Hindi maintindihan kung bakit
Pakiramdam ko’y mundo ay nagsikip
At tila lahat ng sasakyan
Ay iisa ang patutunguhan
Sa lapad at haba naman ng kalsada
Nitong tinatahak kong Edsa
Di ma wari kung bakit
Para akong naiipit
Bakit ba ganito ang pagsulong
Ang andar ko’y usad pagong
May naganap bang banggaan?
O tindi lang ng dami ng sasakyan?
Pilit na nilalabanan ang antok,
Pati matinding sakit ng batok.
Samahan mo pa ng hapo ng katawan
At kumakalam na tiyan.
Para oras ay palipasin,
Pati inip ay pawiin,
Kesa sarili ay inisin
Sa haba pa ng babyahihin
Bakit di ko subukin
Na sa tula’y isalin
Ang hilakbo ng damdamin
Sa sariling wika natin
Wrote this poem back in the Philippines stuck in traffic. Wasn’t supposed to post it yet, but instead of clicking ‘save draft’ I clicked on “publish”.
The Aimless Rambler 
I like the poem. Do you have a poetry group in Manila?
Hi Cheese Chomp Dad! I don’t know if we do. I’m in Canada now and it would be great if we could do a all Filipino poetry group here in WordPress. that would be so cool specially for us Filipinos all over the globe.
galing, clap clap clap… naku, masarap gumawa ng tula sa haba ng traffic sa edsa, hehe. ang aking “the wheel of fortune”, sa aking pagkaka-alala ay nai-satula habang binabagtas ang kalsada edsa hahaha. at maraming pang iba.
Naaalala kong naitype ko yang tulang yan sa cellphone dahil parang parking lot ang edsa at naka patay na ang makina ng kotse ko dahil sa tagal.
grabeng usad malamang noong araw na iyon, hahaha.
Well, galing akong makati and was driving back to Ortigas during rush hour, so yeah, grabe talaga ang traffic noong araw na yun 😛
napakaganda ng nabuo mong tula. 🙂 mahusay.
Salamat po kuya! 😀
sigh naku, feeling matanda na talaga ako.
hahahahahahaha! gumagalang lang po. pero feeling ko mas matanda ako sayo
Could never write a Tagalog poem. I don’t know too many words to make sense. Hahaha. 😀
I like this because it gives that feeling of helplessness when you’re stuck somewhere. In traffic, or something else.
I find our language more romantic and sincere somehow. And it’s so much easier to rhyme.
I do, too. Only I’m Bisaya and that’s why it’s so difficult to write in Filipino. 🙂
So that’s why you write so good in English!
Going to bed hungry was never easy, especially when you have bodily pains.
Worsened by the knowledge that there’s food but you can’t eat any because “the doctor said so.”
Wish I knew what that meant 😦 BTW “Tula” is the name of my dog’s mother (her REAL doggy mother, not me lol)
Oh really? “Tula” (accent on the ‘a’) in Filipino means Poem. I wrote that poem when I was still in the philippines stuck in traffic 🙂