kabisdak: raspa gikan gapakuha

5.28.2009

raspa gikan gapakuha

Na hala, dok,
apila na lang pod pagkuot
ang nahabilin gawas sa tago-

angkan diri sa kinangitngitan

nga bahin sa akong kasubo.

Kuota pa, dok,

ang kinalawman hangtod

mahawanan ang akong
kunsensya mentras wala pa
mohupas ang anestisya.

-- NEILE GENICA MIJARES
Cebu City, Philippines

4 comments:

alig-ig said...: Na hala, day
bikangkangag maayo
ang puti ug hamis nga mga paa
sa imong paghinulsol
kay kuoton ko na
ang imong mga sala
ginamit ang nagkitoy-kitoy
nga way gwantes
nga mga tudlo
sa akong panalangin.

(Ayaw bayag pamaak, ha?); May 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Balitaw said...: saludo ko Genica sa imong
kaisog sa pagtukbil niining
kontrobersyal nga isyu kabahin sa abortion: ang psychological effect sa tagtungod, moral issues ug ang katungod sa atong kababayin-an sa ilang lawas katumbas sa katungod isip lungsoranon nga gi konsiderar nga 2nd class citizen sa kadaghanan sa atong sosyedad... good job!; May 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Unknown said...: Maayo ni nga pares sa imohang Short story theme Gen. Katong sa workshop. Sa Ludo dental services. Hehe.; May 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Neile Genica Mijares said...: for ms. candice: salamat kaayu sa tanan nimong suporta, mam. Usa sad ka sa akong mga idols.

for atan: lage. i wrote this after rewriting Redemption, tan. hehe.

for to myke: salamat kaayu sa pag edit ani akong balak. Nigwafa na jud tawn.; June 1, 2009 at 1:30 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."