kabisdak: pagkawala

3.13.2011

pagkawala

Gitupihan niya ang iyang bulbol.
Gisulod niya ang nangaputol
sa usa ka garapon, ug kini
gibutang sa altar.

Daw hubo nga pulong
sa iyang tutonlan, ang iyang ngalan
giyamyam niya sa dila
nga dili mailhan.

Karon, kon imo siyang tutokan
mobaw’s kini sama sa baki
nga nanglimbasog batok
sa iyang panumdoman
kon asa niya nawani—
sulod sa distrito sa pinulongan
o kaha sa nagkalain-laing pasilyo
sa usa ka lungsod—ang pinitik
sa iyang kasingkasing.

-- GLENN T. MUÑEZ
Dumanjug, Cebu, Philippines

4 comments:

M said...: ang mga nomadik pinitik
sa kasingkasing mo Glenn
tua sa dumanjug gigaid
ginamit ang gigunting

frank bold enjoyable poem
mykeO-nesque without within

-mananambalak; March 13, 2011 at 8:27 AM
Ka said...: nyor mel,

daghang salamat!

padayon sa pagpangita og mga pulong.

daghang salamat usab sa imong librobalak.

glenn,; March 14, 2011 at 4:24 AM
Litoux Camus said...: amigo,
angayan na natong pagasaw-an
ang rolyo sa aliyupyop nga gikan pas kasadpan(balamban)
aron di lang pinitik sa kasingkasing
ang atong madunggan
lakip na ang hagawhaw sa laoy nga utok giabrihan

kanimo,
m.d.k.; March 15, 2011 at 4:10 AM
M said...: way sapayan.
kumosta kaninyong tanan sa atong
bebodofilamimuve poetry ensemble
o nomad?

baira ang inyong mga dagang!

-nyormel; March 15, 2011 at 11:06 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

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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."