kabisdak: an padag nga bilanya-pangampanya hin ‘nag-uurusa’ nga mga mananap

10.27.2022

an padag nga bilanya-pangampanya hin ‘nag-uurusa’ nga mga mananap

“He portrayed himself as the avenging prince…”

-- Sheila Coronel, The New Yorker, May 17, 2022

Tanan nga istorya han mga anak han bao puro hangin

Awit nam’ kamatuoran sugad han hitso nga sukol hini nga laygay,

Dayawa an anak han ungod nga nagparabong han saging!

Upat ka dekada nga panguwat han darag nga mga sigbin

Gintawag pa nga ‘diktador’ an tuod nga nagdara hin upay

Tanan nga ‘storya han mga anak han bao puro hangin

Maaram na kami han kamatuoran kay an dapit kun diin

Gintanom an rumabong nga saging am’ ginkuno-kuno tiupay

Dayawa an anak han ungod nga nagparabong han saging!

Inosente kuno nga kamanampan ngan mga bao – pinanstraping

Ginpriso kuno an kagawasan ngan ginkawat daw an kalipay

Tanan ini nga istorya han darag nga mga bao puro hangin

Kawatan daw an amo; an bao – may saging ba nga ginbilin?

Gin-guom an saging nga namulawan ngan an amo gintinamay

Sanglit, yana nga aadi na an anak, kita tanan magkakasaging!

Buligi ta nga magin pangulo nga anak han amo basi bumalik magin

Kasagingan an aton nasod. An dugo nga waray kabaydi, igbaliwaray

Kay tanan nga istorya han mga anak han bao puro hangin,

Darayawon an amo kay uunahon kami pagtagi hin saging!

-- KENNETH ALVIN CINCO

Salcedo, Eastern Samar, Philippines

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hagit sa handurawan

"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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"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."