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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