kabisdak: kakha-tuka

1.27.2010

kakha-tuka

Nanghamoy sa mga tudlo tungod sa kapit-os
Mga timawang gipangnudnod sa katilingban
Luha sa lakad nga pag-ilaid man naitos
Way gugma ni kaluoy ang ila mang natingban

Ning bantawan sa kinabuhi unsay ilang luna?
May dangawng tipik ba sa dughan pagpakabuhi?
Kayha takos pa mang ibugti dugo sa luha
Aron kagutom ug kauhaw di managsuhi

Ning panagsingki sa panlimbasog may nag-udhak
Kay lagi hubo man sa nagkurbatang utokan
Burong mga kabos sa pagpinig nagatuhak
Kini angay panaminan angay hinuktokan

Dan aduna pa bay kahigayonan pag-uswag?
Duna ugaling angkon sa makinaadmanon
Unsa pa man intawon ang sugkayon sa luwag?
King pagkaon usa ka tawhanong tulumanon

Sa barong-barong may nagkutoy nga mga tiyan
Kinahanglang mag-antos kay palad nga naangkon
Mangimbisog atubangon mga kakulian
Kay sa pagpatulo sa mga singot gisamkon

Diay ning kalibotan adunay kahayahay
Diay ning kinabuhi ta may kaalimuot
May nanghuy-ab mga linalang tugob pagmahay
May mga adunahan nagtagayg kahimuot

Nanghamoy sa mga tudlo tungod sa kawad-on
Mga timawang gipangnudnod labing alaot
Nganhi kaninyo kining panudya akong dad-on
Pasagdang mangakha sila katilingbang maot?

-- MELQUIADITO M. ALLEGO
Palm Harbor, Florida, USA

1 comment:

M said...: ang mga timawa
maoy gipahinungdan
ning mga tudling
sa garay; July 23, 2010 at 7:48 AM

hagit sa handurawan

"Reimmersion (in native culture) is not an end in itself; it is to define more clearly the native grounds on which the Cebuano poet stands, the local parameters of language and experience, toward the end that he can stand in the world confident in the singular value of his own voice...

To conserve and extend the resources to which the Cebuano poet is heir by enhancing the natural rhythms of native speech, cultivating the rich concreteness of dialect, and confronting the particulars of his social experience...

The Cebuano poet today does not come upon a language that is already there, ready to use; he has to recreate it not only out of the rawness of daily speech but summon out of language that which has already fallen away from common consciousness and use."

-- Dr. Resil Mojares,
"Cebuano Poetry: Looking Backward, Forward."

matod nila, mando nato

"What could I say at all without my roots?... What could I say without coming to ground?... and I took no journey other than the return."
-- Pablo Neruda

"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-- T.S. Eliot

"The work of language deserves our greatest care, for the tongue’s fire may devour the world, or may light the way."
-- Scott Russell Sanders

"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god… The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
-- Derek Walcott

"We ascend, from the infinite pit of our perceptions, to the finite life of words."
-- William Bronk

salo-salmot

Ari mo! Ambi, atong tilawan ang imong tampo. Palihog ipadala lang ang tinagik nga balak ug sugilanon ngadto sa geemyko@gmail.com.

Kinahanglang bag-o pang haon ang mugna nga imong buot idalit. Ang tigpasiugda ug tigdumala (moderator) niining balayan gapanilap sa katungod nga mopili ug modumili sa tampo. Tugotan pod unta siya og higayon nga mosugyot pagdugang og asin kon matab-angan usahay, pasabwan kun paughan gamay imong hinukad. Mao'y tumong ining balayan ang mamugnaong paghalingay ug pagsaw-anay sa atong gidalit. Kon gibalibaran, palihog ayaw og tyabaw. Ayaw tawon pamaak. Lagmit wala lang mobukal ang lana sa tigdumala kabahin sa timailhan sa tinuod nga wakwak.

sa makausa pa

"Reimmersion (in native culture) is not an end in itself; it is to define more clearly the native grounds on which the Cebuano poet stands, the local parameters of language and experience, toward the end that he can stand in the world confident in the singular value of his own voice...

To conserve and extend the resources to which the Cebuano poet is heir by enhancing the natural rhythms of native speech, cultivating the rich concreteness of dialect, and confronting the particulars of his social experience...

The Cebuano poet today does not come upon a language that is already there, ready to use; he has to recreate it not only out of the rawness of daily speech but summon out of language that which has already fallen away from common consciousness and use."
-- Dr. Resil Mojares,
"Cebuano Poetry: Looking Backward, Forward."