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Marcelo de Gracia Concepcion: Silent Trails

The poem describes silent trails in the Benguet hills of the Philippines. When the mist veils the sun, the wind stirs the ferns and bamboo brakes sing their echoed murmurs. Laden Benguet women pass, beating their pakkongs in cadenced monotones. Even so, these trails are lonely and the ravines are deep while the skies are higher still.

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Marcelo de Gracia Concepcion: Silent Trails

The poem describes silent trails in the Benguet hills of the Philippines. When the mist veils the sun, the wind stirs the ferns and bamboo brakes sing their echoed murmurs. Laden Benguet women pass, beating their pakkongs in cadenced monotones. Even so, these trails are lonely and the ravines are deep while the skies are higher still.

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SILENT TRAILS

Marcelo de Gracia Concepcion

Silent trails
Silent are the trails of Benguet hills,
When the mist veils the sun -
Even when the wind stirs the ferns
And the bamboo brakes sing
Their echoed murmurs.

And the laden Benguet women pass;


Beating their pakkongs*
In cadenced monotones.

Even so,
These trails are lonely...
And deep are the ravines,
And higher still the skies.

* A bamboo percussion instrument used by the Benguets to accompany their chants.


Name: ___________________________________________ Score: _______________
Course: ________________________________ Professor: ______________________

I. Testing One’s Word Power

Give a synonym or antonym for each of the following words as used in the
poem.
1. trail - ___________________________________________________________

2. veil - ___________________________________________________________

3. strir- ___________________________________________________________

4. laden-__________________________________________________________

5. cadence-________________________________________________________

6. ravine-__________________________________________________________

7. monotone-_______________________________________________________

8. mist-____________________________________________________________

9. echo-___________________________________________________________

10. murmur-_________________________________________________________

II. Checking One’s Understanding


Answer the following questions.

1. Pick out the “nature images” contained in the poem. Have you actually seen those
images in the hills and trails of Baguio?

2. Describe the Benguet women as visualized in the poem.

3. Do you approve of the poet’s use of the word “lonely” to describe the trails in the
last stanza?

4. Why are the skies “higher still” in the last stanza?

III. Enrichment Activity


Draw the “nature images” contained in stanza 1.

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