Will be on hiatus for the Holy Week until the 20th of April. I'll surely spend a few days in Pangasinan.

On the other hand, here's a new Pangasinan sonnet dedicated to Jaime P. Lucas, the founder & first president of the Ulupan na Pansiansia'y Salitan Pangasinan (Association for the Preservation of the Pangasinan Language), to Dr. Linda R. Andaya & Leonarda Bartazar, the Dames of Pangasinan literature, to Sergio Bumadilla, an Umaanlong (Poet) whom I really admire for his profound use of Pangasinan language in his poetry, and to Mel Jovellanos, the author and compiler of the new Pangasinan-English dictionary.

dengel yo pa’ya’y sakey a dangoan
panangidayew ko ed sikayon
angipaalagey na pondasion
na Ulupan tan say Balon Silew

ingiya yo ira’y balontobo
ya unakad ed dalan na anlong
naptanga’y kinmigtel ya liknaan
ed liab na balon sinsibilidad

nia nata’y bales ko ed sagpot yo
pinabli yon ngaran igulis ko
Monolith ed libron Malagilion
pamirbir ed sikayon atateng

na salita tan litiraturan
Caboloan ono Pangasinan

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