<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383449" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Old Hometown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long before it became a city-like, <br>The chirps of the crickets at night, <br>And the crows of the roosters at dawn, <br>Sunrise, mid-sun, sunset, <br>Is how we told time<br>In this place now I call it<br>My old hometown<br>So before sunrise melts the morning mists, <br>‘Till it sets across the mountains, <br>We farmed as hard as we could, <br>But no matter how poor life is, <br>This place was my paradise.<br>Like the crowns of acacia and tamarind trees<br>And the arcs of bamboo poles<br>That looks like a tunnel to the south<br>Made this place enchanting to my memories, <br>Down by the valley onward to the northwest, <br>Along the cradle of its crystal lake, <br>With choir of birds and scents of ilang-ilang, <br>There! It remained the life of my childhood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Banog Norte is a small barrio of Bani in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. Now, I also call it ‘the corner-end part of the world’ simply because it lies onto the very western tip of Central Luzon. <br> Amid the rice field, where our small house made of cogon roof, bamboo walls, and bamboo floors, I was born [here] not knowing how mother looked like. Thereby, the chirps of the crickets at night were my lullabies.<br> During my childhood, there was nothing more I enjoyed than getting soaked in the carabaos’ puddle or ride on their back elsewhere. Swimming was beyond my playful interest; thus, the choir of birds, who sang to the river, and the scents of rice straws in me have all captured in my solitude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Efren+Petalver+Carranza">Efren Petalver Carranza</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383449" data-title="My Old Hometown de Efren Petalver Carranza" data-description="Long before it became a city-like, The chirps of the crickets at night, And the crows of the roosters at dawn, Sunrise, mid-sun, sunset, Is how we told time In this place now I call it My old hometown So before sunrise melts the morning mists,..."></div> </div> </div>

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