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Naaalala Kita, Kung Paano Ka Noon ~ ni Pablo Neruda (salin mula sa Ingles ni Su Layug — na salin ni M.S. Merwin — at Kastila)

18 Thursday Apr 2013

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Autumn, Fall, Filipino translation, Flame, Love, Memory, Merwin, Neruda, Poetry, Remembering, Tagalog translation, Twilight

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Naaalala kita, kung paano ka noong nakaraang taglagas.


Ikaw yung beret na abuhin at ang pusong mahinahon.


Sa mga mata mo, pilit na nagtatalo ang lagablab ng dapit-hapon.


At naglaglagan ang mga dahon sa tubig ng iyong kaluluwa


Nakakapit sa mga braso ko, animo’y gumagapang na halaman


Tinitipon ng mga dahon ang tinig mong malumanay.


Apoy ng pagkamangha, nagtutupok sa uhaw ko.


Hayasinta* —  bughaw, matamis na pulupot sa aking kaluluwa


Nadarama kong naglalakbay ang mga mata mo, lumipas na ang taglagas:


Abuhing beret, tinig ng ibon, tahanang puso,


Kung saan dumayo ang aking mga buntung-hininga


at ang aking mga halik, nagsilaglagan, maliliksing mga baga


Langit na dumaong. Patag ng bulubundok:


Ang alaala mo ay binubuo ng liwanag, ng usok, ng lawang walang-tinag!


Sa dako pa, lagpas sa iyong mga mata, lumalagablab ang takipsilim.


Mga tuyong dahon ng taglagas umiinog sa iyong kaluluwa.

*Hyasinta — nilikhang salita, paglalaro sa salitang “hyacinth” at “sinta”

 

 

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Poison

21 Thursday Mar 2013

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Filipino translation, Kristel Tejada, Osorrio, Philippines, Poetry, Poverty, Suicide

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Poison

(translated from “Lason” (see original excerpt below) by Joi Barrios) 

We grasp the knives’ edges
because we have been edged onto
the lips of ravines,
because wretchedness is wretched.
We self-consume in flames,
because we are enslaved
by the country gasping for life

 

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(artwork) Astonished Mother  by 

Alfonso Ossorio (Philippines, active United States, 1916-1990) 

 posted under LACMA public domain policy http://collections.lacma.org/node/167355

 

Lason 

~ Joi Barrios

 

Kumakapit tayo sa patalim,
Pagkat tayo’y nagigipit,
Sa gilid ng bangin ay natutulak,
Pagkat ang dalita’y marahas.
Sa apoy ay nagpapatupok,
Dahil binubusabos
Ng bayang nagdarahop.

 

the full original poem can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/joi-barrios/lason-para-kay-kristel-tejada/10151366016198441

 

 

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Sumpa (Bane)

29 Tuesday Jan 2013

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agility, bird, curse, Filipino translation, fragility, horse, poem

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Lascaux cave painting

 

~ Wendy Videlock (translated from English)

 

Hitik sa lakas at kalyado

ng pagkatalusaling

 

Ang thoroughbred

at ang hummingbird

at lahat ng mga bagay

na may sumpang

kaliksian.

 

original poem: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/245144

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Consecration ~by Susan Stewart

30 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Chicago, city, Filipino translation, Poetry, Susan Stewart, Tagalog translation, urban poetry, woman

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Pag-aalay (hango)

Ni Susan Stewart

 

Ngunit isang gabi, isang babae

ang naligaw nang nahagip siya

ng dumaraang alon

 

 

ng mga naglalakad at napatingala

sa malayang hungkag

na parihaba

 

 

na ngayo’y nakabitin

sa mga gilid

sa pagitan ng winalis na putik at langit

 

Consecration (excerpt)

By Susan Stewart

 

But one evening a woman                           

loses her way as she’s  

swept into a passing wave

 

 

of commuters and she                  

looks up toward the perfectly  

empty rectangle

 

 

now hanging between

the rutted mud and the sky.  

There along the sides 

 

To read the entire original poem: 

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/24662

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