kabisdak: ang balak sa tiguwang mananggiti

2.17.2014

ang balak sa tiguwang mananggiti

Abi nako'g higanteng tabili—

Usa diay ka tiguwang mananggiti nga inanay

Apan yano kaayong mikatkat sa lubi

Sa may unahan ining balkonaheng

Akong gibarogan.

Bisan gatikuko na

Iyang buko-buko, uyon sa porma

Sa gitakin niyang sangot,

Makita nimo ang talagsaon niyang kahanas

Sa pagkatkat. Sinati na kaayo

Sa iyang duha ka mga tiil ang kada hakhak

Sa lubing iyang gikatkatan nga maingon ta'g

Bisan pa gani'g piyongan.

Pag abot sa tumoy, gikuha sa tiguwang

Ang gitaking sangot, gihulbot ang sugong

Sa gisaksakan ini ug dayon giabisan

Aron agian sa bag-ong dagayday

Sa lina.

Gituyok niya ang lima

O unom niya ka sugong, ug dayon mikanaog

Uban sa pagdailos

Sa nagkapughawng' adlaw.

Wa siya kamatngon nako apan

Klarong pareho ming hilom

Nga nakapahiyom sa among kaugalingon—

Siya, bisan nga nagtikukong nagkumpayot

Panaog sa lubi,

Tungod sa kahinam tingali

Sa matigom nga lina

Sa iyang mga sugong—

Ug ako, nga nagbarog dinhi sa balkonahe

Sa may unahan, tungod ining yanong balak

Nga akong nakit-an.

-- JEREMIAH BONDOC

Sanciangco, 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."

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"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."