kabisdak: mga igsoon kong lumad sa mindanaw

7.26.2015

mga igsoon kong lumad sa mindanaw

Giabog kita ngadto sa kabukiran

Aron maangkon nila atong kayutaan.
Karon nga ang kabukiran ilang kaloton
Kita pag-usab ilang abog-abogon.

Asa ang hustisya human kita ilogi sa atong yuta?
Asa ang kalinaw nga kuno ilang tinguha?
Asa ang kaangayan ning kristiyanong katilingban?
Asa ang paglaban alang kanatong gipanglupigan?

Ah, usa ray tataw niining tanang hitabo.
Kinahanglang armasan nato ang atong kasuko.
Tan-awa ang mga ig-agaw nato sa Mahindanaw
Nakigpirmahay na nila ang goberno alang sa kalinaw.

Unsa man, tun-an ta unsaon pagrakrak nang masinggan?
Tun-an tag pus-ag ang mga ulos malupigon?
Ang tahoron lamang ba niining maong estado
Mao ang pakapaka ug panghadla sa tanang moboto?

Unsa man, maghinurotay na lang ta anig kaliwatan?
Makiglido na lang ta hangtod sa unsa may dangatan?
Kay unsa may kalainan kon dili ta mopatay
Nga patyon man gihapon tas mga inatay?

Hala, gawas kamong mga kaliwat sa bagani!
Ihatag ta kanila ang gubat nga ilang gipangita!
Hala, gawas kamong mga kaliwat sa alimaong!
Aron dinhi niining atong isla, ato silang ilubong!

-- ANIJUN MUDAN-UDAN

Malaybalay, Bukidnon, 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."

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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

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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."