Caroline Nazareno-Gabis: Local Science Instructor is Also Internationally Multi-Awarded Poet
Caroline 'Ceri Naz' Nazareno-Gabis proves that science and the arts need not be incompatible, for she straddles both worlds with ease, seeing no distinct boundaries in between.
Ms. Gabis is a resident of Zone IV, Bayambang, who is not just an educator but also a multi-awarded contemporary poet, editor, journalist, and peace and women’s advocate.
She graduated cum laude with a degree of Bachelor of Elementary Education at Pangasinan State University-Bayambang Campus (batch 2001), and specialized in General Science. At Tarlac Agricultural University, she teaches in the Natural Science Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, and is also designated as Chief in Partnership Development of External Linkages and International Affairs Office.
A voracious researcher in both the fields of science and arts and literature, she has volunteered in organizations with disparate concerns, such as Richmond Multicultural Concerns Society, TELUS World of Science, Vancouver Art Gallery, and Vancouver Aquarium.
She also experiments on deviantArt, mask-painting and shell-painting, and collects exquisite artworks from nature. Her photo-art, dubbed “koireography,” was exhibited in South Korea, with the theme “Visible Poetry Connecting the World." Her “koireography” formed part of the International Artists’ Exhibit in Turkey through USART or International Culture Arts Society, Health and Ecotourism, Turkey on July 21, 2021.
Among her prestigious awards include being the Embahadora de Valores Universales (Ambassador of Values Movement International) and Featured International Poet from the Philippines in the Encuentro Mundial el Valores Movimiento (International Meeting of Values Movement) held in Chaco, Argentina, on October 21, 2021. She also won the Poet-Journalist Award 2014, in Istanbul, Turkey, as well as the International Empowered Poet 2013 recognition given during the World Poetry Canada held in Vancouver, Canada.
She was also a finalist in the iWoman Global Awards 2020 in India, Panorama Global Literary Awards 2020- Youth Literary Awards, also in India, and a featured author in the Summer and Winter 2020 issue of the InnerChild Press USA. Moreover, she earned 7th place in the Italian International Literary Awards for three consecutive years (2017-2019). The latest award she received was the prestigious Gabrielle Galloni Memorial Panorama International Youth Award 2022, given on May 19, 2022.
A World Poetry Canada International Director to The Philippines, Ceri Naz is also a member of World Poets Society-Greece (2016 to present) and Writers International Network Amazing Poet Award 2015-Canada.
Below is one of her winning pieces, which is naturally a meditation on the basic sciences:
Immanence
I am a breakdown
of filaments
from the coast
of continuity,
i am a vestige
of glimmers
from the impulses
of creation
in the multiverse,
I am the void, the space, the time
in the cosmological expansion,
I am the vacuum of infinity.
I am nothing in the massive hole
Of eclipses and murky galaxies,
I, myself, me is an elusive
Dot in universe’s womb,
Reminds me the tinge of ankh,
I become Love, the most impeccable locution
The sacred oomph in the vastness,
I become Light, in synchronicity like diamond eyes.
I wander in the firth
As I transcend from the pulsating waves,
the raging storms, the howling winds
To the ocean of ethos,
Because I live in the waters,
In the rocks, in the roots and in monera’s trap
Look at me herenow, reflection says
I can be yesterday in your future,
Your future’s now and all time’s word
You will find me everywhere,
A neutrino travelling in a planck time
Will come back again, to be with you
In ageless name.
i am the emptiness
from the breathing
earth,
water,
air,
fire,
of life.
(Panorama International Literature Festival 2022)
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