Yet another Pangasinan poem. tila labat itan kuan mo nen inyesaes koy panangarok ed sika nayarin tua, inaro nayarin tua balet masamsamit ya tila - tilan singano sonata ed pakarngel mo antak ta ag niamot na matam tan imis mo so liket et no tila bilang perdona personam yan manangaro sirin lapud arayan salitan atipon ed paguew ko et pinarakep na kanunutan ko
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Yet another Pangasinan poem.
tila labat itan kuan mo
nen inyesaes koy
panangarok ed sika
nayarin tua, inaro
nayarin tua
balet masamsamit ya tila -
tilan singano sonata
ed pakarngel mo
antak
ta ag niamot na matam
tan imis mo so liket
et no tila bilang
perdona
personam yan manangaro sirin
lapud arayan salitan
atipon ed paguew ko
et pinarakep
na kanunutan ko
Between Appari and Jolo A child is following the dike with his noble beast and a load of ricestalks to bury in the mudcake A child is harvesting the bounty of the site in Payatas as dump trucks piles up more into the Himalaya of garbage A child is gathering corals and shells in the middle of the day in his eyes are the shadows and the secrets of the sea A child is cuddling his fallen comrade tears and blood littering the sacred ground another gunshot is fired, softly the red-blude sun sets in the horizon
Between Appari and Jolo
A child is following the dike
with his noble beast
and a load of ricestalks
to bury in the mudcake
A child is harvesting the bounty
of the site in Payatas
as dump trucks piles up more
into the Himalaya of garbage
A child is gathering corals and shells
in the middle of the day
in his eyes are the shadows
and the secrets of the sea
A child is cuddling his fallen comrade
tears and blood littering the sacred ground
another gunshot is fired, softly
the red-blude sun sets in the horizon
Aporism (after Jose Garcia Villa) Have,you,poets,to,legislate, and,People,Power,to,change,presidents? A peek at this month's issue of MUSA : The Philippine Literature Magazine Sign-up and get a chance to win a free six months subscription. 4th Philippine Web Awards opens its People's Choice voting. The People's Choice awards go to the semifinalists that garner the most votes in each of the 19 categories. Voting begins on October 24, 2001 and ends at 6:00 pm on November 16, 2001. To cast your votes, visit the official Web site at www.philippinewebawards.com .
Aporism (after Jose Garcia Villa)
Have,you,poets,to,legislate,
and,People,Power,to,change,presidents?
A peek at this month's issue of MUSA : The Philippine Literature Magazine
Sign-up and get a chance to win a free six months subscription.
4th Philippine Web Awards opens its People's Choice voting. The People's Choice awards go to the semifinalists that garner the most votes in each of the 19 categories. Voting begins on October 24, 2001 and ends at 6:00 pm on November 16, 2001. To cast your votes, visit the official Web site at www.philippinewebawards.com .
Belated Happy 2nd Birthday Philweavers ! Founded on Oct 15, 1999 with the current membership of 230 and still growing . . . Bocboc West, Aguilar Pangasinan dia met ed sayan lugar atubuan na kalakal ag lan maong nanunutan iramay linmabas lan aguew balet wala ni ed beneg na kanunutan iray ermen tan liket na inpan-ogaw amay nan-ayaman ya abung anggan anto so inkamelag et sabien tan taynan na bagyo tan tiaguew amay iskwelaan ya angilukas na bintana na kanunutan ko tan amay mabilay ya ilog diad peles na agos na danum tan pantebag na tambib to et angiter na unaan ya takot ed paguew ko amay dalan ya agni asemento no iner saray totoo o ayep et singano ra anyanin unlalabas diad kapal na linaew no kabwasan tan amy combo o banda nen laki Domingo'n bulding maong a manpasikat no pista na baley o di no walay itulor ya inatey nayarin dia ed sayan pasen ko unaan abalikas iray tula ya agko nisulat dia met unaan alikna so paltik o sasnit ed puso nen anengneng so linggas tan gangana na kaogawan kon m
Belated Happy 2nd Birthday Philweavers ! Founded on Oct 15, 1999 with the current membership of 230 and still growing . . .
