I will be away from my desk and will be offline this coming Holy Week, from Wedsnesday, April 7 through Saturday, April 10, 2004 :) I will reply to other Dalityapi-related correspondence when I return. Peace be unto you!

sonito 123

dia’d sayan inabangan ya silir
dia’d sakey a sokung na Ermita
inanduyan ko ed kanonotan
impanugaw a napno’y aoaran
tan tongtong iran kabayaoasan

binaliw ko’y ilog Sinokalan
tan binegtew ko’y Binalatongan
kaiba so musian si Ilalo
ya angigiya e saray dalan
paunla ed aoiran na anlong

bangbalet ag ak la akapaoil
ta arumog ko so inka say siak

ag da met la kabat so ngaran ko
diman ed Tolong ya nanlapuan


The Arejola Foundation is spearheading the first Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Literaturan Bikolnon. Named in honor of a Bikolano propagandist, this new yearly competition aims to uplift Bikol writing by recognizing Bikolano writers and scholars with a long-overdue incentive. A P10,000 cash prize and a medallion await each winner in the poetry and fiction categories of the contest, which will have the theme of "Ini an Pangitorogon Ko para sa Saimo, Padangot Kong Kabikolan." The deadline for entries is June 30.

Anyone interested can get the complete rules from the sponsors at

The Arejola Foundation
c/o Museo de Caceres,
Holy Rosary Minor Seminary,
Naga City, Philippines

Tel. No. 054-473-8297 or e-mail PremioTomasArejola@hotmail.com.

In the News: Modern Hindi poetry
MODERN HINDI has made great strides after its adoption as India's official medium. Its literary development has been identified by Hindi scholars in successive stages of its orientation from an early narrative-descriptive versification followed by imaginative romantic poetry (called chaayaavad) and later to progressivist-socialist (pragativaad) experimentalist (prayogavaad) tendencies culminating in new poetry and non-poetry and further labels like contemporary poetry and reflective poetry.

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