The United States would support the Marcos dictatorship disguised as a “constitutional coup d’etat”

We walked uphill where tall cogon grasses were already starting to don their silver shade.

Rebolusyonaryong panulaan noong panahon ng batas militar |
Revolutionary poetry during the martial law years

I became a full-time community organizer in 1971. The Marcos government declared martial law in September 1972. A month later, the Marcos military came and arrested me.