kabisdak: mata

12.20.2018

mata

sumala kang Genory Vanz Alfasain sa sugilanong “Tilapyang Puti”

Dili na katingalahan alang sa tilapya ang pagkasaksi

og baying gasakay sa baroto

sa danaw sa Holon. Kamatuorang gipanganak siya

nga adunay duha ka matáng

dili mahimong ipiyong ug nga gimugna ang pilok

tungod dili kinahanglang

masaksihan ang tanang kamatuoran. Kinahanglang

mohunong sa paglangoy

aron dili mahilayo ug magkaabot siya ug ang gapaduol

nga baying iyang tutokan.

Nakit-an niya sa mga mata niini ang kaugalingong

hulagway, nag-inusarang

galutaw sa kalimutaw. Usa gayod siya ka katingalahan—

puting mátang sa tilapya.

Nahanaw lamang siya inigsara sa mga mata sa bayi.

Usa pa ka kamatuoran:

aduna gihapoy makit-an sa pagpiyong ug nga sama

ang bayi ug tilapyang wala pa

nakit-an ang ilang hinungdan. Gigawas niya ang ulo

apan mao ra og mabugto

ang ginhawa maong kinahanglang mobalik sa tubig.

Gisulayan dayon niya

ang paghangad sa langit ug pagpiyong sa mga mata.

-- M.J. CAGUMBAY TUMAMAC

General Santos 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."

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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."