Mario Relampagos' Fishing Village: Where Thoughts and Ideas Converge

 Mario Relampagos' Fishing Village: 

Where Thoughts and Ideas Converge 

Pastel drawing by former Usec Mario Relampagos, Department of Budget, a scene on a bridge overlooking a fishing village in  Catbalogan, Eastern Samar 1986.

Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor

Fishing Village in Catbalogan, a gift to the author from Usec Mario Relampagos, a co-worker in SIRDP (Samar Integrated Rural Development Project).

Thoughts flow down the sea, 

or anchored on the shore,

at one time or another;

life's like the fishers' chore.

Ideas soar up high into the sky,

beyond thought and sea crest,

neither by the sun's rise and set, 

nor a good night's rest. 

If thoughts were drawn by hand

from a bridge to far away 

dare to leave land and out to sea, 

or one would rather stay. 

Least understood is he who holds

the paint brush over canvas; 

where thoughts and ideas into ideals 

converge and hold fast. ~