kabisdak: hubad sa balak ni Cynthia Alexander

6.13.2011

hubad sa balak ni Cynthia Alexander

Alindanaw

Nagkurog mo'ng mabalation'g tubig-pako
Gasilaw-silaw sa ibabaw sa tanang butang
Alindanaw

Naghuning dalan sa anod-hangin
Galikay sa mga pangpang sa daplin'g tubig
Natagak nga grasya sa imo'ng binuhatan
Alindanaw

Alang niini, alang ni-ining tanan
Alang niini, alang gayod niini
Higayon sa tumang pagbati
Alang niining pagkurog-hinam

Dalikyat ug labay diri
Lupad manipisnon'g panihagsihag
Nabuta sa imo'ng paghidlawas
Alindanaw

Alang niini, alang niini'ng tanan
Alang niini, alang gayod niini
Higayon sa tuman'g pagbati
Alang niini'ng paghinam-kurog

(gikan sa album "Ikog sa Bulalakaw")

-- MARJORIE EVASCO
Manila, Philippines

2 comments:

rsb said...: Tender trembling waterwings
Shining over surfacethings
Dragonfly

Chanting course on tumblewind
Skirting by watercliffs
Falling graceful in your calling
Dragonfly

All for this, all for these
All for this, all for this
Very tender moment
All for this very trembling

Swiftly come flinging past
Fly on flimsy transparencies
Blinded by your ecstasies
Dragonfly

All for this, all for these
All for this, all for this
Very tender moment
All for this very trembling

All for this, all for these
All for this, all for this
Very tender moment
All for this very trembling; June 14, 2011 at 6:21 PM
rsb said...: Sometimes fat with flower clouds
Often bleak and worry weary skies

Sometimes light with butterflies
Often wild and flickerflaming skies

Such is life on this mortal merry go round
Such is life on this mortal merry go round

Sometimes whirl o wing and windy
Golden tales and planetary skies

Often thick with mystery
Bittersweet and temporary skies

Such is life on this mortal merry go round
Such is life on this mortal merry go round
MORTAL MERRY GO ROUND
[Ad lib]

Such is life on this mortal merry go round
Such is life on this mortal merry go round

Such is life on this mortal merry go round
Such is life on this mortal merry go round; June 14, 2011 at 6:23 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."