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LULLABYE 
by Marjorie Evasco 

Grand Father, somewhere in the forest 
Of your years, the panther and the lion 

Stay still but do not sleep. Their ears 
Listen with many-veined palms of night 

To winds shivering the old branches. 
Someone young or fearless again 

Is stalking midnight. Once, in my growing 
Up stories, you taught me the secret art 

Of tracking silence. Panthers and lions 
Move with such grace, carrying amber- 

Light in their eyes. Grown old now 
You and I sit together and listen: wind 

In the blood, cold in your limbs. I bless 
The beasts by your feet, silent, untamed. 
 
 

Marjorie Evasco's second collection of poetry called "Ochre Tones: Poems in English and Cebuano" was launched last May at Edith L. Tiempo's new residence on Montemar, Sibulan, Negros Oriental. She calls this volume a "book of changes," following "Dreamweavers" which for her was a "book of origins." In another decade, Evasco hopes to finish a third collection.