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10.01.2008

humana ba ang kuwaresma?

Humana ba ang kainit
sa udtong tutok niining
baybayon diin nangaliki
ang mga patay nga kinhason?

Humana ba ang imong
tinagoang pagtukaw sa dihang
ang atong mga lawas niligid
sa lapok gikan sa atong pus-on

Nawagtang na ba ang kusog
sa imong mga braso sa paggakos
susama sa mga sanga
nga wala na’y mahuptang dahon?

Nahupsan na ba imong dughan
kay dili ka na man moyamyam
og"pwera pungag" sa katahom
ug alimyon sa Flores de Mayo?

Natapos na ba ang tanan
ug wala na’y laing katuyoan
gawas sa imong paglabay lahos
og biya sa akong pagkalawos?

-- LIYO DENORTE
Cebu City, Philippines

9.29.2008

sa ikapito nga adlaw

Sa ikapito nga adlaw
hinumdumi--
dili ko motingog.
Dili ko mosangpit sa imong ngalan.
Antoson ko ang kamingaw.
Antoson ko ang kasubo.

Imong gilubag akong dughan,
gipuga ang kataposang pag-antos
hangtod nahubsan.

Mga liso alang nimo akong gisabwag
Apan imo ra kining giyatakan.

Karon sa akong mga kamot
Gikumkom ang kalagot.
Kalami nimong rakrakan
aron masinati nimo akong gibati.

Sa ikapito nga adlaw,
usbon ko, unya pa sa ikapitong adlaw
ikaw akong damhon.

-- LIYO DENORTE

Cebu City, 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

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.

sa makausa pa

"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."