The way the Ideas think me

JOSE GARCIA VILLA

The way my ideas think me

Is the way I unthink God.
As in the name of heaven I
make hell
That is the way the Lord says
me.

And all is adventurer and danger

And I roll Him off cliffs and
mountains
But fast as I am to push Him off
Fast am I to reach Him below.

And it may be then His turn to

push me off,
I wait breathless for that terrible
second:
And if He push me not, I turn
around in anger:
O art thou the God I would have!

Then He pushes me and I plunge

down, down!
And when He comes to help me
up
I put my arms around him, saying,
Brother, . . . This is the way we
are.

Jose Garcia Villa

- was born on August 5, 1908, (Manilas Singalong
District)
- He graduated from the University of the Philippines
Integrated School and the University of the Philippines
High School in 1925.
- His parents were Simeon Villa And Guia Garcia.
- he was a Filipino Poet, Literary critic, short story writer
and painter.
- He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines
title for literature in 1973.

Writing career
1929
1933
1942
1949

- Man Songs
- Footnote to Youth
- Have Come, Am Here
Comma Poems

Death
- On February 05 1997, at the age of 88, Jose
was found in a coma in his New York
apartment and rushed to St. Vincent Hospital
in the Greenwich Village Area.

-His Death two days later, February 07, was

attributed to Cerebral stroke and multilobar
pneumonia. He was buried on February 10 in
St. Johns Cemetery in New York, Wearing a
Barong Tagalog.