BINARID PASIG tan arum ni ran anlong

Saraya iramay anlong kon analo'd mikaduan paliagan na anlong a Pangasinan ed panamegley na Komision ed Dilan Filipino nen 2007. Naipalapag ed Makata: An online journal of Philippine & International contemporary poetry ed August 2008 ya paway to.

GALAD TAKEL, ARO!

Gala aro ed takel, gala!
dakel so kiew ya atatagey tan mabuná
wala ray ay-ayep melag tan baleg
wala soy maanos tan masibeg.

Diad silong na bulawen odino akasya
nayarin mampainawa
onirong ed berden diká
nayari met ya ondokol tan dua.

Makangngel tay úni na saray manok
maliket ya mangakansiyon ed toktok
naangob say balinget ed biek ya bangkag
saray dosas na ilang-ilang ya nayayagyág.

Say alog masanting met ya laen
asingger labat ya akaren
sali anggad poeg isawsaw
ed danum ya malinlinew.

Gala aro ed takel, gala!
aleg kan mandurua!
agta labat onanges ya tariwan dagem
mankaiba ta ni ya sangngarem!

NEN ABALANG SI LAKI PILO

Musikero si Lakik Pilon mantaoy sitenta
lanang ya trumpet so bembenda
lapud ta satan so anapanda
sipor nen balolaki nira.

Diad panmumusikoda
apan-aral daray ilalakda
amay pangulowan maestra
abogado may mikadua.

Balet agnira timmonda
ed panmumusikoda
ta sikaray tatawaganda
ya lawas ed pon-ponsia.

Sikaton nen abalang ira
say Barrio Fiesta
abiyernes santoy luplupara
ta asumpal lay ligliwa.

Ag makaogip say kapitan ed kanonotto
no iner ya narumog si Laki Pilo
ta anggano si Bae Gorian asawa
mangkelaw ta may katdolda anggapola.

Ta manaya wad biek ya barrio
say abalang ya si Lakik Pilo
akiponsia ed kaaro ton si Pedro
ya nankumbidad binyag na anak to.

Nen abalitan wadman si Laki Pilo
nanpalitson si Laki Tano
wala ray papaitan, pochero
wala met soy puto tan bitso-bitso.

Diad ngarem ya pansempetda
dakel so totoon maliket ya akibegta
bangta angan iray bagisen, natake rad poso
akis tan orangal say nangngel ed barrio.

MANAGBAKAL

Nan-anito ed si Apolaki
angiter ya biskeg tan bayani
mansayaw ya tagam
ontakot saray kalaban
awit so sondan, buecang tan pana
say gangan na anacbanua
no onngayaw kayod arom ya baley
putiren iray olo na onaatey
ibagat ed si Ama-Kaoley
say Dios ya makaoley
saray adakep ya kabusol
gawaen ya aripuen.

KUBRADOR

“Nitan la ray pulis!”
say anglab nen Boris
batik ya immamot
ngalngalin naplag ed abot.

Nen akaalis la ra
akaimis ya nankubra
“Antoy numero yo, Nana Sibya?”
“Diyes tan siete, sarag to la.”

Inkorit tod papelito
say taya dan samplu
nanakar ya pigaran metro
nen asabian toy suki to.

“Agik, marakep ta nalmo taka?”
“Natan ya agew say suertem la”
“Atan lamet so imbagam”
“Agak balet analon pigan.”

Nantayay duamplu
ta anggapoy nagawaan to
kalabian ed pankakaotanda
apili may numero nen Linda.

Say liket nen Boris
ya singa atiris
awit toy panalo
initdan day balato.

Ontombok ya agew narelda
kabuasanto akapawayla
ngarem to nankubra
si Linda akatalaranla!

ISTORYA NA INKAARIPUEN

Oley nen Ama-Kaoley nen ugma
diad luyag na Caboloan
Pangasinan nadingel irad pabitla
tongtong, oliran tan awaran.

Nen Dios na Espanyol simmabi
abilang lay agew nen Apolaki
saray totoo nandasal ed simbaan
balet diad Pangasinan.

Gelew nen saray Tagalog nen Rizal
nanrebolusyon kontrad Espanyol
akibakal saray Amerikanon analo
Ingles nanibad imperyalismo.

Say ibabaga ran bansa, nanoley si Bathala
ta say Aniton Bakal aputir lay dila
saray anak to baing dan isalita
say dilan nianakan da.

Ag labat ira so nanpaaripuen
Lalahon, Kabunian, Gugurang,
Suku, Malyari, Tadaklan
bibitlaen day salita na nanbaknang!

NO SIKAY…

No sikay alumbayar ed dalem na dalin
siak lay manok ya mansalaysay ed sikan buagen

No lokton kan manoopot ya bolong na paguey
anuyawak lan mangan pian ipila kad kopapuey.

No sika et andirit ya maermen ya ontikyab tikyab
siak lay ugaw manerel ed sikan ipokok ed abaab.

No nganak kan masayaksak
lalongak lan oneyak-eyak.

No bulan kad ambilonget ya labi
siak lay kabuntatalan oniba ni.

No bulaklak kad tanaman masamiong say balingit
siak lay potiokan onsopsop ed dilom ya masamit.

No kolibangbang kan onsisimit onbabaleg
siak lay agew ya manpatubo manpabaleg

Balet no bii kan malimgas mabinta
laki ak ya onkaraw onkanad sika.

