kabisdak: trafalgar square, westminster, london

9.27.2010

trafalgar square, westminster, london

(alang kang higaladagang Richel B. Dorotan)

Tingalig ikaw ang modernong reinkarnasyon
ni madaogong Lord Admiral Nelson gikan sa Medieval siglo
hangtod karon nganong guyoron man gayod ang imong
latagawang kaikag ngadto sa kuwadradong hawanan? Kayha
tua pang binordahan kinuptanang panyolitong gibukhad
sa kamang laguna unya gihidhid gidapuwas sa galingang sampot
sa manyak kinailadmang kahiladman human ikaw ug ang mitikal
uyab mo nakighilawas sa nangligid nga mga balili. Aber suhira
ang malamatong palibot kansang arkitektura labihan katahom.
Sauloga ang kaanyag kamabulokon kabililhon kamahinungdanon
ning talagsaong lugar diin gihukman ang daghan dakong
mga hitabosa kasaysayan sa kasingkasing
sa London habig sa Nelson Column

Hala yaka na sa tunga sa hawan niini. Pangandoy
ug pagdamgo og mga dumalayong butang nga dili tinuod
kay pantasya ug alimungaw lang sa mga turistang tunob
sa bathalan-ong pangindahay

-- MELQUIADITO M. ALLEGO
Palm Harbor, Florida, USA

1 comment:

M said...: Sa Oktubre 21, 1805, sa panahon sa Napoleonic War/Battle of Trafalgar,
Si Lord Admiral Nelson nangulo sa British Royal Navy nga nipulpog ug nilunod sa alalayng armada sa Pranses ug Espana.

-mananambalak; September 30, 2010 at 5:03 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

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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."