batoganang' banwag: Kuan: Tulo Ka Haiku

6/26/2006

Kuan: Tulo Ka Haiku

(Illustration: JOSUA CABRERA)

Pagkatumpag sa Kamingaw

Natun-as na ang adlaw.
Apan kanus-a
matumpag ang kamingaw?

Nangahagbong nga Bitoon

Iphon ta: mga bitoon
nga nangahagbong.
Asa man ta padulong?

Sa Palibot sa Hardin

Hanging itom, sa atong
hardin naglibot.
Kanus-a ta mag-ibot?

10 comments:

Michael U. Obenieta said...: Hi, Allfried:

Salamat sa hukngay. "Natun-as" is not taken as a literal construct. I intend the word to suggest night--- the collapse of light-- as a wreckage or remains of the day.

"Hanging itom" is an idiom for the ill wind that surrounds and threatens to sweep away our human yearnings for sweetness and light.

As far as implications are concerned, it's like water: it seeks its own level.And effects are either immediate or indefinite. Either way, the text is open-ended.

In the end, meaning is a maze. You either find your way out or in.

Ayu-ayo. Nalipay ko nga gitagaan nimo'g higayon kining akong haiku.; 10:05 PM
kendi 'ching said...: pagkatumpag sa kamingaw. igo ko. pastilan.; 1:33 AM
MICHAEL U. OBENIETA said...: Hi, allfried:

Ang akong masulti mao ra nga ang balak usahay duna'y lahi nga kinabuhi gawas sa magsusulat ug sa magbabasa. Nagtuo pud ko nga ang balak mao ang minotaur: naa ra nato kon kita molikay ug makigharong niini.

I beg to disagree that "hanging itom" is an English idiom. Bisdak kaayo ni nga panultion. Gigamit kini kasagaran isip panunglo, pananglitan, "Maayo ta'g hapakon ka's hanging itom!"

Dili pud ko mouyon nga duna'y "hierarchy of idioms" diin ang gipadayag mahimong tukma sa usa ka pinulongan ug dili sa lain. Ang balak mao'y mangita sa iyang kaugalingong "idiom," bisan pa'g tingog sa usa ka Martian ang iyang palanogon. Nalipay ko nga nadugtong nimo ang koneksyon sa "natun-as" ug "nalumpag." Duna ni kalabutan sa imahen nga mga habog nga "buildings" sa "illustration" ni Josua nga nagtanggong sa kahayag sa adlaw ug nag-anino sa kainit sa kagawasan sa pagkatunhay sa pagminahalay.

Ug bahin pud sa magkalahi sa panan-aw sa magbabalak ug magbabasa, ang balak di manginlabot kon nagkauyon ba sila ug wala. Ang mnahinungdanon nga siya gitagaan og pagtagad sa pagsulat ug pagbasa niini.

Sa akong bahin, igo na kanako nga wala ka mahimutang sa haiku nga imong gituki. Kay mao pud kana'y buot nakong dangatan, sa pagkatinuod lang, pahiuyon sa mensahe sa maong haiku.

Alang kanako, nahuman na ang maong balak. Ug nagpangamay pa ang daghan pang mga tanghaga nga akong harongonon.

Ayu-ayo! :) Salamat sa pagtagad sa haiku.; 2:07 AM
x said...: maayong udto, sir myke! ganahan kaayo ko sa ikaduhang haiku. nindot sab kaayo ang mga sketch... salamat sa imbitasyon sa kahayag, nga imong gi-post sa among blog. ayo-ayo. ^_^; 9:58 PM
MICHAEL U. OBENIETA said...: Hi, Ron:

Ang pulong mahimong mabaw o lawom depende pud sa kamabaw o kalawom sa salabutan o kahimatngon sa magbabasa?

