Patricia of the Green Hills and Other Stories and Poems - Realms of Myths and Reality

"Patricia of the Green Hills" is a collection of Filipiniana poems and short stories with reflections of life and folkways while growing up in the Philippines. Dr. Ramos never relaxed his own personal pursuit of the Muse and continued to write short stories, poems, and essays. At the same time, he devoted special attention to serious research on Philippine mythology and folklore. All these were done as he taught and performed administrative duties at the Philippine Normal College and later at the University of the East. We know that his legacy will fire the imagination of Filipino students and inspire them to know more about their own heritage, history, folkways and folklore and to write them down for others to enjoy and appreciate.

I. Poems
FAUNA
November
Highway Sign
The Cobra
Ambush
The Spring
Prize
The Gecko
The Calf
The Crocodile
A Bleeding-Heart Bird

VILLAGE AND CITY
Barrio Scene
Burial Jar Text
Procession
Past Midnight in the Barrio
Manila Street Scene
When I See a Barongbarong Neighborhood
View from the Highway
Stone
Calvary

WAR
The Beach Two Years After
Mount Samat
Brown Men
Seashore
La Jeunesse de L'Annee
The Fathers
Carol-Not for Christmas
Recalling Tale of How an Antique Isle
Letter from Mindanao

YOUTH
To Virgins Taking an Examination
The Way My Truelove Bathes
Love Song to Patricia
The Quarrel
Youth

FLORA
Bamboo Birth
A Tree in Bloom
A Nameless Plant
The Fence
The Tree They Felled
Dawn in a Kaingin

JUNGLE
Motortruck in the Jungle
The Python
Dawn on the Maguindanao River
Liguasan Marsh
Voice of the Wilderness
Hunter

LEGENDS
Offering
The Old Man of the Termite Mound
The Banana Stone
A Girl Does Not Sweep Her Yard
A Bus Passenger
There Are Merfolk
The Elf Tree
A Vanishing Hitchiker
The Mangmangldt
Gardening

SEA AND SKY
Atoll
The Bather
Pearl-Diver
Island
Vintas
Ocean
Wings Under the Moon

II. Short Stories
Summertime in Lomilog
Entry November 9
Planting Time and the Crows
The Witch's Wood
Air Duel
The Storm
Death of the Old House
Big House, Big House
Plane Crash in the Ricefield
A Nipa House in Suburbia
The Man and the Jungle
The House at the Bend of the Road
Who Sink to Rest
Jungle
Patricia of the Green Hills
The Belle of the Wedding Party
In the Gully
Death in a Jungle
The Bells of Santiago
Flame Trees in the Jungle
Visit in the Night
Uncle Sabas and the Jeepney
A Homecoming
Christmas Far Away
Chin Bo-Hing
Ambush
The Python
Shadows
Weekend in Ballay
Dark Valley
Green River, Brown River