Just browsing the NCCA Features (August issue) first thing this morning and a feature by Lissa Gene Mata entitled Reaching Critical Mass: The UP Likhaan Creative Writing Center really caught my attention. It would be a dream come true for me if I find myself one day in one of those UP Writing Workshops. I'll keep on dreaming . . . I know too well how hard it is for a writer to get into the UP workshops >:-p

Yet another poem in Pangasinan language. I really hope to come out with a collection of verses written in my native tongue. Publish it into a book probably next year though I'm not sure if there's going to be a publisher who'd be interested to put it in print. Optimistic, huh (?!)

bales

sikayo 'ran atateng na atateng ko
daboc la'd pagew nen aman Adan
agko anta so inka-makata yo
agko anta no anton salita yo binitla
no iner tan panon yo insulat
iramay daan ya kakabatan

agko met anta no panon yo apaesel
maaro yo 'ran mamarikit
nayarin impanengneng yo
so inka-laki ed panag-balsig na kiew o
anilbin manag-asul na danum
nayari met ya indalan yo'd lastog
tan agaylay samit a dila
no agyo indalan ed masanton pelesan

lalon agko anta no akin et
insalat yo so pinablin dalin
ed sancaterter ya dalan Kastila
timmalimokor kayo'd santon Romano
gaoa labat ed kiew tan bato
sikara balet ya dayew angamkam
inabuso niy so kabiiyan yo

insapuso yo so libron sengegan
na impakalingoan yo'd saray ngaran
na abangonan yo 'ran dios

niya ak balet natan ay!
pilit kon tutuntunen so dalan
paunla ed nalapuan yo
krus ya ingulis ed muling ko
taoir a kasalanan nalapu'd sikayo

anggapoy oala no maksil
so bosis yo'd kanunutan ko
manlapo natan bosis ak met
tan balon silew a manangipanunot
ed saray manumtumboc ed siak
angga'd say amalsan kataoan
itdan to ak lay kareenan

bosis ak met ya mangablit
na kanunutan daray balon makata
a singa ipangablit yo'd kanunutan ko
bosis ak et ya mangistorbo ed sikara
a singa impangistorbo yo'd kugip ko
dia ed kaalaremay labi . . .
dia ed kaalaremay labi . . .

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