Bocboc West, Aguilar
Pangasinan
dia met ed sayan lugar
atubuan na kalakal
ag lan maong nanunutan
iramay linmabas lan aguew
balet wala ni ed beneg na
kanunutan iray ermen
tan liket na inpan-ogaw
amay nan-ayaman ya abung
anggan anto so inkamelag
et sabien tan taynan na
bagyo tan tiaguew
amay iskwelaan ya angilukas na
bintana na kanunutan ko
tan amay mabilay ya ilog
diad peles na agos na danum
tan pantebag na tambib to
et angiter na unaan ya takot
ed paguew ko
amay dalan ya agni asemento
no iner saray totoo o ayep
et singano ra anyanin unlalabas
diad kapal na linaew no kabwasan
tan amy combo o banda
nen laki Domingo'n bulding
maong a manpasikat no pista
na baley o di no walay itulor
ya inatey
nayarin dia ed sayan pasen ko
unaan abalikas iray tula
ya agko nisulat
dia met unaan alikna
so paltik o sasnit ed puso
nen an
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Greetings Folks! Check out my Wish List at Amazon.com? :-)
In The News: Romance Queen Cartland's Books Hit the Web
LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of fans of romance queen Barbara Cartland, whose dashing heroes and chaste heroines took the world by storm for most of last century, will soon be able to download audio copies of her books from the Internet.
Poetically incorrect
Paul Durcan is vexed. He is one of Ireland's best-known writers, a poet who has pulled off the rare feat of being popular.
Nexus: Filipino American Literature - A resource for Filipino American literary history, current book reviews, commentary, interviews & author bios.
A couple of fragments in Pangasinan dialect. 1.) no maminsan say ag ilaluan unsabi singa matakew no pigley-labi singa no amay rosas ay ed abay na bintana abangonan kon binmuneknek la ed sayan kabuasan 2.) aliling moy sakey a rosas ed ag nagaoat ya sanga no basibasen kay linggis napelag kan siyan-siya In the News: Carey wins the Booker Australian writer Peter Carey has won the Booker Prize for 2001 for his novel True History of the Kelly Gang. It is the second time the 58-year-old Australian has scooped the prestigious award, having won in 1988 with Oscar and Lucinda. Nexus: The Booker Prize definitive website.
A couple of fragments in Pangasinan dialect.
1.)
no maminsan say ag ilaluan unsabi
singa matakew no pigley-labi
singa no amay rosas ay
ed abay na bintana
abangonan kon binmuneknek la
ed sayan kabuasan
2.)
aliling moy sakey a rosas
ed ag nagaoat ya sanga
no basibasen kay linggis
napelag kan siyan-siya
In the News: Carey wins the Booker
Australian writer Peter Carey has won the Booker Prize for 2001 for his novel True History of the Kelly Gang. It is the second time the 58-year-old Australian has scooped the prestigious award, having won in 1988 with Oscar and Lucinda.
Nexus: The Booker Prize definitive website.
I've added the splash pages or covers used in the previous versions of my site in the index page. I hope to come out with a new cover page soon. Also updated Dateline Berwyn featuring the The Last Autumn by Fred Natividad. ala sais nasasakuban lay bilonget so dalan ya pasempet naksawan lay salin ngalngali ag la nai-kurang ed betel na danguem ambel-belat la iray lokab-lokab na mata ta-tandagan so silew ed bintana na abong balet arawdawi ni pirawat lay makasabi pian makapan-painawa ed manaalagar lan dukulan no makaugip ak komon nabangon ak lan wala ed akwalan mo, katawan In the News: Poet Anne Ridler dies UK poet Anne Ridler, once a protegée of TS Eliot, has died at the age of 89. Ms Ridler has published 10 collections of poems. Anthem For Doomed Poetry (Yeah, Hang up your pens. And never write another poem again.)
