Songs of the Bamboo

I decided to create a new blog which will serve as my tanka e-journal, entitled Songs of the Bamboo. For my first post, I'm featuring a tanka which I dedicate to my friends with whom I cruised with around four summers ago along the restful Loboc river in Bohol Island, where rare tarsiers thrive. A multi-awarded local film set in that island, entitled Panaghoy sa Suba (Call of the River) which was shown last December 2004, inspired me to write the poem.