Dalityapi Unpoemed

FOREWORD I would like to share my essay, a review on a Filipino poet, which will be published at the local literary journal (magazine). The poet is my friend, one of my most admired Filipino poets writing in his native tongue. I am passionate about this essay because I have my own struggle as a writer with a great desire to write in my native language. But unlike my friend, I had written only few pieces in my lingua franca and 98% of my writings are in English. I must humbly admit that I studied several languages and spoke three native Filipino languages, yet I am writing in English. I feel guilty about it, but I have no choice because I could reach a wider audience writing in English. The following essay is about Poetry as a revelation of truth in the context of native language. This is a critical review based on a Filipino poet, Sonny Villafania, who is writing in his native Pangasinan language with his second book "MALAGILION: Sonnets tan Villanelles". This is also my tri...

Say bulan na Agosto so nidatek a Bulan na Lingguahi ed lapag a bansa basi ed Proclamation 1041 ya dinatekan nen datin President Fidel Ramos nen On 15 July 1997. Peteg a kabiangan so amin ya awiran a pribado tan pampubliko ed pangisilibra ed sayan Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa ya kuan. Manlapu'd igapo na ogaw ed abeban awiran ya angga ed kasumpal to ed kolihiyo, aralen to so salitan Tagalog ono Pilipino (Filipino la natan) lapu'd ta sikato lanti so sakey ya apilin lingguahi ya usaren ed panagbangat. Kaampar tonia so salitan English. Kaloob na ogaw ed awiran ono iskuilaan nakaukulan ton aralen so simplin abakada, tan gramatika ya angga'd awaran, atagey a klasin panulatan tan litiratura na Tagala. Kapaway balet na ogaw ed awiran, duma la so saykolohikal ya kanonotan to tan nayari met ya epel la'y dila to ed abangonan ton salita laut la no agto sipur a salita so Tagalog. Dia ed luyag tayo, impaneknek ed saray atateng tayo ya say salitan Pangasinan et sakey labat a dayalikto (di...

Napantotoonan natan na sakey a National Artist for Literature so pilalek ton “Reklamasyon sa Pambansang Gunita” ya say labay ton nagawa et say pamawi na karaanan ono tawir a litiratura ya onkana ed lapag a bansa. Balet no say pantutongtongan la et say litiraturan pambansa karaklan no aliwan amin ed saraya et nisulat ed salitan Tagala. Ag onaaboloy iyan sumusulat ed piaet tonian ikikinon a too ta sakey iyan makasengeg ed lalon kabalang na litiraturan nisulat ed abangonan a salita. No saray anlong, pangoliran, tongtong tan arum ni’ran kabiangan na kuritan o litiraturan Pangasinan et yalis ono ipatalus ed Tagalog o Filipino, ag ombayag manmaliw layan kabiangan na litiraturan Tagalog/Filipino tan nayarin agla nabirbir ono birbiren so nanlapuan ton salita dia ed arapen iran panaon. Mas mararakep no say gawaen tayon riklamasion et onkana para ed lapag a luyag ta sikatoya so nakaukulan laut la ya say litiraturan Pangasinan et wala la’d tambib na kabalang ono (d)ibolusion. Manlimamplon taon la...