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IF THERE'S A WAY/Music and lyrics Nonilon V. Queano/6Feb.2015

IF THERE’S A WAY

-Music and lyrics: Nonilon V. Queano/6Februarry2015

1.

If there’s a way to reach out to the stars,

And bend all wishes to what we all desire

Would you be here when I call

Would you come listen at all

Would you come help me

Tear down all the walls

2.

If there’s a way of turning things around

Or otherwise, hold back the hands of time

I’d trace the route to freedom

There must be one such good land

Where no predators

Come to drop their bombs

Coda:

And wars and fighting had no place

And we can fly away

Proclaiming love and freedom

Everyday

If there is such a way

3.

But sadly, indeed, is there such a world

Sure, I heard of Cuba on the news report

If there’s a way to reach out

And all good people listen

Wouldn’t we all have

Peace and live in love?

Coda:

And we can fly away

Proclaiming love and freedom

Everyday

If there such a way

That human greed would end,

And imperialist wars

Stop

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PAG-IBIG AT PAKIKIBAKA

-  Music and lyrics:  Nonilon V. Queano/14February2015

1.

Nais ko lang muna sanang magpasalamat

Sa lahat ng mga ginawa mong pagmumulat

Maraming pagkakataong sa hirap di makaalpas

At ang pag-asa’y palayong lumilipad

2.

Dumadaan ang oras ng mga pagsubok

Ngunit alam kong hindi manghihina ang loob

Sa tag-ulan o tag-unos  patuloy ang ‘yong pagkilos

At sa umaga sana tayo’y aabot

Refrain:

Sadyang mayroong panahong  lahat tila nagtatagal

Hindi alam kung kailan kita muling matatanaw

Subali’t ang pag-ibig na sa digmaan ay pinanday

Sinlawak ng kalawakang lagi nating nilalakbay

3.

Sa pamuling paglisan pagdadapithapon

Hindi tiyak kung hanggang kailan ang pagsulong

Marahil ay ilang buwang tayo muling maglalayo

Ngunit yakap yakap kita sa ‘king puso.

ON POPE FRANCIS’S VISIT TO THE PHILIPPINES/- NONILON V. QUEANO/28January2015/New York

ON POPE FRANCIS’S VISIT TO THE PHILIPPINES

- NONILON V. QUEANO/28January2015/New York

So it comes down to these:

The faith that moves mountains,

Hope eternal.

Shouts of joy and anguish

At sight of the Pope

Wading across the immaculate field,

Through the smithy of our memory of time;

Cries camouflaging pain,

Poverty, perhaps despair,

Rising to prayers for salvation

In symphony

With the palavering masses

From other worlds and far-off places.

We have not seen

An ocean or a conflagration, as it were,

So cosmic and phantasmal,

In a long time:

Praise be the Maker.

And yet we’ve always known

In our hearts,

The music of the stars.

So what is there to fear.

Among the madding crowd,

Where draw the line,

Between the unenlightened,

And the committed;

The oblivious,

And the wide-eyed;

The will-o’-the-wisps,

Fireweeds,

Ayahuascas,

And Jesus’s crown of thorns;

Where lies the fault.

Among all peoples

Struggling to break free,

Dreaming of paradise,

.

So, we are all God’s children,

But left perhaps

To wander around the planet

On our own;

What does it mean

To be catholics or communists,

Or atheists,

Does it matter, indeed,

What faiths we profess,

If the same golden heart abides

And bleeds for the poor and the oppressed.

Though infinite the voices and signs of language,

Wouldn’t everything align

In the presence of this caring, loving heart,

Compassionate, merciful

Defining with such invincibility,

Our common realities, locations, ideologies.

At least, we owe to Pope Francis, the truth.

That for the heartless few:

The greedy, warmongering capitalists,

Imperialists and their minions,

Terrorists and Beelzebubs:

They all will jettison,

Be thrown to the pit,

Where there will be no poetry

Nor music,

But the horrible clucking of tongues,

Shrill, execrable cries

Of eternal suffering,

Monsantuan torment,

Foul smell,

Untold pain,

Fighting and unending discord,

Bodies gangrened and torn apart,

Twisted faces,

Phlegethonian rivers of blood,

And Cocytus and Satan himself

Buried in ice and freezing dead

For all eternity,

In the coldest, coldest, darkest night

May Araw na Di Mabuksan

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ANG LAHA/T NG SANDALI/ My song for the New Year 2015/ Music and lyrics mine

ANG LAHAT NG SANDALI

- Words and music by Nonilon V. Queano

(Melody line idea sans coda/refrain composed in August, 2014; words and music finalized and completed on 2 January 2015)

1.

Ang lahat ng sandali sadyang naglalakbay

Lagi nang paimbulog sa lawak ng araw

Tila ba kahapon lang paslit na naparaan

Ngayo’y nagbabalik daigdig ay pasan

Papaano ba tutuloy ang paggalaw?

2.

Sa ibabaw ng hirap minsan’y nangingiti

At sa bawa’t pagluha yakap ang sandali

Ang mga nakaniig na sinta’t kaibigan

Sa maulap na landas hirap  masilayan

May panahon bang maidlip?

(Coda)

At ngayong Bagong Taon muli’t muli’y inaaninag

Ang araw ng pag-ibig sana’y walang wakas

Sa gitna ng mga awit at pagdiriwang,

Ang pusong naglayag, laging lumilisan

3.

Ang lahat ng sandali ngayo’y papalayo

Tila ba hangin lamang tayong bumubugso

Ngunit pag-asay buhay kahit magpakailanman

At bukas pamuling sisikat ang araw

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