tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33330539.post-51546024416505906412007-12-31T20:18:00.000-08:002007-12-31T20:21:51.037-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_lpg6rYxtNhc/R3m_dgdMx5I/AAAAAAAAAoQ/3kYor0_PeIg/s1600-h/hakone-bridge.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_lpg6rYxtNhc/R3m_dgdMx5I/AAAAAAAAAoQ/3kYor0_PeIg/s320/hakone-bridge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150358162524391314" /></a><br />Pictured: Hakone Town near Odawara<br /><br />In Odawara - Poem<br />Literary Review, Spring, 2000 by Jose Wendell Capili<br /><br /><br /> When it is not raining in Odawara,<br /> I climb a mountain path where I can see<br /> the feudal lord's castle, chrysanthemums<br /> unfolding autumn wind and spice,<br /> sun beams peeping though clouds,<br /> eaves where my lover slept once.<br /><br /> Over cups of wine, I sit on pebbles,<br /> listen to bamboo flutes and a banjo<br /> with four strings recollecting music<br /> from the clasping of watermelon vines.<br /> At night, I put out bonfires on rocks<br /> by the stream shrouded in evening mist.<br /> I am hidden among Odawara's foliage<br /> keeping a lamentation's peculiar mind and ear.<br /><br />About the Author:<br /><br />Jose Wendell Capili graduated with degrees from the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines Diliman, University of Tokyo, and the University of Cambridge where he received an MPhil in Social Anthropology. He received prizes, awards and fellowships for his poetry, essays and academic research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Korea Foundation, Cambridge Overseas Trust, Carlos Palanca Foundation, Cultural Center of the Philippines, and others. He is an assistant professor of English, Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is the author of A Madness of Birds, a poetry collection Short Circuit, and Multiculturalism, a book of criticism co-authored with Joseph McCallus. He is currently working on Mindoro and Beyond: A Biography of National Artist NVM Gonzalez.<br /><br />COPYRIGHT 2000 Fairleigh Dickinson University<br />COPYRIGHT 2000 Gale Groupgreatpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074686566728422023noreply@blogger.com