CLEMENCIO MONTECILLO BASCAR - INSURRECTION OF CONSCIENCE

Clemencio Montecillo Bascar was a former Professor and Vice President for Corporate Affairs of the Western Mindanao State University. He is a recepient of various local, regional, and national awards in songwriting, playwriting, poetry, and public service. Several of his poems had been published in international literary magazines and journals such as, Foliate Oak , BRICKrhetoric, About Place, Torrid Literature, Mused-theBellaOnline Lietrary Review, and The Voices Project. He had written and published by the Western Mindanao State University two books of poetry, namely; "Fragments of the Eucharist" and "Riots of Convictions." In the Philippines, some of his poems appeared in the such magazines as Women's, MOD, and Chick.  
At present, he writes a column in the Zamboanga Today daily newspaper and resides at 659 Gemini Street, Tumaga, Zamboanga City, Philippines. He is married to the former Miss Melinda Climaco dela Cruz and blest with three children, Jane, Lynnette, and Timothy James.   

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                 INSURRECTION OF CONSCIENCE
 

CRIMES committed by reason
lie beyond the sphere of dissent; civilization
acquires no jurisdiction over the acts of conscience; they
reside in the landscape of abstraction; outside the limits
of human wisdom and judicial norms
 
FORCE OF ANY
gravity and  magnitude
can't bring down
the ramparts
of the mind
where dreams and fantasies
breed and blend; it's pure insanity to impose
restrictions on th dynamics of intellectual expression
 
ANY ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT
the spontaneity  and natural flow of imagination
is savagery in the genre of demons
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