kabisdak: kon naa pa lang ko'y pako

11.16.2012

kon naa pa lang ko'y pako

Nilupad na ko
Sa kawanangan
Aron molantaw
Sa kabukiran
Ug kapupod-an.
Motugpa ko sa Australia,
Makighimamat sa mga lumad
Ug moambak kuyog
Sa kangaroo nga matod pa
Ni Budoy, sigbin kuno
Unya modalikyat sab ko
Sa Indonesia, didto sa isla
Sa mga bathala aron sutaon
Kon tinuod ba
Nga dunay paraiso dinhi
Sa atong tugkaran, unya
Molangyaw na 'sab ko
Padulong sa Europa,
Ug mangusyoso
Kon ang karaan
Nga kamatuoran
Aduna pa ba'y pulos
Kanato karon. Ug di sab ko
Malimot pagtugdon
Sa Amerika, didto
sa New York diin mosalida ko,
Motugpa sa korona
Sa Statue of Liberty
Nga gikan sa Francia.
Mohapit sab ko
Sa Africa diin makig-istorya ko
Kang Mandela
Ug sa mga gorilya sa
kalasangan sa Kenya
Kon naa pa lang ko'y pako
Sa tinuod lang
Nilupad na ko, sayo
Ganihang buntag padulong
Sa imong nataran aron
Dalhan ko ikaw og init
Nga kape nga nagbanaw
Ning nagdilaab kong dughan.

-- MA. VICTORIA BELTRAN
Cebu City, Philippines

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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.

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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."