kabisdak: tuktogaok ni ugis

9.13.2014

tuktogaok ni ugis

sa unang labok mibuhagay

dayon ang batikulon atay

tinai sa hiniktan kong ugis

dugo mituasik mibanaw

sa mangtas nga ruyda

wa na wa na pilde na

gipikat ko ang akong pitaka

aron bayran ang gatingsi

nga masyador

wa magsilbi ang tres e

medya paningit

sa pandolan nga himbis

ug ang tangil mong

linunhan sa kataw

ug tago-angkan sa sigbin

hasta ang imong sinyal

nga kuko sa igot-igot

gitagodtagod sa gaaso-aso

bunal sa giyawaan

nimong kontra

piso kang gitugyan

gikan sa langit ug

nakabuhi sa kuko

sa madagiton nga agila

mitubo ka sa hapyod

sa yamog ug gabon

samtang ang tuktugaok

nanganaykanay sa bungtod

sa mahayahay

midungoy nanlimbasog

gatinga hapit na biyai

sa sapsing nga kinabuhi

kabangis ug kayagpis ba

sa imong kalibotan

unsa bay mahimo anang

kaisog mong tig-a pa

sa usa ka taming

apan unsa bay nakaon

sa imong kaatbang

nga giunay man ka niya

og dunggab dungan sa sudlot

iyang kaugalingong kalimutaw

mao rag gilungkab pod

akong dughan sa hugyaw

sa katawhan uno dos ug

mitusik kag kaduha

dayog kabugto sa gininhawa

niadtong domingoha mikunsad

ug nanari pod tanan

nga giampoan kong mga santos

miabay sa ugis nga manok

ni san pedro

-- RODELIO BARELLANO

Caloocan City, Philippines

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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."

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

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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."