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Monday, October 31, 2011
Letters to Marilou
1.
No bright stars not eyes becharm me but thine
sometimes at night my pillow thrice upturn
and spells lovespeak ere I to bed resign
content am i that while the candles burn
You’d dream of me or perchance remember
the one who penned your name upon a sky
I oft include a wish in my prayer
that you beloved marilou are nigh
and if heaven’s sorrow’s brought upon me
for loving the god’s minion rosabel
fain would i walk into my Calvary
but then beloved I shall love you still
alas! my love when the morrow is come
without you beside me I have no home
2.
O when I behold the westering sun
& feel over me the fall of the night
when bamboo leaves I hear
humming as one
sweet symphony ‘neath the gleaming moonlight
And summer’s breathing attemper & low
whispering uncouth sounds in my ears
perhaps untold secrets that i should know
or unheard love songs in the olden years
i think of thee beloved of our prime
still strong still in love
And still young at heart
dancing the tango moments of our time
before the winds of death keep us apart
but bear in mind my love
that I love thee
And this will always remind thee of me
Published in Manila Times / Sunday Magazine (10/30/2011)
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Lawas kan Pinabli
sonito 158
panon takan aroen Pinabli?
ipetek ko man ira’y sonata
anlongen ko man ira’y sonito
ag iraya onkana anganko
ed puson agto amta’y ondengel
ed saray dangoan na panangaro
panon takan pablien Inaro?
yalay ko man ed sika ya’y egpang
tan sinonito iran pilalek
ag iraya onkana anganko
ed puson anggapo’y pililikna
tan sagiat ed sayan manangaro
balet ta lapu’d sika so musia
ligliwak lawas ya anlongen ka
sonito 282
say aro et aliwan masiblet
inkuan ed daan ya pangoliran
aliwan maamot a singa no
masamyong a rosas ya pinmelnak
say aro et anggapo’y gegemtan
no ag ta say getman panangaro
anggapo’y arum ya pitamitam
no ag ta say linak na liknaan
say aro et walnan mapalogar
amta to’y laknab na pililikna
iter to’y nepeg a kawayangan
anggano katekep tonia’y ermen
anggapo’y takut ya alageyan
so patey tan say andi anggaan
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Psychedelia
Experimental Film. Psychedelic journey into the inner self invokes the spirits and inspires music and poetry.
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Today in 2001: Ngarem na Bilay
ala sais
nilaknaban la’y bilunget
so dalan a pasempet
naksawan la’y salin
ngalngali agla naikurang
ed betel na dagem
ambelbelat la
ira’y lokablokab na mata
tan takeb
tantandagan so silew
ed dorongawan na abung
balet arawdawi ni
pirawat la’y makasabi
pian makapanpainawa
ed manaalagar lan dukulan
no makaugip ak
komun nabangon ak la
ya wala’d akualan mo Katawan
twilight of life / six o’clock / hidden by darkness / is the road home / tired are the feet / almost unable to stride / in the coldness of the wind / really heavy / are the lids of my eyes / and shoulders / watching for the light / from the window of the house / but it’s still far away / hoping to arrive / so as to rest / in the awaiting bed / if i fall asleep / i wish I’d wake up / on your lap o god (translated by Ayesah Tecson)
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Friday, October 14, 2011
12,000-strong crowd to sing Pangasinan folk song
Thursday, October 13, 2011
DAGUPAN CITY -- A historical event will take place in the city minutes after the St. John the Evangelist Metropolitan Cathedral bell is rung at 6 p.m., which signals the Angelus, on Friday.
Students from 15 private and public high schools will have their grand choral performance. With candles lit, they will simultaneously sing Malinac Lay Labi, Pangasinan’s very own native folk song.
They will be joined by their fellow students, schools officials, and teachers, city officials, and Dagupenos in a crowd that is expected to reach 12,000. The mass singing will be held at along Burgos Street (from the West Central Elementary School I up to the corner of Rivera Street-Burgos Street).
