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Wednesday, March 27, 2002
I'll not be on-line starting tomorrow until the end of the month in observance of the Holy Week. That will be four days without blog :-p I am half-geek after all!

In the News: The physics of classical poetry
A superficial knowledge of the Greek language - alpha particles, beta decay, gamma rays and so on all the way to Omega Centauri - is essential for any scientist. But Ricardo Mansilla, a mathematician at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has taken a much deeper interest in this ancient language. Working with Edward Bush, a classicist, Mansilla has used methods from statistical physics to analyse the difference between classical Greek and Latin poetry (arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203135). Mansilla and Bush hope that their techniques may be able to shed new light on unanswered questions about two of the most famous poems of all time - the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2002
STHS

hunyo 1983
premieron aguew ed pinablin eskuwelaan
ambasa so dikan dadakatan
ag niarawi say maestran manantandag
ed sikamin manbabagot na dikan ansasabot
say matak balet wala ed saray andirit
ya maniktikyab a singa manpapanaring
na antokaman ya unsabi

limmabas iray bulan
ritwal la so tepet ya "St. Thomas?"
tan say ebat ya "Amen"
no umpisa lay klase
ag met napalna so kumpisal kada biernes
no iner insulat la ed melag ya papel
so listaan na kasalanan
tan saray dasal ya MANISIA AK
AMA MI, tan AVE MARIA
maong labat agi ta aliwa'd salitan Latin

no oras na reses
amungkog kami la
diman ed beneg na eskuwelaan
kulaan daray managlako na kakanen:
kiniler, sago, inalambong ya ponti
dinekdekan o giniling ya kahoy
diman ka met makanengneng
na mansasanking, mantatatsing
tan manbubuntayog
no maminsan balet aliwan mabetbet
wala so ponitian

dia ed klase
bida ka no maong so impan-lupam
bida ka no maong so impan-ulom
bida ka no maong kan manlastog
bida ka met no dakel so karga na bulsam
lalo kan bida no kabusol ka na maestra
o palanang ka ed opisina na prinsipal

junior-senior prom
say kwanda sikatoya so sankaliketan
ed bilay na hayskul
para ed siak tila labat itan
tan tetetelen ko imay lasin maestro
ya angibagay man-barong kami no JS Prom
singa kami laingen impasak ed yurungan
makakaibeg ed saray kaklasin
akasulong na amerikana
kinapalan la so lupa makasayaw labat
ed paboriton sonata

say leksiyon:
no maminsan aliwan maong
so onor-onor ed matatak-ken

makapanangnangis man
o makapalek so adalan ed dakulap mo
sakey ak ya angaro ed sika
ag makalingwan ed saray aral tan bangat mo
no natandagan la so arapan mo
no nanunutan la so ngaran mo
agko naiwasan ya aga mangansiyon
o mantareren na:

"by the way side we thee behold
thy citadel of learning pure...
o hear thy sway Santo Tomas High..."

Nexus: Ang Aming Katha. Our Words. Our Works -- another Filipino literary ezine.
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Monday, March 25, 2002
Added a free web counter on the index page. I just want to have some idea how many hits my site is getting in a month or so. Counter status: stealth mode. *wink!*
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Saturday, March 23, 2002
Yeah, I know, I know. I'm lagging behind. I still don't have my own dotcom ... dotPH or something. I'll get one. Promise.

I discovered this review this site link while browsing the Geocities Member Pages. I kinda figure out how it works on my page, however, you must have a Yahoo! email account to review & rate my site. Geocities members, don't get any ideas! (hehehe)
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Friday, March 22, 2002
I revisited Coolstop and was kinda surprised to find my site included in the friends of coolstop. Thanks Joe Jenett!

In the News: Website shock at the Poetry Societry
Domain name of a popular British Poetry site (www.poetrysoc.com) lapsed. Poetry Society director Christina Patterson said the society was rushing out a new site at www.poetrysociety.org.uk.
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Thursday, March 21, 2002
A school mate (in Santo Tomas High School (STHS), Mangaldan, Pangasinan) stumbled into my site! Yup, I remember the girl.

On the other hand, Dalityapi Unpoemed has been reviewed and chosen to bear the 2002-2003 Golden Web Award. Hehehe... for the moment, it feels good!

In the News: Carl Phillips Wins Poetry Award
Carl Phillips, acclaimed for his poems with sparse verse and deeply personal subject matter, has won the 2002 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book "The Tether."

