Yet another poem in my native tongue.
Catherine
no akaalaguey ni imay kiew
ed iskuwelaan na Malabago
nayarin mabakat ni imay insulat
kon ngaran mo tan ngaran ko
tanda ya aminsan et
sakey kan daguem
ya dim-malan ed bilay ko
natandaan mo ni kasi imay garden
ya sasalug-salugen ta
kada kabwasan?
no anto so panangarok
ed saraman ya tanaman
untan met so panangaro'd sika
panangaron agko nibaga
no siak so kaarap mo la
liket kon baleg no
say limam et naembenan
no sika la so katungtong o
kagalaw na erelan
dim-malan iray aguew
tan nansumpal tayo
ed saman ya iskuwelaan
nan-ermenan ko so balitan
wala kala kono ed Amerika
O Catherine! sakey kan daguem
ya dim-malan ed bilay ko
balet angitilak ka na alaala
ya agko nalingwanan
no maminsan pangkelawan ko
bengatlan nabitla so ngaran mo
siguro tanda na pagkamakatak
nen kalabyan labat binangunan
so kugkugip pian nisulat
iyan tula
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US Fulbright scholarship application open
THE Philippine American Educational Foundation (PAEF) is now accepting application for the prestigious Fulbright scholarship grants in the United States. The awards are for both degree (Master's and Ph.D.) and non-degree (doctoral enrichment and dissertation research) studies for 20032004. All fields are eligible except engineering, medicine and related fields, applied mathematics and applied sciences.
Nexus: Burning Word -- a literary magazine and conflux. A collection of poetry and prose updated daily. 2002 SXSW Awards winner for the Content/E-zine category.
Catherine
no akaalaguey ni imay kiew
ed iskuwelaan na Malabago
nayarin mabakat ni imay insulat
kon ngaran mo tan ngaran ko
tanda ya aminsan et
sakey kan daguem
ya dim-malan ed bilay ko
natandaan mo ni kasi imay garden
ya sasalug-salugen ta
kada kabwasan?
no anto so panangarok
ed saraman ya tanaman
untan met so panangaro'd sika
panangaron agko nibaga
no siak so kaarap mo la
liket kon baleg no
say limam et naembenan
no sika la so katungtong o
kagalaw na erelan
dim-malan iray aguew
tan nansumpal tayo
ed saman ya iskuwelaan
nan-ermenan ko so balitan
wala kala kono ed Amerika
O Catherine! sakey kan daguem
ya dim-malan ed bilay ko
balet angitilak ka na alaala
ya agko nalingwanan
no maminsan pangkelawan ko
bengatlan nabitla so ngaran mo
siguro tanda na pagkamakatak
nen kalabyan labat binangunan
so kugkugip pian nisulat
iyan tula
In the News: Cronin, McCracken win PEN awards
Justin Cronin, author of the short story collection ''Mary and O'Neil'' (Dial Press), has won the 2002 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction...
US Fulbright scholarship application open
THE Philippine American Educational Foundation (PAEF) is now accepting application for the prestigious Fulbright scholarship grants in the United States. The awards are for both degree (Master's and Ph.D.) and non-degree (doctoral enrichment and dissertation research) studies for 20032004. All fields are eligible except engineering, medicine and related fields, applied mathematics and applied sciences.
Nexus: Burning Word -- a literary magazine and conflux. A collection of poetry and prose updated daily. 2002 SXSW Awards winner for the Content/E-zine category.
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