kabisdak: pagpakli sa album

3.06.2011

pagpakli sa album

Atol sa salosalo sa banay ug suod mga higala, si anhing
Ting Ren naglingkod sa lagkaw bitbit ang sista ug kuwentas
sa pag-inusara. Bag-ohay nitalikod, si Mama Bating nanilhig
sa tugkaran ni Tiya Bening. Ang mga nitaliwan ug nahabilin
pulos nagpahiyom sa pughaw nga hulagway circa 1960.
Maghisgot kita kanilang daw manuktok sa ganghaan
sa kasingkasing ug moduaw sa karaang balay sa mga
handumanan bisan kanus-a basin asa. Upod makamatikod
nga adunay bag-ong nahimamat nga puparehog hitsura
ug linihokan sa ningbiya kanato. Manlimbawot atong balhibo:
Ang mga retrato mamangon mag-alirong manglingkod
didto sa talad kan-anan.

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

3 comments:

M said...: the living and the dead
commune with each other within
the silence, stillness, secrecy
and privacy of the family album.
Magreyunyon sa mga pahina
sa pangumosta, pangindahay, kahinugon ug kawili.
Ipahiluna ang imong album
duol sa alampoanan sa paghandom.

-mananambalak; March 9, 2011 at 9:58 PM
Litoux Camus said...: nindot nyor mel. kahinomdom pod kos ako lola aning balaka.

-
m.d.k.
habalakero; March 15, 2011 at 4:24 AM
M said...: salamat sa maluluy-ong
dinagkotang pulong.
napukaw
akong kamingaw
sa akong manghod (Ting Ren).
natawo king balak paghandom.

-nyormel; March 15, 2011 at 11:19 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."