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Lesson 3 Haiyan Dead

The document discusses the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan which devastated Leyte in the Philippines in 2013. It describes how the "Haiyan dead" continue to wander the streets, looking for what was taken from them by the storm - their homes, families, possessions and lives. The poem expresses how the dead will remain sleepless and continue searching as they try to find meaning and make sense of what was destroyed in the storm.

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Lesson 3 Haiyan Dead

The document discusses the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan which devastated Leyte in the Philippines in 2013. It describes how the "Haiyan dead" continue to wander the streets, looking for what was taken from them by the storm - their homes, families, possessions and lives. The poem expresses how the dead will remain sleepless and continue searching as they try to find meaning and make sense of what was destroyed in the storm.

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“The Haiyan Dead”

Merlie M. Alunan
Leyte
Visayas

Leyte
Province of Leyte

Eastern Visayas 2,388,518 Tacloban City


(2015)

5,712.80 sq. km. Waray, Cebuano


Red Beach

The Sto. Niño Shrine


And Heritage Museum
Leyte Landing
Memorial

The San Juanico


Bridge
Choco Moron

Binagol
About Merlie M. Alunan…
✔Born: December 14, 1943
✔Place: Dingle, Iloilo
✔Graduated at Silliman University
✔Teaches Creative Writing at the
Creative Writing Center,
UP Visayas Tacloban College
✔She lives in Tacloban City
Awards…

Ani ng
Dangal
✔ Lillian Jerome Thornton Award for
Nonfiction
✔ Sunthorn Phu Literary Awards
Works…
✔ Heartstone: Sacred Tree
✔ Amina among the angels
✔ Selected poems
✔ Kabilin: 100 years of Negros Oriental
✔ Fern Garden: An Anthology of Women
Writing in the South
✔ Songs of ourselves(Anthology)
“The Haiyan Dead”
Merlie M. Alunan
Leyte
do not sleep
They walk our streets
climb stairs of roofless houses
latchless windows blown-off doors
they are looking for the bed by the window
cocks crowing at dawn lizards in the eaves
they are looking for the men
who loved them at night the women
who made them crawl like puppies
to their breasts babes they held in arms
the boy who climbed trees the Haiyan dead
are looking in the rubble for the child
they once were the youth they once were
the bride with flowers in her hair
red-lipped perfumed women
white-haired father gap-toothed crone
selling peanuts by the church door
the drunk by the street lamp waiting
for his house to come by the girl dreaming
under the moon the Haiyan dead are
looking for the moon washed out
in a tumult of water that melted their
bodies
they are looking for the bodies that once
move to the dance to play
to the rhythms of love moved
in the simple ways---before wind
lifted sea and smashed it on land---
of breath talk words shaping
in their throat lips tongues
the Haiyan dead are looking
for a song they used to love a poem
a prayer they had raised that sea had
swallowed before it could be said
the Haiyan dead are looking for
the eyes of God suddenly blinded
in the sudden murk white wind
seething
water salt sand black silt---and that is
why
the Haiyan dead will walk among us
endlessly sleepless---
FIGURES OF SPEECH
1. SIMILE - a figure of speech
involving the comparison of one
thing with another thing of a
different kind, used to make a
description more emphatic or vivid,
with the use of “like” and “as”.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
2. METAPHOR - is a figure
of speech that describes an
object or action in a way that
isn't literally true, but helps
explain an idea or make a
comparison.
CREDITS and REFERENCES

21ST Pia Google Revolvy


CENTURY
BOOK .gov.ph Images .com

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