Jose Villa's "Inviting a Tiger for the weekend" and "I was speaking of oranges to a lady" in World Poetry (An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to our Time) PART TWO
As a continuation to the entry on Jose Villa posted earlier in PART ONE, here is his two more poems. Jose Villa's two other poems "Inviting a Tiger for the weekend" and "I was speaking of oranges to a lady" are entertaining and light read despite the fact that I still have to point out that they do not reflect anything about or specifically Filipino. I still liked the Jose Rizal entry which I blogged about earlier. Inviting a Tiger for a Weekend Jose Garcia Villa Inviting a tiger for a weekend. The gesture is not heroics but discipline. The memories will be splendid. Proceed to dazzlement, Augustine. Banish little birds, graduate to tiger. Proceed to dazzlement, Augustine. Any tiger of whatever colour the same as jewels any stone Flames always assential morn. The guest is luminous, peer of Blake. The ghost is gallant, eye of Death. If you will do this you will break. The little religious for my sake. Invite a tiger for a weeken...