Hope From 'Poet of the People'
Ahmed Fouad Negm has been a house servant, a postal worker, a laborer in a British army camp, even a felon. And more than three decades ago, at the age of 40, he discovered his calling. Ever since, he has conveyed the consciousness of his beloved Egypt through his poetry.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2002
In the News: French writer Alexandre Dumas's ashes to go to Pantheon: Chirac
The ashes of Alexandre Dumas, the 19th century author of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Man in the Iron Mask", are to be transferred to the Pantheon in Paris, President Jacques Chirac said.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2002
for us, who do not care
(after Maya Angelou)

be me urchin
seek me shanty in Payatas
or under the LRT

bury me in tattered rugs
and paper blankets at night
while i dream me home
a family to call my own

swim me river defiled by men
whose soul is darker
than the waters of Pasig river

cross me streets of Manila
and breath me air thick
with smoke belched from buses
trucks and jeepneys

collect me garbage
high as a mountain
worst than Augen stables
in rainy days

walk me malls in broad daylight
where courtesans trade their bodies
for six-pence in a day

o give me
what future?
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Monday, March 18, 2002
to a rebel poet

you penned a bitter life
the paper bled and burned with your blood
i drained the tears

in your empty eyes
you dreamt of better days
while fighting underground

i heard the muses cried
when you died a hundred deaths
when bullets rained your body

and the last drop
of your blood stained the ground
with your last poem

Feature: Poet of place, poet of Cebu by Alfred A. Yuson (from The Philippine STAR 03/18/2002)

In the News: Interpreter Publishes Translation of Lee Sang's Poetry
Washington DC-based interpreter Kim Myeong-hui has published an English translated version of "Crow's Eye View," a collection of poems and essays by legendary poet Lee Sang.
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Saturday, March 16, 2002
A tagalog or Pilipino version / translation of my Pangasinan poem entitled Sika.

ikaw
ikaw ang katinuan
at kasamaan ng pag-iisip ko
ikaw ang luha
saya at lungkot ng aking mga mata
ikaw ang bulong
ingay at katahimikan ng aking pandinig
ikaw ang Gumamela Celis
samyo ng bulaklak sa gabi at umaga

ikaw ang hininga
tamis at pait ng aking mga labi
ikaw ang tula
buhay at kamatayan ng aking pagkamakata
ikaw ang haplos
init at lamig ng aking palad
ikaw ang pag-ibig
tibok ng puso sa aking dibdib

ikaw ang langit at lupa
ikaw ang kamunduhan
mundo ng aking pinagmulan
ikaw ang bilang
minuto ng bawat oras
araw ng buwan sa mga lumilipas na taon

ikaw
ikaw ang Urduja
ng luma at bagong Pangasinan
ikaw ay ako
ako ay ikaw rin
nilikhang pinag-isa
anino at laman ng Diyos
na hindi maiguhit ang mukha
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Thursday, March 14, 2002
Yet another poem in my native tongue.

Catherine

no akaalaguey ni imay kiew
ed iskuwelaan na Malabago
nayarin mabakat ni imay insulat
kon ngaran mo tan ngaran ko
tanda ya aminsan et
sakey kan daguem
ya dim-malan ed bilay ko

natandaan mo ni kasi imay garden
ya sasalug-salugen ta
kada kabwasan?
no anto so panangarok
ed saraman ya tanaman
untan met so panangaro'd sika
panangaron agko nibaga
no siak so kaarap mo la

liket kon baleg no
say limam et naembenan
no sika la so katungtong o
kagalaw na erelan

dim-malan iray aguew
tan nansumpal tayo
ed saman ya iskuwelaan
nan-ermenan ko so balitan
wala kala kono ed Amerika
O Catherine! sakey kan daguem
ya dim-malan ed bilay ko
balet angitilak ka na alaala
ya agko nalingwanan

no maminsan pangkelawan ko
bengatlan nabitla so ngaran mo
siguro tanda na pagkamakatak
nen kalabyan labat binangunan
so kugkugip pian nisulat
iyan tula

In the News: Cronin, McCracken win PEN awards
Justin Cronin, author of the short story collection ''Mary and O'Neil'' (Dial Press), has won the 2002 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction...

US Fulbright scholarship application open
THE Philippine American Educational Foundation (PAEF) is now accepting application for the prestigious Fulbright scholarship grants in the United States. The awards are for both degree (Master's and Ph.D.) and non-degree (doctoral enrichment and dissertation research) studies for 20032004. All fields are eligible except engineering, medicine and related fields, applied mathematics and applied sciences.

Nexus: Burning Word -- a literary magazine and conflux. A collection of poetry and prose updated daily. 2002 SXSW Awards winner for the Content/E-zine category.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2002
PDF version of Makata (Jan-Mar 2002 issues) is now available for download.

In the News: Posthumous book award for British author W.G. Sebald's 'Austerliz' wins top honor for fiction by National Book Critics Circle.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2002
First installations of the Sapphic Verses posted in the Unpoemed section. The poem(s) are still a work in progress and I surely am going to do some revisions before I am going to publish the final version in print.

In the News: Richest book prize announces finalists
The shortlist for the world's largest literary prize, worth 100,000 euros (£61,450), has been announced.

Poetry playing cards launched
A pack of playing cards with new poetry by Doris Lessing and others on the back is about to be launched.
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Monday, March 11, 2002
I started writing the Sapphic Verses last night. I had this in mind after reading the short poems of Sappho.

