Filipino Poet, Writer and Educator
by Luis G. Dato I Dear Mary, Mother of Christ, whom all these years The faithful have, next but to God, believed, God’s virgin Mother, without sin conceived, Our Queen in heaven who our pleas all hears, Past two millenia…
by Luis G. Dato Some think like Bertrand Russel, they deny As at all possible that through vast space Mary could join her loved One in the sky — But who shall know God’s infinite light of Grace? And few…
by Luis G. Dato When bruised with pain, my soul would agitate And hearken mandates from unholy power, To find my self in the unhallowed hour Faithless, and Satan whispers at the gate; When I surrender to the voice of…
By Luis G. Dato Grey on its ancient rise of ground, it stands Against the icy rain’s unceasing spears, The streets with rich homes dotted commands - Uninterruptedly the sky sheds tears. A passing beggar throws a brief, bleak glance…
By Luis G. Dato At Christmas time the nights are dark and chill, But over all the world resplendent sill The Star of Bethlehem we all can see, Rejoicing in the Lord’s Nativity. All to the Church will gather swain…
By Luis G. Dato I The incense hangs on gilded Christmas shrines, Warm tapers bathe the walls in amber glow, In mumbled prayer, bead-counted prayer low, Devouts, deep-veiled, all drowse upon their lines, Anon with peals from drums and tambourines,…
By Luis G. Dato The bells of Christmas let them ring At Jesus’ birth, our Lord, our King, The stars of Heaven let their light Fill all the world this X’mas night. Lo! from the East the Three Wise Men…
By Luis G. Dato O frosty stars of Christmas night, Like candles in the sky they glow And shed their never-changing light As of two thousand years ago. Two thousand years, two thousand years, What ghastly greed, what bloody wars!…
By Luis G. Dato The Christmas season, it is here The gladsomest of all the year. Two thousand years or so this morn To Virgin Mary Christ was born. Long, long ago, in Bethlehem, In a low manger lay the…
