kabisdak: didto sa layong gingharian ug dinhi sa kamingawan

6.29.2017

didto sa layong gingharian ug dinhi sa kamingawan

Sukad nakalingkod ang hari,

ang akong kabuhi wala na gyod maulii--

kay hapit matag gabi-i kong mag-atang;

ug kon unsa man ang akong gihuwat,

bisan gani ako wala masayod.

Sukad nakalingkod ang hari,

magduhaduha na akong bana og pangita’g

panginabuhi kay kuyawan magabhian

labi na kay awaaw kining among dapit,

dali rang dam-okan sa kangitngit

Kuyawan lagi kuno siya—basin unya

kalit lang siyang birahon sa

kaugalingong anino

Sukad nakalingkod ang hari,

ang agianan tungod sa among bintana

mao ra’g baylehan—magkidlap-kidlap

among bintana inig haguros sa sakyanan

nga kanunay wiwiw ra’y tukar.

Sukad nakalingkod ang hari,

kasagaran mingaw na among balay

matag gabii kay hilom na akong bugoy,

basin nangluod kay wa man tagai

sa iyang gipangayo. Kanang

kamay muscovado nga iyang kinaham

isuwa sa tinughong nga kanunay hinatag

sa among silingan tupad sa among payag.

Sukad nakalingkod ang hari,

nanghalang na’g pulaw ang akong kalimutaw

kay upat na ron ka gabii nga wala makauli

akong bana, labi na kay tulo ka adlaw nga

wala mibangon akong bugoy, ug

dili na pod motubag kon sangpiton.

-- ELVIN E. RUIZ

Liloan, Cebu, Philippines

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"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."

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"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

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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.

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"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."