MUNICIPALITY (NOW CITY) OF LIGAO, ALBAY, Historical Data of Part 4

PART IV

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The fairy appeared and told Cacusugan: “We gave you gifts because you were different from the other mortals. Your love promised to grow into something greater than all earthly loves. But you both failed to live up to it. You, with your insolent faith in the power and strength we gave you, she, with her faithlessness giving up something that would have lasted for ages and ages, for something that was only transient, a love born of discontentment. Now she has been turned to stone and because I knew you loved her dearly, you shall be turned to stone too.” Saying this the fairy struck Cacusugan with her wand turning him to stone too, lying beside the other stone.

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NAMES OF FILIPINO AUTHORS BORN OR RESIDING IN THE COMMUNITY, THE TITLES AND SUBJECTS OF THEIR WORKS, AND THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS POSSESSING THEM.

I – SERAPION RUIVIVAR

Mr. Serapion Ruivivar was both a writer and a translator. He translated the following articles from Spanish to Bicol.

1. Pahinas dela Infancia
2. Passion a Jesucristo
3. Rizal’s “To the Women of Malolos”

He wrote also the following poems and essays in Bicol.

1. The Wounded Heart
2. Con Paano an Pagialangan Can Inaapod na “Dia del Trabajo”
3. An Abecedario nin Pagcabuhay (Dolot sa magna Tugang Nlang Paraaldao)
4. An Pagsamoot (Dolot sa sarong balo)

These writings of his are in the possession of his daughter, Rosario Ruivivar. They are all in manuscript form.

II – ANASTACIA ALIORDE SALAZAR

Mrs. Anastacia A. Salazar has written several poems in Spanish and a few short stories in English. Her works are:

1. Las Flores
2. Mi Vida Parati
3. Lloro de Veras
4. Flor a Mi Patria
5. Hymn to Saint Stephen
6. The Fatal End of a Vicious Man

The last title in the list is a short story printed once in one of the issues of the Philippines Free Press. She writes essays and short poems, now and then when she is inspired but she seldom send these writings for publication. Some of her writings are in her possessions.

III – ANASTACIO CANCILLER

Mr. Anastacio Canciller has added quite a number of pieces to the community’s literature. He wrote the “Legend of Mt. Mayon” in prose. “In Fair Ligao” is a poem which was published. It gave the readers a description of the simple town of Ligao. He wrote also an essay, “Come With Me to Albay.” “The White Angel” is another poem dedicated to a nurse who later became his wife. Mr. Canciller has written others and most of them have been published.

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IV – JOSEFINA A. SALAZAR RUIVIVAR

A writer of unquestionable ability, Josefina S. Ruivivar writes with fluency in prose and in verse. Once the co-editor of the U.S.T. Varsitarian, she was a campus personality in her student days. Most of her works, both in Spanish and in English had won the admiration of contemporary writers of renown. She has written essays, poems, short stories and plays, most of which were published. She was about to compile her works in a book but the Japanese atrocities cut short in compilation which found its tragic end in the smoke. She has produced about five hundred literary pieces, a few of which are the following:

POEMS

1. My Philippines
2. Where the Bamboos Bend
3. Threnody
4. On Looking at a Bride’s Picture
5. From Your Stars Look Down
6. As Twilights Fall
7. Old Age, Tell Youth
8. On Looking at a Picture of a Bridal Couple
9. I Thought I Love the Rain
10. The Shadow of the Rising Sun
11. Long Live the Philippine Commonwealth
12. Liberty on Philippines Shores
13. Beloved
14. As I your Vigil Keep
15. One May Evening
16. Beloved You Failed to Come Again
17. Honeymoon
18. A Would – Be Bride’s Lament
19. Man and Wife
20. Invocation: To Rizal
21. Disillusionment
22. Only These Ashes
23. My Rosary
24. Tears
25. Lives
26. The Death of One Twilight
27. Diamonds in Toy Bazars
28. Dreams I Have No More
29. But This Night Must Fall
30. The Tyranny in the Past
31. A Little Smoke Lost in Air

ESSAYS

1. Religion and Love
2. But This Night Must End
3. Raindrops On a Petal
4. Gone is a Word Like Dying
5. Silhouettes Against Westering Sun

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SHORT STORIES

1. Florecillas
2. Darling, the Bells
3. The Flight of a Dream

PLAYS

1. Sacred Heart
2. The Light That Failed Not
3. Pampered Projects
4. Her Choicest Blessings
5. Hansel and Gretel (in Poetry

All these works of Josefina S. Ruivivar are in her possessions except a few which perished when the family resident was burned.

V – CARMEN CHAVEZ CAM (1910 – )

Born of humble parents and leading a very religious life, Mrs. Carmen C. Cam has written a number of poems which are religious in nature. Some of the poems are dedicated to her beloved ones, especially her intimate friends and co-teachers.

The titles of her poems are the following:

1. A reverie
2. MaFoi
3. A Tryst
4. Magnolia Bud
5. I Address Thee, child
6. My Harvest
7. When a Man Is Not a Man
8. Why the Blue?
9. To the Blessed Virgin
10. Alluring Moon
11. Echoes to Fate
12. I Love Thee, O Cemetery
13. I Thing It Worthwhile For Me
14. I Am Sorry for Thee
15. I Thought Before
16. My Perfect Trust In Thee
17. Give Me Back My Days

All these poems are in manuscript form. The writer, who is too modest, thinks that they are too personal in mood and therefore they are not worth publishing. They are treasured by her and she plans to destroy them before she dies.

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