kabisdak: pier sa argao

8.27.2019

pier sa argao

Kaning mga litrato didto kuhaa

sa may karaang pier sa Argao.

Sais anyos ko aning gabatingsyut

gamug-ot kay hait ang mga kabhang

sa kinhasong nalingkoran sa balas.

Hala, nakuhaan diayg hulagway ni Papa

kaming magsuon tungtong sa batong kaluha

dinhi baya mabitik akong ilong sa pingwit

sa akong magulang si anhing Pepe.

Ning laing hulagway naglaray ming mag-agaw

tapad sa lambayong nga among i-skiping rowp

kanang mamisita gani sila gikan sa Sugbo.

Nia say mga bag-o-bag-o kay nagguroy na kog

bebeh nga nahadlok og langoy

iyang bukong dala ikabo sa dagat parat.

Kami sang magtiayon nangitkit ani og barbekyu

sa karaokehang Red Tomato sa kilid sa pier.

Wala makuha sa retrato

ang daghan pa namong kalingawan tungod sa pier:

pag-ambak-ambak inigtaob ug inighunas

panguhag kinhason balat ug tuyom

panggukod sa agukoy sa balas

pangitag alukabhang himoog kwintas

balay-balay ginamit ang gapnod ug lukay

lumbaanayg langoy gikan sa lapyahan.

Karon ang karaang pier sa Argao

dili na palangoyan kay nagkadaiya

ang mga putos, laya, ginisi, upos.

Kinsa may ganahan rong modalikyat didto

labi na sa gabii gitirador man ang bombilya

diha poy adik diri nanglugos og dalagita.

Dili na man sab managdula ang mga bata ron

og tubig-tubig, hulbot-bitok, sung-ay-sung-ay.

Apo namo karon nga taga-syudad

wala ug dili na makaila niini kay nagsige lag

yampungad sa Paw Patrol ug Pokemon

ilang estante may lain-laing klase sa dinosaur.

-- ERLINDA KINTANAR-ALBURO 

Cebu 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

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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."