BINARID PASIG

Biin posoy maagum mauges
lipot nid asawan arin atapis
balangit ed olo andi gawad balitok
no onelek manalimpokapok

Abung tod gilig na baybay
matatakew nanolop nanabay
kakaaron matila masisiba
ed kwartan ag da met gawa.

Aliwan tonung say oley
ag onaaligwas soy baley
ta lalon oniirap saray doka
balet saray sanasawa maligsa.

Asingger metla so isungpal toya
ag onbayag nitan lay dusan duksa
tawen onlerem, onkimat, onbagio
ondelap, nanor, nalner may loko.

Say Bakal ya Kapilitan ya Ipanalo

Onbibilay la so salitan Pangasinan balet kaokolan ag labat seet tan kuli pian nagamoran so pilalek ya onbulaslas so kulturan abangonan.

Nen apalabas ya simba, agawa ed siudad na Dagupan so seminar ed ortograpiya na Pangasinan. Amuria diman ya manduruma so panaglitra na saray sumusulat ed dakel ya salita na salitan Pangasinan. Katon nepeg ya mangiletneg tan mangipalapag ya sakey ya balon ortograpiya na Pangasinan. Sayan tulagan et sakey labat ya melag a kupbang balet makana ed arawi nin baroy mamaarap na panangitandoro ed salitan Pangasinan bilang sakey ya salitan onpara’d Tagalog tan Inglis.

Say kipapasen na salitan Pangasinan tan arum nin salita ed Pilipinas et ag onaarawi ed saray salitan asingger lan onpatey. Panduruma labat say karakel na totoon Pangasinense ya onbabaleg balet uusaren da labat so salita da ed abung. Ag da lanang a narerengel ed radio odino ed telebision. Ag da nababasa ed saray libro ed eskwelaan. Ag nababasa ed diario, magasin tan arum nin palapagan. Narerengel labat no panaun na basingkawel no eleksion no labay na sakey a politikon onsingger ed poso na saray botante.

Antoy nagagawa? Narerengel ed radio tan telebision so Tagalog. Nababasa so Inglis tan Tagalog ed eskwelaan. Nababasa ed diario, magasin tan arum nin palapagan say Inglis tan Tagalog. Ed antikey ya salita, saray tubunbalo tan ugugaw natan ed Pangasinan, onbabaleg ira’d kulturan binayes, ed kulturan ibabaga ran panbansa. Say risulta, onbabaleg iran nalilinguanan day inkaPangasinan da. Ag labat ontan, onbabaleg iran ag da amtan ibabaing da lay kultura tan salita da. Naiyanak la’d poso tan isip da so tatawagen ya “inferiority complex” lapud “cultural conditioning” odino “social engineering.”

Nakokondision so kanonotan na sakey ya too ed abung, eskwelaan tan kaliberliber to nipaakar ed no antoy maung odino mauges, no antoy tua odino palso. Unong ed pamaakaran ya igaganggan na Konstitusyon, say salitan ibangat ed eskwelaan et Tagalog ya tatawagen day Filipino. Insugiri da labat ya saray “regional languages” et “auxiliary medium of instruction” odino katulong ya midium ed panbangat. Lapud saya, say salitan sarasarag ya isulat tan isalita na karaklan et Tagalog. Lapud saya, alukasan so kanonotan ag labat na saray Pangasinense pati arum nin baley ed kultura ya ituturo na Ibali ya ag nabori ya Tagalog. Katon, say pababalegen na atateng, lapud sayan aliwan katunungan ya pamaakaran et ugugaw tan tubunbalon maaro ed salitan sankaili, salitan mankokonwarin kayarian na amin ya Pilipino. Diad arum ya salita, ontatakken iran maung ya ombaley aliwan Pangasinense balet Tagalog.

Immabuloy saray atateng tayo ed sayan duksa ya pinolianan dan manpaaripuen ed Tagalog tan Inglis. Natan la so panaun ya pultoten so golong golong ya mantitikel ed inkaPangasinan tayo. Onggapo itan no aroen, aralen, bilayen so salita tayo. Et anto ni so kaokolan? Kaokolan ya mibakal ed kanonotan ya apasal ed katilaan. Kapilitan tayon ipanalo yan bakal para’d ontumbok ya polin mangitandoro ed nanlapuan da.


Naipalapag diad dalem na dasig "Somlang" Northern Watch 21-27 April 2008.

Letter of a poet to his nieces abroad*

You’re still young
wetter yet in bed
thoughts on games
and sweet candy

If you’ve grown up
read this please
hoping that you understand
Lakin Anoy’s speech

If not, it’s necessary
to translate it in English
Shakespeare’s tongue
the dominant voice there

You’re growing up
in a borrowed idiom
in tales and stories
whose heroes are strangers

Their nose not flat
white skinned
like sugar
hair that is blonde

Unlike Siogen
a legendary hunter
cooked in the sun
bathed in sea salt

And Apo Anno
named for a river
a mighty warrior
forest his playground

Ancestors they were
of the race you came from
blood flowing in your veins
had lived once in their hearts

Learn Pangasinan
sigh of your souls
its echo I could still hear
over mountains and fields

Whisper, laughter, shouts of yore
flown and kept by the wind
so that Caboloan’s progeny
could listen to Apolaki

Know, dig up your roots
you’ll stand up secure
do not emulate others
who had forgotten their baley.

* This is the translation of a Pangasinan poem published last month with the title “Sulat na umaanlong ed saray kaanakan to’d biektaew.”