kabisdak: kanang yano lang

8.30.2010

kanang yano lang

gusto nako
ang yano

kanang pulong nga
masabtan dayon

bisan og dili ka na
maghunahuna

kay og dugayon
nimog hunahuna

basin sakit
basin hapdos

gusto nako
yano lang

gamayng kusi
nipis nga kulinit

danlog nga halok
sa aping kon uga

hinay nga sitsit
sa usa ka pagpaabot

gusto nako
yano lang ang gugma

sumsom lang
dili ko anang pista

gusto nako yano lang
kutirkutir lang god

ginagmay nga hisgot
dili nang libak

gusto nako yano lang
nga simhot sa buhok

kadyot nga tutok
ginagmayng saad

gusto nako ang yano
nga ugma

kanang dunay balikan
kanang naay magpaabot

gusto nako naa ka
apan dili dugay

dili ko gusto anang
tapot kaayo sa bungbong

makuspaw
mahimong sumo

daghan kog gusto nga yano
apan dili mahimo

gusto nako kadyot ra ta
dayon babay na dayon

gusto nako kanang yano lang
walay bungbong walay utlanan

kanang naa ta diri
apan dili ta magpabilin

kanang dili na nato damhon
apan angayang handomon

-- RIC. S. BASTASA
Katipunan, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines

1 comment:

WAY ALIMPULO said...: BRAVO! MABUHI ANG TAGA-MINDANAO!; August 30, 2010 at 12:29 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."