kabisdak: bayle

3.12.2011

bayle

Nabuntagan na sab ang Buwan.
Klariks na pod ning gipanuhot.
Kagabii man god, pina-backless
ang drama sa kanahan.

Daling miapas
ang nag-roving nga panganod
dihang iyang nasiplatan
ang mikagiw nga Buwan
(nagbitbit kini'g igtatapis
alang sa pakigols nga laagan).

Apan kaidlas naman sa kagwang!
Kalit kining nahanaw
taliwa sa nanagbayleng
mga bituon sa unahan.

Nawa, gadiyong pa
ang mata sa Buwan,
luspad ang aping
ug gabusyad lang
iyang tiyan.

-- RAUL M. FIGUES
Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, Philippines

5 comments:

M said...: mao niy balak nga makapahimuot
ug makatagbaw
pirmeha ni Raul
sige lang pamabdosan
mo ang backless nga bulan
nia bitaw kong mangugos

-nyormel; March 13, 2011 at 12:05 AM
Ka said...: matay bay raul. grabeha'g restraint sa imong 'hulagway oy. nakatiaw ko, nasinati tingali nimo ang maong panghitabo sa imong pagbagdoy-bagdoy diha sa Iloilo. hahaha.; March 14, 2011 at 4:22 AM
Litoux Camus said...: mahimoot ang labawng amahan
sa pagkudlit mo sa kawanangan
ug pagpakatawo sa mga bitoon
timpla sa langit nga tabonon; March 15, 2011 at 4:19 AM
Unknown said...: nyor mel,

una sa tanan, salamat sa pagtugyan mo kanako sa ikaupat mong "anak"---librobalak.

ug salamat sab ay nailhan na ang ninong sa anak sa bulan.

---raul; March 19, 2011 at 11:04 PM
M said...: mokugos ko sa inyong mga "hinagoan"
isip romantikong mga magbabalak
basta ang akong mga kinugos motawag
kanakog Daddy Mel Gibson.

-NyorMel; March 23, 2011 at 12:04 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."