kabisdak: pasakalye ibabaw sa kabanha alang sa tanang pasaherong langyaw nga akong gikahinagbo didto sa subway sa new york

10.17.2009

pasakalye ibabaw sa kabanha alang sa tanang pasaherong langyaw nga akong gikahinagbo didto sa subway sa new york

Gitukob, giluwa kita sa bitin. Wala'y mga balili
nga molakra sa malapason natong mga lakang
paduol sa atong panginahanglan. Ayaw paulahi
pagsulod ug paghabwa sa kaugalingong lasang.

-- MICHAEL U. OBENIETA
Topeka, Kansas, USA

4 comments:

rsb said...: makita ang kaanindot
sa pipila ka pulong lamang.

very vivid ang imagery.; October 18, 2009 at 7:57 AM
ester said...: Bitaw Myke, bisan sa Germany o sa France, saba kaayo ang mga pasaherong langyaw nga excited kaayong mag-estoryahay... Pero nganong malapason man Myke? ug nindot kaayo ang bitin nga image...; October 20, 2009 at 6:05 AM
m.u.o. said...: "Malapason" akong gigamit, Ms. Est, kay buot nako ipasabot ang idea about going beyond the limits of one's comfort zone. Is migration or transcending our native identities just another name for transgression? Do we betray ourselves, like the snake in the grass, in our search for greener pastures? "Malapason," in the long run, is going over and above the constrictions of this cliched but complex self-interrogation.; October 21, 2009 at 1:14 AM
rsb said...: korekek...

malapason....lampingasan...
way puangod...bitin,,, halas...

dupong...og uban pa..; October 21, 2009 at 3:11 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

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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."