I've added the splash pages or covers used in the previous versions of my site in the index page. I hope to come out with a new cover page soon. Also updated Dateline Berwyn featuring the The Last Autumn by Fred Natividad.
ala sais
nasasakuban lay bilonget
so dalan ya pasempet
naksawan lay salin
ngalngali ag la nai-kurang
ed betel na danguem
ambel-belat la
iray lokab-lokab na mata
ta-tandagan so silew
ed bintana na abong
balet arawdawi ni
pirawat lay makasabi
pian makapan-painawa
ed manaalagar lan dukulan
no makaugip ak
komon nabangon ak lan
wala ed akwalan mo, katawan
In the News: Poet Anne Ridler dies
UK poet Anne Ridler, once a protegée of TS Eliot, has died at the age of 89. Ms Ridler has published 10 collections of poems.
Anthem For Doomed Poetry (Yeah, Hang up your pens. And never write another poem again.)
Pathogenesis of Pangasinan Literature 1 A few years back, I thought of writing a collection of verse in Pangasinan dialect but it only materialized when I posted or published my first attempts online a couple of months ago or so. I am compelled to right in Pangasinan because I refuse to accept that it is a dying dialect. I believe it did not flourish for one reason: our ancestors have not preserved theirs souls in print. If there are any existing literary works nowadays written in the said dialect, then they are treasures to be found. Pangasinan literature unlike the Iloco literature is transmitted orally and most, if not all, Pangasinan poets and writers penned their works in Filipino (Tagalog) and/or English language. I do not recall reading a Pangasinan poem or story while still in school except the version of the Bible and the so-called Lunario . I've not even seen a print version of Malinac Lay Labi - a popular Pangasinan kundiman or serenade. I heard the song from my gran
Pathogenesis of Pangasinan Literature 1
A few years back, I thought of writing a collection of verse in Pangasinan dialect but it only materialized when I posted or published my first attempts online a couple of months ago or so.
I am compelled to right in Pangasinan because I refuse to accept that it is a dying dialect. I believe it did not flourish for one reason: our ancestors have not preserved theirs souls in print.
If there are any existing literary works nowadays written in the said dialect, then they are treasures to be found. Pangasinan literature unlike the Iloco literature is transmitted orally and most, if not all, Pangasinan poets and writers penned their works in Filipino (Tagalog) and/or English language.
I do not recall reading a Pangasinan poem or story while still in school except the version of the Bible and the so-called Lunario . I've not even seen a print version of Malinac Lay Labi - a popular Pangasinan kundiman or serenade.
I heard the s
Another poem in Pangasinan dialect. Again, all apologies, no English translation available yet. say panangarok say panangarok ed sika singa panangarok ed amalsan katawan nayarin angga ed wala so linawa balet agko ibabagan andi-anggaan agko met ibabagan lapud sika pigar-pigaren ko lay lurem tan surob-suroben koy tawen lastog labat itan lastog labat na manangaro nen saman aliwan tua ya say panangarok et singa sakey a singsing ya anggapoy gapo tan sampot aliwa met ya lisinsian papel amayamay so mansi-siyan anggano kasal ed pitoran simbaan say panangarok nayarin natalusan mo no siak so andi la ed bilay tan ayan tula et babasaen mo say panangarok et panangaro na sakey a makata tua ya sa makata agaylay samit no mantila angga man ontan sian-sia ni inaro ta ka inaro ta ka (naatotan na karul so mantitila) In the News: Naipaul wins Nobel literature prize Trinidad-born UK author VS Naipaul has won the Nobel Prize for literature for works that "compel us to see the presence of suppressed hist
Another poem in Pangasinan dialect. Again, all apologies, no English translation available yet.
