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Villanelle 16

gala O musia na panangaro tambayo’y naandin pililikna tanila’y lakseb ya ilalam ko leksab ka’d nipugaron parnasu tan ipanengneng so inkasika gala O musia na panangaro penepenek mo so pakarngel ko na sonito odino sonata tanila’y lakseb ya ilalam ko pilalek ka ya ontalintao singa limgas-dayat o danaya gala O musia na panangaro dengel mo so kuyab tonia’y puso wala’y no anton ag to nibaga tanila’y lakseb ya ilalam ko ed sakey ya aplos o lakap mo natoor so piaet ko ed bekta gala O musia na panangaro tanila’y lakseb ya ilalam ko

Dalityapi reloaded

I am using blogspot.com (Blogger's free hosting service) again. Thanks to blogger's latest feature where you could point or redirect your Blog*Spot address to your custom domain. Accesskey assignments: » Home [1] » Profile [U] » Makata [M] » RSS [R] » Contact [W] Blogger and/or blogspot.com do not have accessibility features yet. Indubitably, XHTML and CSS validation on this site will definitely fail.

Anto so Kakanaan na Sakey ya Umaanlong a Pangasinan?

Para angan ko ed saray oala ni ed kalangoeran ya naubol so ulo ra ed aoiran no iner say uusaren a salita et Filipino tan English, nayarin anggapo. Ompano ag da labat la naparlasan na linggis ira’y sulsulat da’ra’y pigpigaran umaanlong ed luyag. Say makasengeg, anggapo’y pililikna la na tobunbalo ed abangonan ya salita. Sakey ni, ag da aaralen, panaaralan tan inaral so salitan Pangasinan ed impapaletneg iran aoiran tan unibersidad. Naandi ira’y umaanlong tayo a singa no kaoayan ed datin Caboloan. Anggaman ontan, nampanaon so salita tan litiraturan Pangasinan ed lima da’ra’y zarzuelista a manlapu ed si Pablo Mejia angga ed say nobilistan si Maria Magsano. Limamplon taon so apalabas insan lamet binmaltaw ira’y pluma da’ra’y sumusulat ed taoir a salita. Bangbalet asagmak ira natan ed mairap a kipapasen ta aliing tan abangon ira ed panaon da’ra’y kailalakan ya oala’y siping a dila. Anggapo la’y dengel na sakey ya alindaoay ya umaanlong ta pilatek ni na karaklan ira’y sumusulat ed bayes a di

Makata is fresh!

Makata Issue No.3 , March 2007 is now available online featuring the works of our home-grown and international poets. Poetry by Aurora Antonovic, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Zig Madamba Dulay, Dennis Espada, CW Hawes, Iliana Ilieva, Rachel Chan Suet Kay, Phillip Kimpo Jr., Noel Malicdem, Anthony Pabon, Rositza Pironska, Alexander Martin Remollino, Maricar Reynaldo, Rey Tamayo, Jr. and Robert D. Wilson. Send all submissions / contributions for Volume 8 April 2007 issue to svillafania at yahoo [dot] com and to Jason Chancoco at tarusan22 at yahoo [dot] com (for Tagalog/Filipino & Bikol poetry). Also accepting poems written in other Philippine languages: Cebuano, Iluko, Hiligaynon, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, etc.

"Disabled-friendly" website award

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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), National Computer Center - Commission on Information and Communication Technology (NCC-CICT), Vision Office Support Services, Limited and the National Council for the Welfare of Disable Persons (NCWDP) awarded a plaque of recognition to Santiago B. Villafania for his selfless contribution to make their website “disabled-friendly”, to inspire best practices and improve access of the public including persons with disabilities to Emilio Aguinaldo College 's programs and services of/for persons with disabilities aimed at opening up various opportunities for them to the fullest extent possible. The award was given during the closing ceremonies of DSWD-sponsored seminar “Regional Focal Persons on Accessible ICT for Persons with Disabilities” on Thursday, February 22, 2007, in Summer Place Hotel, Baguio City. The EAC website has been certified by the Philippine Web Accessibility Group (PWAG), as of 8 December 2006, as accessible aft

Sonnet To A Pilgrim Soul

When the sun gilds the sky in the morning And deep darkness makes a noble retreat O hear the music in the air fleeting For you can never recapture the beat When the morning spreads her warm golden wings And the sapphire sky is wordlessly deep Look yonder and feast with your eyes the things Which you seldom see in your dreamful sleep Don’t you feel forlorn beloved pilgrim If the world will mind your lowly a state A time will come when their eyes will grow dim And they too will fall on our self-same fate An empty shell to decay into dust When our days in the sun come into past (My first poem ritualized in print. Published in the Philippine Panorama, 1993)