I'll be attending the AWARD (in Laoag City?) and the Ulupan-Pangasinan (PSU-Lingayen) meetings tomorrow -- 16th of February 2003. Will follow-up on the participation of our association for the World Poetry Day and present/submit some of my works for publication.

An experimental poem in Pangasinan language after my Sapphics or Sapphic Verses.

Talurtur a Sapphica

i.

di payak a salita
balikas ed dagem
balikas ed danum
balikas ed dalin
balikas ed apoy
tan balikas ed kumaliman iliminto
ya tataoagen da'y aro

ii.

dengel mo
ta ibalikas ko
a singa si Sappho
nen inbalikas to
iray liknaan to
para ed sakey a diosan
kolor-ubi so mosing
na sosó

iii.

nen inmulagat koy matak
ag ak ni agaoat
na balitoc ya gamet
nen Eos


iv.

maminsan ni pinabli
sakey ak ya kumpapey
asagmak ed dakep
na inka-rosas mo
agaylay palar ko ey!

v.

oalay anton aponsil
ed pagew ko inaro
nen dinmalan ka
ed arapan ko

vi.

akalek iray ag nanengneng
meremere iray bolobolong
angob na ilang-ilang
so mapalayupoy a dagem

vii.

agaylay kaatagey
agko nagaoat
so labiteoen
pian nagamoran
so panangarom


viii.

anto so nibaga na matam?

ix.

nakaukulan taka
O musian Erato
manpatanir kan magano
ed palandey mon Parnassus

x.

angoban mo ak
pian unsamit
so balikas ko

xi.

labiteoen
malinac nen say labin
mapalnay dagem

xii.

binangonan kon tampol
so kugip kalabian
anengneng ko si Cupido
nen inbasibas to
so buragaw a balabar to
lapu'd imon to'd siak!
xiii.

alagey ka
alagey ka
tan arap ka'd siak
lakseban mo so matam
pian nanengneng mo
so panangarok

xiv.

odino lakseban mo
so matak O Erato!
pian nanengneng ko
so kolor na balikas
ya inyesaes mo'd siak

xv.

naandi lay bulan
naandi met lay Pleiades
dia ed kapegleyan na labi
mareen ya linmabas so oras
nanbinukbokoran ak
uumamengen so limgas
na lupam pinabli
tan say samit na imis mo

xvi.

say angob
at alioan angob
no anggapoy bales ya angob

xvii.

anto so taoay na bibil kon
sakey met ya kupla?

xviii

no mabilay si Sappho
ed sarayan panaon
tan makatalos na salitak
no nabasa to irayan balikas
anto met kasi so nibaga na mata to?

xix.

anto so nibagam
O sakey a manangaro?

xx.

anto so nibagam inaro?

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