say panangarok
say panangarok ed sika singa
panangarok ed amalsan katawan
nayarin angga ed wala so linawa
balet agko ibabagan andi-anggaan
agko met ibabagan lapud sika
pigar-pigaren ko lay lurem
tan surob-suroben koy tawen
lastog labat itan lastog labat
na manangaro nen saman
aliwan tua ya say panangarok
et singa sakey a singsing
ya anggapoy gapo tan sampot
aliwa met ya lisinsian papel
amayamay so mansi-siyan
anggano kasal ed pitoran simbaan
say panangarok nayarin natalusan mo
no siak so andi la ed bilay
tan ayan tula et babasaen mo
say panangarok et panangaro
na sakey a makata
tua ya sa makata agaylay
samit no mantila
angga man ontan sian-sia ni
inaro ta ka inaro ta ka
(naatotan na karul so mantitila)
In the News: Naipaul wins Nobel literature prize
Trinidad-born UK author VS Naipaul has won the Nobel Prize for literature for works that "compe
(quatrains) (i) (shall) (not) (be) (a) (dust) (of) (saint) (i) (shall) (not) (need) (Zion's) (glory) (on) (papyrus) (my) (self) (to) (paint) (i) (shall) (be) (one) (godly) (poetry) (strange) (voyage) (into) (the) (unknown) (circles) (of) (imagination) (ensures) (a) (man) (a) (crown) (a) (throne) (and) (a) (kingdom) (of) (illusion) (i'll) (lay) (on) (the) (midst) (of) (poetry) (on) (the) (hebeus) (hill) (by) (the) (lea) (there) (i'll) (search) (the) (sky's) (summetry) (there) (i'll) (cross) (the) (celestial) (sea) (oft) (have) (i) (seen) (cerulean) (skies) (and) (felt) (that) (life) (is) (not) (a) (chance) (like) (the) (blude) (sun) (before) (mine) (eyes) (part) (of) (the) (cosmos') (endless) (dance) (we) (all) (live) (our) (lives) (like) (the) (trees) (behind) (our) (back) (before) (our) (feet) (petals) (of) (bitter) (sweet) (mem'ries) (and) (leaves) (of) (triumph) (and) (defeat)
(quatrains)
(i) (shall) (not) (be) (a) (dust) (of) (saint)
(i) (shall) (not) (need) (Zion's) (glory)
(on) (papyrus) (my) (self) (to) (paint)
(i) (shall) (be) (one) (godly) (poetry)
(strange) (voyage) (into) (the) (unknown)
(circles) (of) (imagination)
(ensures) (a) (man) (a) (crown) (a) (throne)
(and) (a) (kingdom) (of) (illusion)
(i'll) (lay) (on) (the) (midst) (of) (poetry)
(on) (the) (hebeus) (hill) (by) (the) (lea)
(there) (i'll) (search) (the) (sky's) (summetry)
(there) (i'll) (cross) (the) (celestial) (sea)
(oft) (have) (i) (seen) (cerulean) (skies)
(and) (felt) (that) (life) (is) (not) (a) (chance)
(like) (the) (blude) (sun) (before) (mine) (eyes)
(part) (of) (the) (cosmos') (endless) (dance)
(we) (all) (live) (our) (lives) (like) (the) (trees)
(behind) (our) (back) (before) (our) (feet)
(petals) (of) (bitter) (sweet) (mem'ries)
(and) (leaves) (of) (triumph) (and) (defeat)
Just found this one from my old notebooks. Kinda old yet always new. first love then t'was an emerald fields you and i used to roam at play we dreamt and chased the great old winds alas! you were loft in the end days went by the place where our milky lips met made a pledge and sacred promises now lone and desolate haunted by out laughters and memories many a turn of seasons fled many a drop of rains fell unto the tuft of the flowers unto the lap of the bowers the adieu the rendezvous the ricefields the first kiss and you a bittersweet memory!
Just found this one from my old notebooks. Kinda old yet always new.
first love
then
t'was an emerald fields
you and i used to roam at play
we dreamt
and chased the great old winds
alas! you were loft in the end
days went by
the place
where our milky lips met
made a pledge and sacred promises
now lone and desolate
haunted by out laughters
and memories
many a turn of seasons fled
many a drop of rains fell
unto the tuft of the flowers
unto the lap of the bowers
the adieu
the rendezvous
the ricefields
the first kiss and you
a bittersweet memory!
