kabisdak: sa kataposan nakong gutlo, buot kong makighilawas. . .

2.15.2010

sa kataposan nakong gutlo, buot kong makighilawas. . .

sa kahilom,

mosulod ko sa iyang langob
pasagdan ko nga kaming duha magbukot

sa kainit, kangitngit ra ang bugtong saksi
niining tanan, ang paggawas-sulod

sa akong gininhawa
mao ray tingog nga akong mabati

ug sa higayon nga mobinhod
ang mga paa sa akong kahimatngon

mamumpong og kahayag
ang unlan, ang habol, ang katri.

-- GLENN T. MUÑEZ
Dumanjug, Cebu, Philippines

6 comments:

M said...: glenn,

king bigalak/balakerotika
namugna kayha didto sa
salagbao.
kadtong hubogabii nagpakatawog
BEBODOFILAMIMUVE Poetry Ensemble

-mananambalak; February 15, 2010 at 8:19 PM
Ka said...: nyor mel,

mas ganahan ko sa pulong nga "bigalak". kombinasyon sa mga pulong nga biga, alak ug balak. kon si sir ritchel pa ang pasultion, "sexuality, dionysian ecstacy, and art".

tuod nyor mel, mao kini ang unang balak nga akong nayagyag human sa BEBODOFILAMIMUVE pOETRY eNSEMBLE didto sa salagbao. hinaot unta mausban ang maong hitabo.

-bigaon nga magbabalak; February 16, 2010 at 6:26 AM
M said...: glenn,

ang imong balak maoy trailblazer
sa umaabot nga mga balak sa Poetry Ensemble.
Nindot, thrilling, imaginative, makagisi sa kondon nga mitagdoy
sa nagbilangkad tong.

-mananambalak; February 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM
kevin lagunda said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; February 16, 2010 at 11:24 PM
m.u.o. said...: Mga igsoong magbabalak,

Hinay-hinay lang kay basin ma-offend ang mga babayeng magbabasa sa atong mga tuktogaok. Sama sa balak, labing maayo kon duna'y pugong atong mga pulong. Cheers!; February 17, 2010 at 12:35 AM
kevin lagunda said...: sorry sir MykeO.; February 17, 2010 at 8:09 PM

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."