kabisdak: ako usa ka ***

3.13.2011

ako usa ka ***

Ako ang kontrobersiyal magtatampong gihisgotan ni T.S. Eliot
nga wailhang lehislatura sa ningdanag kalibotan

Ako ang naghambinayng Pigafetta sa bayente unong siglo
Ako ang dalindamang tigpamaba sa gipatak-om bunganga
sa gibinaklid kagawasan giposasang katungod dignidad

Ako ang eksentrik mananagna sa sandawng umaabot
ug tigpahinumdom sa nabanhaw nagmultong nangagi

Ako ang way-ripleng koresponsal nga nagbatbat unya nasamdan
sa wayhinungdang pagbuno pagbungkag pag-ulbo pagpinopino
sa bukog ug unod sa isigkalinalang

Ako ang dagitabyang eskulturero sa monumentong handurawan
Ako ang sayberkoryograper sa dalilang hip-hop-rap henerasyon

Ako ang unang nakamatikod sa ninghunob ningyuhot kausaban
ug nanganaykanayng kabalhinan
Ako ang bugtong gaduka gatikawtikaw gainusara gasukarap
nagtubok kagabhion tanday sa nagbrondang kangitngit

Ako ang dibuhista pintor sa mga maidlas pulong talinghaga
Ako ang sayong nakaapas sa nagtimbakuwas hunahuna
ug nakatugkad sa alimungawng pagbati

Ako ang mapahiyomon estrangherong may bolpen sa bolsa gatutok
sa engkantadang kaanyag ug gatuhog sa nakras mong kasingkasing

*** dalikyat sa comments

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

5 comments:

M said...: Ako usa ka MAGBABALAK

-mananambalak; March 13, 2011 at 7:26 AM
Litoux Camus said...: ako si siddharta gautama sa dihang wa pa pukawa.
ako si mohammad nagladlad nga ang diyos nag-inosara.; March 15, 2011 at 4:02 AM
M said...: erik,

a poet must have mastery of language.
you are gingerly tiptoeing on it
right now.
keep finding portmanteau words.
nadawat na ba nimo, cheeno & kevin
ang gipadala kong " a memoir by the
black hawk" ni james tate?

-mananambalak; March 15, 2011 at 10:59 PM
Litoux Camus said...: mayng adlaw diha nyor mel!

daghang salamat sa matahom nga mga pulong. wala pa man nako nadawat ang libro, nyor. wa ba kaha to nasangit sa customs. ako lang tingale i-follow up ang customs next week. thank you kaayo ato nyor mel.

erik; March 17, 2011 at 7:07 PM
M said...: erik,

kay wa man koy adres nimo, akong gipadala ang librobalak ngadto ni
kevin.

nyorMel; March 18, 2011 at 9:55 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

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."