My archived posts were not actually deleted, I just changed the archive frequency to weekly and back to monthly frequency, the missing month is back in the list. On the other hand, Makata issues from January to May 2001 is now in PDF format. And again, here's another poem in Pangasinan dialect. (Apologies, no English translation) anto so labay mon ibaga, Amerika say kasalanan na sakey ya too et kasalanan met la na intiron luyag o bansa? lapud ta siak et anak na Afghanistan terorista met la o kaiba la na Taliban? anto so labay mon ibaga, Amerika pauranan mo kami na bala ta kababaingan mo so agawa nen kapigan labat? gieraen mo kami lapud wala ed podir mi imay lasin nampabaing ed sika? niya ay balet so ibagak ed sika kada balan umpanek ed paguew mi bala met ya ipawil ed sika ta pinabli mi so dalin na Afghanistan tan inaro mi so anak mi a singa panangaro yo ed anak yo ano ka man so onsabi agbibitn mi so kasumpalan to Commentary/Opinion Message from unknown poet holds truth for every ag
My archived posts were not actually deleted, I just changed the archive frequency to weekly and back to monthly frequency, the missing month is back in the list.
On the other hand, Makata issues from January to May 2001 is now in PDF format.
And again, here's another poem in Pangasinan dialect. (Apologies, no English translation)
anto so labay mon ibaga, Amerika
say kasalanan na sakey
ya too et kasalanan met la
na intiron luyag o bansa?
lapud ta siak et anak
na Afghanistan
terorista met la
o kaiba la na Taliban?
anto so labay mon ibaga, Amerika
pauranan mo kami na bala
ta kababaingan mo so agawa
nen kapigan labat?
gieraen mo kami
lapud wala ed podir mi
imay lasin nampabaing ed sika?
niya ay balet so ibagak ed sika
kada balan umpanek ed paguew mi
bala met ya ipawil ed sika
ta pinabli mi so dalin
na Afghanistan
tan inaro mi so anak mi a singa
panangaro yo ed anak yo
ano ka man so onsabi
agbibitn mi so kasumpalan to
Commentary/Opinion
Mess
Archive 09/01/2001 - 09/30/2001 was accidentally deleted while trying to republish the entries. A copy , however, was saved in the archive folder. I'm not sure if it is still possible to retrieve the deleted index in the blogger archive section. a leman's song the music stopped when my lips and yours parted and your hands uncupped my breasts is it because i am not a rose is it because i do not memorize your poems it si because i cannot sing like a nightingale? do not leave me o cruel hands! do not defile me with a gaze o sinful eyes! return to me o prodigal lips! let us be golden before we turn into clay i will be as beautiful as the poems you have written on my body i will be your song and i will be your flame o man-god! In the News: Web pirates ripping off top authors - survey
Archive 09/01/2001 - 09/30/2001 was accidentally deleted while trying to republish the entries. A copy , however, was saved in the archive folder. I'm not sure if it is still possible to retrieve the deleted index in the blogger archive section.
a leman's song
the music stopped
when my lips and yours parted
and your hands uncupped my breasts
is it because i am not a rose
is it because i do not memorize your poems
it si because i cannot sing like a nightingale?
do not leave me o cruel hands!
do not defile me with a gaze o sinful eyes!
return to me o prodigal lips!
let us be golden before we turn into clay
i will be as beautiful as the poems
you have written on my body
i will be your song
and i will be your flame
o man-god!
In the News: Web pirates ripping off top authors - survey
I'm having some difficulties transferring / updating my files in Y!Geocities. If I am not mistaken, the said provider now restricts access to their homepage folders thru blogger. One more thing, the banner service or the geoguide is no longer available. Due to these changes, I moved the rest of my pages particularly the inFront (news / updates) and the Makata sections in Tripod. Anyways, thank you Y!Geocities! I've great time homesteading with you these past 3 years or so.
