kabisdak: kan nanay kalendaryo

2.05.2019

kan nanay kalendaryo

An kan nanay kalendaryo iya ginsusuratan.

May walo ka adlaw nga gin tsekan ngan

duha ka pulo nga may ekis. Kundi

mas damo pa hito an amon pakiana.

“Ito nga inekisan, ito an mga adlaw

nga sarawayon, salaan”, baton niya

han amon pakiana. “ Kay ano man?”

“Ah! basta, maraut it bata nga pakialamera”.

Usa ka adlaw, hi Nanay

naaro-tubang han iya kalendaryo, nag iinihap.

Nagsirom an nawong ginrabot

ginkunot, tapos ginpiro-piksi an paypay han bulan,

Katima hadto hi Nanay nagsisinuka,

nanluluya, ngan nagpipinamusa.

An iya tiyan nagdinako, ngada’n

pag-anak kan Lilay, an amon ikalima.

Siring ni Apoy kan Nanay nga nagpapasuso

“Pagbuot ito’t Diyos, karawata. Magkadiano pa man

iton kada bata kanan langit ito ginhatag nga grasya”.

Tikang umabot it amon puto, apinas kami makasura,

Tapos hi Manoy waray na pag-eskwela

Ginpaupod na ni Tatay ha dagat pangisda.

Baga’n ungod an sagbang ni Dada Tikya,

ngalaong , “Intawon hi Sergia nagdugang na liwat

hin turubongan na baba. Bis’ pa man it kanan langit

grasya, kay waray man pakapin nga ipanmaralit”.

Hi Nanay tikang hadto, waray na gud

Mag arug hin kalendaryo.

-- FIRIE JILL T. RAMOS

Tacloban City, Leyte, 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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"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."