Ha'y maayo og ikaw na la'y mosuwat sa labing simple ug labing haom para masuwayan pud nimo ang misteryo sa pamalak? :); 1:45 AM
MICHAEL U. OBENIETA said...: Hi, Ron:

Ang pulong mahimong mabaw o lawom depende pud sa kamabaw o kalawom sa salabutan o kahimatngon sa magbabasa?

Ha'y maayo og ikaw na la'y mosuwat sa labing simple ug labing haom para masuwayan pud nimo ang misteryo sa pamalak? :); 1:45 AM
kendi 'ching said...: what are the rules in making haiku gani?

naa may guy secret admirer akong manghud, nagpadala ug flowers ug nagsulat ug haiku... ganahan ko makahibalo kung sakto ba ang iyang gisuwat according sa format sa haiku...; 8:44 PM
MICHAEL U. OBENIETA said...: Hi. Kendi:

Technically, a haiku is a condensed meditation on nature with three lines composed of 17 syllables. First line has 5 syllabes, the 2nd line has 7, and the 3rd line has 5 syllables; 11:13 PM
MICHAEL U. OBENIETA said...: Hi, Allfried:

These Bisdak haikus are variations and approximations on the 5-7-5 format of Japanese haiku. Cebuano being polysyllabic, unlike Japanese words, it would be hara-kiri to hew the Bisdak sensibility along the Nippon way of the haiku. Besides, I don't want the "strict" form to be repressive of the content. What I aspired was not the copying of the form per se, but the approximation of the haiku tone. Because the creative act is supposed to liberating, I consider the idea of pushing the borders of form as a function of imagination, too. Ana lang! :); 8:21 AM
kendi 'ching said...: ahhh...okies. mao diay.

i still have to look for the haiku from her secret admirer. she's keeping it somewhere else. thanks!; 6:28 AM

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BALHIBOON NGA TULOMANON

"Reimmersion (in native culture) is not an end in itself; it is to define more clearly the native grounds on which the Cebuano poet stands, the local parameters of language and experience, toward the end that he can stand in the world confident in the singular value of his own voice...To conserve and extend the resources to which the Cebuano poet is heir by enhancing the natural rhythms of native speech, cultivating the rich concreteness of dialect, and confronting the particulars of his social experience...

The Cebuano poet today does not come upon a language that is already there, ready to use; he has to recreate it not only out of the rawness of daily speech but summon out of language that which has already fallen away from common consciousness and use."

-- Dr. Resil Mojares,
"Cebuano Poetry: Looking Backward, Forward."

PADULONG SA PANGANOD SA ILANG MGA PULONG

"What could I say at all without my roots?... What could I say without coming to ground?... and I took no journey other than the return."
- Pablo Neruda

"And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time."
- T.S. Eliot

"The work of language deserves our greatest care, for the tongue’s fire may devour the world, or may light the way."
- Scott Russell Sanders

“Literature takes shape and life in the body, in the wombs of the mother tongue.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god… The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
- Derek Walcott

"We ascend, from the infinite pit of our perceptions, to the finite life of words."
- William Bronk

"The mission of poetry is to create among people the possibility of wonder, admiration, mystery, the sense that life is marvelous... To make life a marvel--that is the role of poetry."
- Octavio Paz

"Poetry has a great digestive system and can consume and recycle almost anything. It's the poet's persona that gives meaning to the process. The first important act of the imagination is to create the person who will write the poems. And that's not the end of it. We have to invent and reinvent who we are until we arrive at the self we can bear to live with and die with. Art demands of the artist the capacity for self-renewal. Without it, art withers. And so does the life."
- Stanley Kunitz

"Poetry can bring together those parts of us which exist in dread and those which have the surviving sense of a possible happiness, collectivity, community, a loss of isolation."
- Adrienne Rich

"By making us stop for the moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other."
- Rita Dove

"Poetry gives us revelations, flashes, which illuminate those things which were mysterious to us."
- Victor Hernandez Cruz

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6/26/2006

Kuan: Tulo Ka Haiku

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