I'm having some difficulties transferring / updating my files in Y!Geocities. If I am not mistaken, the said provider now restricts access to their homepage folders thru blogger.
One more thing, the banner service or the geoguide is no longer available. Due to these changes, I moved the rest of my pages particularly the inFront (news / updates) and the Makata sections in Tripod.
Anyways, thank you Y!Geocities! I've great time homesteading with you these past 3 years or so.
arion the prize is won and i am bound for home but O! a band of sailors planned my doom roughest gales stood still when i played a Stirring Song and the creatures nigh fell under my spell anon i flung myself into the sea where dolphins gather and borne me away into the shores of Taenarum In the News: Creeley Receives Lannan Award ORONO, Maine (AP) - Robert Creeley, a visiting professor in the English Department at the University of Maine, has become the eighth recipient of the Lannan Lifetime Achievement award. Nexus: http://www.lannan.org
arion
the prize is won and
i am bound for home
but O! a band of sailors
planned my doom
roughest gales stood still
when i played a Stirring Song
and the creatures nigh
fell under my spell
anon i flung myself
into the sea
where dolphins gather
and borne me away
into the shores of Taenarum
In the News: Creeley Receives Lannan Award
ORONO, Maine (AP) - Robert Creeley, a visiting professor in the English Department at the University of Maine, has become the eighth recipient of the Lannan Lifetime Achievement award.
Nexus: http://www.lannan.org
Kinda very unproductive these days as if my MUSE shuns me, hooked on mIRC, and busy at work. and who is he who maketh man with the WORD or so without this lyrical kiss to make a flower sing a worldly song without this jaded blade to make a rose cry and wreathe with passion without this argentine bliss to animate the atoms of existense?
Kinda very unproductive these days as if my MUSE shuns me, hooked on mIRC, and busy at work.
and who is he
who maketh man
with the WORD or so
without this lyrical kiss
to make a flower sing
a worldly song
without this jaded blade
to make a rose
cry and wreathe with passion
without this argentine bliss
to animate the atoms
of existense?
i have so loved the hills that there i planted orange-kisses apple-kisses and a hundred fruit-kisses but O! i love them most sans the green scanty drapery covering their proud twin peaks and O! i love them mostly when i hear the sweet little songs snatched from the lyric lips of Sappho no, i am not Gaius Catullus i need not speak poetry to make them - these hills swell with pride why my lips too are lines of a perfect couplet and my fingers are syllables of iambic pentameters i am the lousiest minion of the Muses if i move no hills with a kiss Makata Issue No. 10 hot off the virtual press featuring the poetry of Shirley Cahayom , and Jon Mario G. Cornel (in Pangasinan dialect) A Call for Submissions Likhaan.com is accepting poetry, short stories, and short essays on the recent spate of terrorist attacks and local violence that has been sweeping the global community. Submit contributions or comments to likhaan_online@yahoo.com on or before October 15, 2001. Receipt of your work is no
i have so loved the hills
that there i planted orange-kisses
apple-kisses and a hundred fruit-kisses
but O! i love them most sans
the green scanty drapery
covering their proud twin peaks
and O! i love them mostly
when i hear the sweet little songs
snatched from the lyric lips of Sappho
no, i am not Gaius Catullus
i need not speak poetry
to make them - these hills
swell with pride
why my lips too are lines
of a perfect couplet
and my fingers are syllables
of iambic pentameters
i am the lousiest minion of the Muses
if i move no hills with a kiss
Makata Issue No. 10 hot off the virtual press featuring the poetry of Shirley Cahayom , and Jon Mario G. Cornel (in Pangasinan dialect)
A Call for Submissions
Likhaan.com is accepting poetry, short stories, and short essays on the recent spate of terrorist attacks and local violence that has been sweeping the global community. Submit contributions or comments to likhaan_online@yahoo.com on or before October 15,