kabisdak: gilay-on

7.29.2011

gilay-on

(alang kang Nanay Nieves)

Sulod niadtong mga gutlo nga nagkat-on pa mi kon unsaon
pagbuwag sa lukay ug tukog sa lubi wala kay giyawyaw
nganong imo ming gidangdang sa udtong tutok.
Ug aron dili manghapdos among alingagngag
wala nimo pakyasa paghapnig ang binandihadong bahaw,
binaldi nga tubig ug bulinaw—ang ilang kalimutaw
mahaitong nagbantay sa among pabadlong.

Wala gani mi igong katakos pagtugkad sa imong pagtuk-ong
niadtong kinaubsang ang-ang sa imong hagdanan
nga ang gitas-on daw nanghuyatid ngadto sa nagdung-aw
nga bangaw. Matod nimo, imo ra diay ming gipalantaw
kon unsay gilay-on tali sa yuta ug panganod.

Sukad niadtong taknaa, among gisuwayan og sukod kadtong
imong gidugtong nga lukay ug tukog, apan tataw kaayo
nga wala mi padulngan tungod sa among kalinghod
sa paghubad sa imong kahanas, amo hinuong nalimtan
ang gikumkon sa imong paghinuktok.

Karon pa ko kahinumdom human nipahilayo ka namo
sa dili nimo tinuyoan: Ang sukdanan diay tali sa yuta ug
panganod mao ra diay kadtong mga lukay nga imong gilubid
sa mga gipanghapyod nga tukog.

-- DENNIS S. SARMIENTO
Maryland, USA

1 comment:

M said...: si nanay nieves nimo
naghimog sulirap?
silhig tukog?

-mananambalak; July 30, 2011 at 7:56 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."