent as they lay still in the night?
We share their haunting nightmares
...
when it becomes an instrument
of division among his children;
when it is used as an instrument
of control and domination;
...
No silver dewdrops to greet the break of a summer dawn
but the sparkling crystal frosts against the chilly winter sun,
procrastinate my spirit in a dazzling but tranquil lullaby;
Flee my mind with the wings of a fading poignant memory to
...
Would you rather let loose the sword of Damocles
dangling above my head so I could unmask the
wolf beneath my sheepskin which is suffocating
my spirit as I gaze upon the plains of Aibak from
...
I played Nietze because you played
a harlot for a Machiavelli whom you
molded a hero bigger than himself;
You knew I was ever a non-believer.
...
Did you not tell me once that
wherever I go you will find me?
The cast may be new but it’s the
same old story and you cannot
...
I see you from afar from this Gudele hill
where I stand my sight unmarred by the
clattered tin sheets over the plains of Juba
shining against the silver sky on Jebel Kujur
...
I stepped out of my room when the power
suddenly went down as my laptop became
useless, so was my mind
which had gone ahead
...
I was awakened by the solemn pitter-patter of the rain
which sounded like the monks' early Gregorian vespers;
no joyful chirping of the humming birds at daybreak,
no yelling ladies selling bread as their morning ritual;
...
I woke up in the middle of the night
because I thought I heard someone
called my name;
I opened my door and let the wind in
...
Your charm allures the gullible who
thought they found love while bedazzled
in their naivety by your scheming beauty;
And they worship you like a goddess,
...
You call yourselves learned
because you have been schooled
in the best universities of the world;
And by your titles and degrees you
...
The sun smiles in the morning to unveil
the silver dewdrops from the night’s chill;
lovebirds chanting on the tree by my
window warm up my heart as I wake up
...
I passed by the road sprinkled with wine from Olympus
where the gods feast on the misery of lesser mortals
who storm the heavens with their litany of woes as they
battle for whatever dignity is left their worth against
...
I was raised a knight
of the Spartan order,
or better, a sphinx,
and no storm or thunder
...
Should I rather be the gentle wave that hums
a melody with the night wind's serenade
resounding across the waters and bringing me
to the shore to wrap it with my embrace?
...
I saw you naked through the blur of the nightmarish future,
enkindling the flame of a hopeless desire which had become
a dead fantasy, a banal devotion of the past;
for there are visions that shall never come to be.
...
Life is not about diplomas or high positions or high paying jobs;
It's not about popularity or influence or oblivion;
It's not about how rich or poor one is;
It's not about the ambitions and desires left unfulfilled
...
Philip Emmanuel Penaflor Biography
Philip Emmanuel C. Peñaflor has extensive experience in development work with both government and non-government organizations in various capacities such as program management, monitoring and evaluation, management of NGO networks, capacity development, network-building and multi-stakeholder relations; his professional experience in development work encompasses diverse sectors including food security, agrarian reform and rural development, environment and sustainable development, disaster risk-reduction, institution development, peace and security, grassroots social movements and Church and social issues. He is a former Executive Director of the Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (PhilDHRRA) , a national NGO network involved in sustainable rural development. From 2005 to 2009 he served as Program Specialist on Monitoring and Evaluation with the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) , an international development organization with headquarters in the Philippines. At IIRR he was the focal point for Monitoring and Evaluation of PROLINNOVA, an international network promoting local innovation on ecologically-centered agriculture and natural resources management. Philip Emmanuel Peñaflor has worked in the pre-independence Southern Sudan (Africa) , first as Technical Adviser on Monitoring and Evaluation for the Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries (MARF) of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) based in Juba, under a Multi-Donor Trust Fund administered by the World Bank, and then as Technical Adviser on Monitoring and Evaluation of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) in Juba. He has also worked as monitoring and evaluation consultant of the Swedish Committe for Afghanistan based in Kabul, Afghanistan (2012-2013) , and as Performance Monitoring Specialist for the Vanuatu Inter-Island Shipping Project with the Roughton International (2013-2014) . He is currently adviser of the Unified Monitoring and Evaluation System of the " Basic Education Assistance for Muslim Mindanao (BEAM-ARMM) program of the Department of Education in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) of the Government of Australia (2015-2017) . He has earned his PhD degree in Applied Cosmic Anthropology from the Asian Social Institute (ASI) , Manila, where he obtained his Master’s Degree in General Sociology. He also holds a Master’s Course in National Security Administration from the National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP) and is a commissioned Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. (contact details: philip.penaflor@gmail.com; philpen01@yahoo.com))
The Best Poem Of Philip Emmanuel Penaflor
A Night Wind's Song
The gentle wind moaned
softly as I caressed your
tender body wrapped into
mine in a rhythmic ritual
that brings our minds to the
utter surrender of the
consciousness
into the depths of
unconsciousness;
Tonight we shall conquer
the universe once more
where our spirits roam free
each time we drink
the dewdrops on our lips
and quench our thirst for
freedom from knowing
and soar into unknowing!
The shadow of the moon
lingers deep into the night,
the cold bites creeping slowly
through my stale bed but I
lay me down dreaming of
the warmth of your embrace,
pretending you were
with me tonight.
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'In the near future, if not now, we will have to look at the world as our common home and all its inhabitants as equal citizens of the world. Therefore we will have to treat each other as fellow citizens, as brothers and sisters, who have the same aspirations as human persons and the same responsibilities of taking care of each other regardless of country, race or creed. This is how we are going to survive, not as nations with distinct interests although maintaining cultural identities, but as a species on the planet with a common hope of building a better human world.'
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