Ten Thousand Lines Project For World Peace- Giant Book

Catch the  Biggest Book in the Philippines, Ten Thousand Lines Project For World Peace. The book measures 3ft in height and 2 feet in width. The author Edwin M. Cordevilla said that he is not after the Guinness Book of World Record though. What the author wanted is to help in promoting Peace in our country.

Here's an excerpt from the non-traditional epic entitled, "Ten Thousand Lines Project For World Peace," by Manila-based poet Edwin M. Cordevilla.

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Let me begin by mocking the face of danger,

Daredeviling the unknown and the uncertain.

I swallow my pride and borrow from the sea

Some of its winds, to sail on, to keep sailing on.

A bird perches on a dead tree,

A bird that doesn’t sing but stares.

With its silent stillness it stares at me,

With its blue and white plume it stares at me,

There atop a tree that has resisted

The strength of a dozen men,

Their saws and bolos utterly useless

Against the hard skin of the dead tree,

Abode of a forest spirit for half a century,

Now killed by the expanding city,

Its green leaves that used to shelter travelers

From the heat of the sun now gone,

Its fruits that used to tempt wild and playful children 

Now mere memory, 

And the spirit returns to Mother Earth’s bosom,

Cursing the invaders of its space,

But such is reality, population multiplies

And sacred spaces become strange memory.

Alas! The persistence of men

Overcomes the timber, it falls,

Oh, how it falls with its dead root and all,

Its dead cry a thud upon hitting the ground.

I want to save it from the saws and bolos,

I want to preserve it in-front of the edifice,

I want to make it a monument of the forest

That is no longer there. But in the dead of night,

A roaring vehicle snatches the dead tree,

The dead fallen tree, to bring it

Somewhere where destiny reduces 

The once proud bearer of life to mere lumber.

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