This is the culmination of Project Sanengseng, a one-of-a-king choral competition conceptualized by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas. It was carried-out in partnership with the Dagupan City Schools Division headed by City Schools Superintendent Alma Ruby Torio.
Father Villegas will also the announce the winners in the competition.
At 4:30 p.m., the students will converge/assemble at Jovellanos Street (beside the Cathedral) at part of Burgos Street for the final rehearsal.
At 5:30 p.m, the Project Sanengseng finale will formally start with an opening song and other songs (all Pangasinan songs) by the different participating schools.
Meawhile, a traffic re-routing scheme will be implemented starting at 1p.m. until the event is over said Public Order and Safety Office Chief Robert Erfe-Mejia.
“What we are asking our youth in Dagupan is to rediscover the power and the beauty of Pangasinan songs because we feel that is being lost and we do not want to lose by default. We the adults wanted to teach our children that there is beauty and dignity in Pangasinan culture. And as starters, we are asking [students] to learn Malinac Lay Labi,” Villegas said during the launching of the project several months ago.
Villegas said he discovered that a lot of Pangasinense youths today could not speak Pangasinan.
“Because we want them to learn, it will not be a choir competition, rather it will be a school competition so that everybody in that school is obliged to study the song and hopefully become their pride as a Dagupeno, as Pangasinenses,” he stated.
He asked schools officials to include students in the choral group, even those who could not carry a tune. “Songs unify, let them be part of the group,” he explained.
During the judging where the all the judges and Villegas himself went from campus to campus to listen the students’ rendition of the Malinac Lay Labi (contest piece), and and their choice Pangasinan song (warm-up song).
“Wherever you go, when you are asked to sing, sing Malinac Lay Labi because this is our identiy song,” he remarked.
Here is the lyrics of Malinac Lay Labi, with the English translation by Santiago Villafania, a Pangasinense poet, and had been published at dalityapi unpoemed. In a phone conversation on Thursday with Villafania, he said the English translation can also be sung to the tune of Malinac Lay Labi:
Malinac Lay Labi (A night piece)
Malinak lay labi, Oras lay mareen
The night is calm my love, And time is fleeting still
Mapalpalnay dagem, Katekep toy linaew
The wind is breathing low, Kissed by the evening dew
Samit day kugip ko, Binangonan kon tampol
How sweet it is to dream, That I have to wake for you
Lapu'd say linggas mo, Sikan-sikay amamayoen
Your fair attemper face, I shall always caress
Refrain:
Lalo la bilay no sika lay nanengneng
O when the night is come, And you my love I see
Napunas lan amin so ermin ya akbibiten
The sadness all is gone, Buried deeply in my soul
No nanonotan ko lay samit day ugalim
Whenever I recall, Loving ways you are wont to
Agtaka nalingwanan anggad kaoyos na bilay.
I shall not forget you, Till I am laid to rest
(Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre/Sunnex)
Source: 12,000-strong crowd to sing Pangasinan folk song (SunStar Pangasinan)
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Calming my Inner Storm
I have just deactivated my facebook account. So, for the meantime I will be using my old blogger account to post some news, announcement, and updates here.
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I will be in San Carlos City, Pangasinan tomorrow (10/15/2011) to give a lecture on Pangasinan Orthography. I was invited by some teachers who are currently writing and compiling Pangasinan stories for Grade 1.
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A Tao 道 Sign
Santiago B. Villafania, Pangasinan poet, is the author of poetry collections Pinabli tan arum ni'ran Anlong (Beloved & Other Poems), Balikas na Caboloan (Voices from Caboloan) published by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under its UBOD New Authors Series (2005) and Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles (2007). Villafania is one of the 11 Outstanding Pangasinenses conferred with the 2010 ASNA Award for the Arts and Culture (literature) category during the first-ever Agew na Pangasinan and 430th Foundation Day of Pangasinan on April 2010. Read more »
