kabisdak: kon nganong dili kataw-anan kadtong false tsunami alarm

9.03.2012

kon nganong dili kataw-anan kadtong false tsunami alarm

“For several minutes yesterday afternoon, the streets in downtown Cebu City looked like a scene from some disaster movie, with thousands of panic-stricken people running to safety.” -- Sun.Star Cebu

nagdagan ang kalisang sa dalan Colon

human nasiak ang sukaran

sa atong pagtuo

nimugna og mga pagkurog sa yuta

huhungihong sa taliabot nga balod

nga nanghulgang mobanwas sa nagkatol

nga dagway ning dakbayan

nagkataw-anay lang ta adto

nangaon og tempura

dihang kalit lang niulbo

ang kaguliyang

nipaingon sa atong nahimutangan

ang panon sa katawhang nahikalimot

nga ang tubig usab kinabuhi

hugot kong gikuptan

ang imong kamot

aron unta bisan may kabalaka sab

sa akong mga mata

mahinundom kang wala ka nag-inusara

apan nilugnot ka ug nikuyog nila

duyog sa mga busina sa mga sakyanan

nga nagkalandrakas ang dagan

mga tiil nga nangaykay og kaluwasan

wala ka nilingi

tingali wala ka nakadungog

sa akong pagsangpit sa imong ngalan

wala ka nakaalinggat sa balik-

balik kong pagsinggit sa imong ngalan

tupad sa nahulog mong tuhog sa tempura

nayatak-yatakan ang daghang pangutana

nagdagan ang kalisang sa dalan Colon

-- IOANNES P. ARONG

Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines

1 comment:

M said...: i was there when it happened
well-written, ioannes
intermingling of suspense
comedy and love story

-mananambalak; September 7, 2012 at 9:12 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

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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."