Untitled Tanaga

Father crossed from Philippines.
He came in coldest winter.
Sought new life, home, beginnings…
A handsome orchid transplant.

Robert Francis Flor graduated from Seattle University with a B.A. (1966) and M.A. in Education (1975) and, in 1978, earned a doctorate in Higher Education from the University of Oregon. An emerging writer, he has had poems published in the Tamlyfur Mountain Poetry Review, Poets Against the War, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Field of Mirrors anthology. Robert is a member of the Washington Poets Association, the Filipino Cultural Heritage Society, Artist Trust and take playwriting courses at Freehold Theater in Seattle.

[Editor's Note: A tanaga is a type of short Filipino poem consisting of four lines with seven syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line... more info]