kabisdak: kadtong akong gikasugat sa 16th street mall

7.20.2009

kadtong akong gikasugat sa 16th street mall

“ The 16th Street Mall is a pedestrian and transit mall in Denver, Colorado... Traditionally, street performing has been very popular on the mall, with many local folk, country, and vocal musicians... Other types of performers, such as dancers, actors, impressionists, and comedians have also used the popular location as a prime venue for discovery.” – Wikipedia

Maumod ang mananagna kon maghago siya’g sunod
sa mga saag nakong pangutana. Pananglitan: Unsa’y palad
sa pungkol? Unsaon pagtultol sa utlanan sa kangitngit kon
walay makaplagan nga langob-agianan ang buta? Asa kutob
atong hangak gukod sa gasinaw nga buhok sa estranghera
nga gitawag nila’g Lady Luck? Butikaw, butikaw…

Wala ko nagkinahangla’g mga tubag taliwala sa kasadya
didto sa kinapusoran sa Denver. Nabangga akong panan-aw
sa usa ka latagaw. Wala gabaguod bisan gabugdo ang sako
sa iyang buko-buko ug ang uban pang pinutos gayunyon
sa iyang lawas. Bisa’g makililimos ang iyang sinul-oban,
wala mangab-ot ang iyang kamot. Wa’y mulo nga gitug-an
bisan dayag nga hagbay ra niyang natilawan ang abog
sa pagkadugmo. Bisa’g wala nipahiyom, dan-ag gihapon
ang iyang dagway nga giduhigan og bulok sa bulawan.
Ug bisan wa’y bahandi, iyang gibarogan nga dili siya
magdumili, andam mohimamat sa bisan kinsang hari.

-- MICHAEL U. OBENIETA

Topeka, Kansas, USA

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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."