GUMIL Metro Manila

ni honor blanco cabie

what pride and pleasant feeling indeed it is

to see one’s child alive with dancing feet!

from where she is on stage he parents’ bliss

she may not see, their eyes she does not meet;

her part is just a minor one among

the scores who either dance or use their tongue;

but a chord she forms as in a lilting song

that makes one happy, one be old or young;

her stint on stage will surely help her find

the elusive confidence in self that oft

has been the dream of nervous knees, the kind

that one would love to watch-so tough yet soft;

there seems to be an eternity between

the start and the curtain call-more felt that seen.

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     meralco theater, pasig, m.m. (december 9, 1979)

(BEYOND IMAGES 100 Selected Sonnets, page 4)

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