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Reading the Pinabli & Other Poems
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Elfren Fernandez reading the Pinabli & Other Poems
Dr. Linda R. Andaya released her first Pangasinan book entitled Gamal tan arum ni'ran antikey ya istorya . A collection of Pangasinan short stories. It's because of this book that I came out with the following sonnet:
sonito 216
(ed libron Gamal tan arum ni'ran antikey ya istorya nen Dr. Linda R. Andaya)
aliling to'y tanol na tambuyog
ono hambayo'd gilig na dayat
lalagyaten to'y kailalakan
ed akualan na dilin salita
sarayan antikey ya istorya
so manliliing ed saray musia
pian ombulaslas so panulatan
dia ed Parnasu na Caboloan
egpang irayan pakarukdukan
na panangaro tan pangoliran
tongtong irayan binmabalitok
ed litiraturan Pangasinan
parlasan mo'y matam kaluyagan
isasalming tonia so kulturam
I just got a complimentary copy of 40 Mga Tulang Alay sa mga Martir na Kabataang (published by kilometer64 ) during the Bloggers Night at the Fudge, EspaƱa last Nov. 27.
A gesture and a salute to Spin, Rustum, Alex, Psy-CoH, Kapi, Mark Angeles and the rest of the contributors to the anthology.
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209th sonnet added to Malagilion: Soniton Pangasinan .
sonito 209
(para ed si Maria P. Magsano*)
magter ya ina na kaoayangan
tan kanepegan da'ra'y bibii
makuykuyep la'y silew na luyag
ya pinarlangan yo na inkorit
ya kombilay tan bilay-aoaran
dinmedeen la'ra'y sumusulat
pigpigara la'ra'y umaanlong
ya oala ni'y nagnap ya liknaan
para'd abangonan ya salita
tan pinulyan ya litiratura
matabtabang met la'y pakataoay
na sinmulming ya kailalakan
ed imparongo yon pangoliran
liing yo la'y musia'y Pangasinan
*Maria Prado Magsano was born on February 3, 1883. She studied at the University of the Philippines and ...
Rosales where I was born is close to the borders of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija. My forefathers were Ilokanos who migrated to this part of the province at the turn of the 19th century; they had intended to go to the Cagayan Valley but were enamored by the lure of the verdant plains of eastern Pangasinan and they decided to settle there instead. In the early thirties, as a boy, I witnessed this migration; the Ilokanos came in their bull carts with their plows the uprooted posts of their houses and weaving looms. They parked in the town plaza for the night. They were all Ilokanos; some of those who came in bull carts were Pangasinan traders with coconut candy (bocayo) dried fish, salt and bagoong to sell. There was commerce and, of course, intermarriage and one of my cousins married a pretty girl from Calasiao. I got interested in history, having read Rizal’s novels in Grade School, and concentrated on the Revolution of 1896 after I learned that my grandfather was in it. I came to know so man...
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