Makata Issue No.7 is now off the virtual press featuring the works of Rosendo Makabali, Shirley Cahayom, Luwi Infante, and Jason Chancoco.

In the News: Girls' School Reopens in Kabul
With songs, poetry and speeches by local dignitaries, a girls' school renovated in part by money donated by German schoolchildren was formally opened Saturday in the latest sign of sweeping change in the Afghan capital less than a year after Taliban rule collapsed.

Yet another poem in Pangasinan language.

bato ed posoy ponti

mabetbet nen saman
mangistorya si bai Marin
kada labi
lalo la no sikamin apo to
maingal ni tan ag maka-ogip

aminsan naistorya to
si laki Tiago aman
ya nanari ed Tolong
anggad man ed Binalatongan
kabosol na matatakew
tan kapara ton digalingan

nen kacsilan to ni
na sayan laki Tiago
anabat tan akipustaan
ed managlacoy agamang
say cuanto
bayaran to so cantidar
na samplatyadon agamang
no agto naupot ya canen
balet no naupot to
ag manbayar ni ultimon sintimo

tan sinimot to kono
diad pigaran minuto
a singa labat angan na deremen
timmaynan ya angagapoy oala
say managlaco atulala

say sicrito to cuanen bai
sakey a baton nanlapo
ed posoy ponti

angabcaboasan
kaiba so capinsan
sinorob a mantalikepkep
so kapontian
nan-anap na sengeg
ya oalay poso

tangay-tangay
oala ni ed canunutan
so istorya nen bai
calabyan

ag niaraoi
say capinsan a bii
pimmetek ed nalmon poso
timmangay
limmicdem
(singa mipaparaoat)
tan bengat lan immeyag na
Darnaaaaaa!

dimmepac
amonitiy sengeg
angioasioas na bislac
alopac so bolong na ponti
abattog kalamor
so pigaran sibaoeng

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