In loving memory of my beautiful mother, Aurora Rosales Panganiban (10/11/1922 - 08/31/2014), and for all who loved her especially my children and siblings and nieces and nephews

Mom's Legacy (And I Love Her)

Amazing poet Jennifer Barone performs live with the S&Ms @ Doc's Lab in San Francisco, CA on June, 6, 2015. Recorded and mixed by PABLO.

Jennifer Barone At Doc's Lab

"I hope you enjoy your day.  Give me a call whenever you can. This is Mom. I love you. Ok, bye. Give me a CALL!"

Mom Calling

Poet Pablo Rosales and Jazz Pianist Walter Earl perform a poetic musical rendition of "Late Fragment" ~ "Of Wings & Evergreens" at the acclaimed Sacred Grounds Poetry Venue in San Francisco on Wednesday, December 7, 2016.

"Late Fragment" ~ "Of Wings & Evergreens"

"Can't Help Falling in Love" a pop ballad originally recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley's publishing company. It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore and George David Weiss.[2] The melody is based on "Plaisir d'amour"[4] (1784), a popular romance by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816). It was featured in Elvis Presley's 1961 film, Blue Hawaii.

"Can't Help Falling In Love"

Beatles' tune remixed by PABLO.  This song is dedicated to my good friend Anthony Michael Johnson, who I called "Tone".  He was the kindest, coolest and most mellow soul I have ever known.  An amazing photographer, filmmaker, music producer, family man, friend and brother.  A true artist and an inspiration.  I am deeply saddened by his passing.  I grieve and feel as though I've let him down somehow.  My deepest and most sincere sympathy and condolences to his family.

In My Life

ON LOVE
Then said Almitra, "Speak to us on love."
And the prophet raised his head and looked upon the people.
And there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
"When love beckons you, follow him. Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him. Though the sword hidden among his pinions will wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him. Though his voice will shatter your dreams like the north wind lays waste the garden. 
"For even as love crowns you, so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth, so he is for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest of branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. 
"Like sheaves of corn he gathers you onto yourself. He threshes you to make you naked. He sifts you to free you from your husks. He grinds you to whiteness. He needs you until you are pliant. And then he assigns you to his sacred fire so that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. 
"All these things love shall do onto you so that you may know the secrets of your heart. And in that knowledge become a fragment of life's heart. 
"But if in your fear you seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it's better for you to cover over your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing floor into the seasonless world where you will laugh but not all your laughter, and weep but not all your tears. 
"Love gives not but of itself and takes not but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed. For love is sufficient onto love.
"When you love, you should not say: 'God is in my heart', but rather: 'I am in the heart of God!' And think not you can direct the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. 
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. 
"But if you love, and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
"To melt, like a running brook that sings it's melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. 
"To be wounded by your own understanding of love. To bleed willingly and joyfully. 
"To wake at dawn on a winged-heart and give thanks for another day of loving. 
"To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy. 
"To return home at even tide with gratitude, and then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart. 
"And a song of praise upon your lips." 
~Khalil Gibran

ON LOVE

WORD PARTY
Hey! Let's have a party! A Word Party!  Cuz I wanna party wit you.  Make it do what it do.  I wanna dance to your words, to your funky, funky words.  And do word shots with you.  Here's to words of exclamation!  Here's to words of celebration! And here's to words of proclamation!  We can get drunk on words that rhyme with Trump.  Words like Rump.  Stump.  Bump.  And don't forget Dump.  Or we can just chill and sip on sexy romantic words from a Teddy Pendergrass song.  You know, "Turn out the lights... and light a candle."  Or we could be fly.  Superfly!  Like the jazzy slo-gin fizz from a word party punchbowl spiked with mischievous words naughty words.  Provocative words and phrases having dangling participles.  Carelessly dangled and jingle-jangled.  Never-you-mind about dotting eyes and crossing tees.  I don't care about that stuff.  I don care about grammar, 'bout spelling, 'bout capitalization.  Cuz all your words are natural and amazing and beautiful and perfect just like you.  Just the way they are.  I hear you.  I see you.  I feel you.  Yeah, that's the way I like it.  Uh-huh, Uh-huh.  That's the way I liiike it.  Hey now, party over here!

~Pablo Rosales

Word Party ~ The Ballad of Jennifer, Daniel, and Ingrid

Just My Imagination - Rap Interlude

When I was a kid I used to wish upon a star
But now I get down on my knees and say a prayer to Jah
I ask him "Don't let anybody steal her love from me!"
And I pray that one day she will feel God's love in me
Like a match made in heaven she and I were meant to be
If I get discouraged I just play this rhapsody
But wait... 
Who am I kidding?
I must be tripping.
Cuz in reality?
She don't even know me.
~ Pablo Rosales

Just My Imagination - Xandra Corpora featuring Pablo

My beautiful and sweet 3-year-old grand daughter loves to sing.  These are 2 of her favorites.  Recorded on Wednesday, October 17, 2018.

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - Little Miss Holiday Brown

A song about the loving family I grew up in, and later in life, the sweet family of my own.  Also, how soon one day Jehovah will unite all people of the earth as one happy family to live forever in paradise on earth on the basis of faith in his son Jesus Christ (John 3:16). The reality of this is already made evident among the worldwide christian organization of Jehovah's Witnesses.

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