Sapphic Verses will be a collection of short poems, fragments, and experimental verses as well. Here's an example:

TELL ME
what is love's
middle name?

Feature: Eman as koan by Alfred A. Yuson (from The Philippine STAR 03/11/2002)
The Office of Research and Publications (ORP) of the Ateneo de Manila University has reissued Eman’s Salvaged Poems, edited by his brother Jose F. Lacaba.
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Saturday, March 09, 2002
I've created the website for the Voice of our Youth in just one and a half day or so (wink!). No fancy effects though. Simply plain, static and simple site.

Voice of our Youth is an impromptu speaking contest open to Filipino high school students from public and private schools nationwide. It seeks to develop the students' ability to form their point of view on a particular topic within a limited preparation time and to powerfully convey their message to an audience through the effective use of plain English. It is intended to inspire the Filipino youth to attain world-class proficiency in English communication, in furtherance of universal understanding and cooperation.

Owen Dunford, a contributing poet of the Makata, has just launched The Immediate Life which will serve as a web-based journal of poetry and prose appearing this April 2002. Contributions for its maiden issue are welcome.
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Friday, March 08, 2002
Revisited Arcanum Cafe and found a couple of remnants of my first web site Poesie d'Orient in their awards section. Yup! I used to give those awards to some poetry or literary sites that are worth visiting.
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Thursday, March 07, 2002
I modified the cover page and the Makata section to add some typographic effect and visual abruptness on the background image. So far, the result is good.

in the promised land

the god of war assume his fitted place
between the stalwart soldiers
and muslim braves
he is neither Greek nor Roman god
but a dot, a space, a distance
that will punctuate the course
of our history

in the foughten fields are days
of thunder and sleepless nights
each morrow seems to be the last
to a comrade or a foe

meanwhile,
we anticipate the news
separating the grains from the heap
of sensualized journalism
and just this morning
while some Americans woo
our countrymen down south
an earthquake shook the land

the One has declared his presence
but still we do not understand the signs
not that they are too profound to construe
we only read them with our eyes
not with our hearts and minds
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Wednesday, March 06, 2002
on the boardwalk

she mumbles about wildflowers
and days of her youth
on the boardwalk
the rain begins to fall
like tears not showers
and she thinks that
it is her destiny
it is God's reply
to a prayer a long time ago
it is unimportant now
she cannot hear or feel it
her mind is lost
in some unknown skies

Recycled News: Gutenberg Bible Goes Digital
Octavo will update their Web site with new images of the Gutenberg Bible as they become available staring this March 2002.
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Tuesday, March 05, 2002
I moved the Diurnal section of Dalityapi in my Tripod account after learning that Y!Geocities will no longer provide free FTP access starting April 2002. Well, there's the end of another free service. I'll keep my Geocities site though for sentimental reasons :-p

RSS version of this page is now available for syndication purposes. Click the RSS button at the bottom of this page to see what I mean. RSS (RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary) is an XML syndication spec. Read the RSS FAQ for more information on the format.

Recycled News: The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker, reviewed by Robert Fraser. (From The Spectator.)

Poetry Slam
Pathological as it seems, we tend to express reverence for our favorite writers by reshaping their work into something more like what they should have done.
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Monday, March 04, 2002
I attended a 2-day seminar (for free) at Heidelberg Philippines last March 1 & 2. My company sent me as one of the representatives despite the fact that it is far too unrelated to my job.

Anyways, I'm glad I participated in the said seminar. I acquired some basic knowledge and new skills about printing, cutting, folding, binding, etc. The only topic that I am familiar with is the Color Management in which I am already using / applying in web page design and in calibrating my computer screen and graphic softwares to get the ICC profile.

I didn't mind the European accent of the foreign speakers. I was not that interested in their lectures except for the two (out of 5) speakers who delivered their lectures quite eloquently. And yes, I kept on going back to the coffee table in-between lectures. (Yawns!)

No doubt that I was impressed with the modern printing machines exhibited in the showroom - the Polar cutter (manufactured in Poland), the GTO 52 (a 4-color printer that produces excellent prints), the computerized imagesetter, the so-called Delta Technology, and Heidelberg's Prosetter 52/74/102.

Are you still there?
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Friday, March 01, 2002
Makata Issue No.3 is now available online featuring the poetry of Shirley Cahayon, John Bryan, and Owen Dunford.

On the other hand, beginning April 2, 2002, Y!Geocities will no longer be offering Remote Loading or FTP as part of their free home page service. (Hmmm... I guess this means I can no longer use FTP via Blogger)

In the News: A change of heart lets China honor Pearl Buck
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A Tao (道) Sign

Le poèt de PangasinanSantiago 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 and recipient of the 1st ASNA Award (for Arts and Culture) during the first-ever Agew na Pangasinan and 430th Foundation Day of Pangasinan in 2010. He advocates for the development, preservation and the revival of Pangasinan as a literary language. He is currently an adjunct faculty member and a senior web developer at Emilio Aguinaldo College - Manila. » more


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