kabisdak: sularawan ug uban pang dakbayanong kahidlaw

3.04.2009

sularawan ug uban pang dakbayanong kahidlaw

(kang mananambalak Mel ug Urias sa ilang daklitpanaw destinasyon sugbo)

ilimod ba sa naglabyog-labyog nga kurtina
sa silong ang gibuhat nga buot pasaksihan
sa mga matang mahidlawon sa kaadlawon?
pastilan, kaayo rang klikan sa kamera
iladlad sa aseras sa colon,
ang inyong paghubo, ang inyong pagpanghikap
sa kurbada ug bugan sa babayeng kuragan ginganlan natong
tanan og balak.

nyor, daghan baya gihapong kanahan magbalak-balak
sa leon kilat (kuydawog sa junquera, ha):
tingalig naa pa ang karaang
katawa ni fidel mag-usara
sama adtong pagpunay niyag kulitog
sa gubaong relo; ug si erning
sab adtong panahona wa pa magkinahanglag pustiso
ug kinsay manumbaling sa habuhabo kon nakiglips-to-lips
ang magbabalak sa iyang anino?
samtang ang mga eheres nga tigpatanto—sus, wa lang—
naghayon-hayon lang. mora lag way
nahitabo. wa lang sila masayod kon unsa kapino sa
inyong mga kiyod. unsa katam-is sa inyong laway. unsa gyoy
kapuslanan sa tanduay.

kon magtukod mog simbahan,
hinaot ako ang unang disipulo
morag malangit na tingali ko kay
nahinol ko na man ang dinunggaban sa
kilid sa akong kristo niadtong usa ka adlaw—
usa ka adlaw nga ako miinom sa
gitagay ninyong apdo.

-- OMAR KHALID
Medellin, 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."

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.

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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."