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sonito 211

211th sonnet added to Malagilion: Soniton Pangasinan.

sonito 211


News Item: Four storms—“Unding,” “Violeta,” “Winnie” and “Yoyong”—had just swept through the country, towns were hit by flash floods, mud, rocks and thousands of fallen trees that cascaded down the mountains, sweeping away whole villages, leaving more than a thousand dead, hundreds of thousands homeless.

maruksa'y paniring na dageyem
sakbay ton imbasig so panget to

akialioedoeran ed dagem
ira'y kakieoan tan kaabungan

no nampalikas la'y Makauley
natebag so abung a palandey

tan onkioas so aping na dalin
ed iterter na lua'y inkapalsa

ag narengel na desiang o duknal
so tagleey tan nangis na too

ag iya manduaruoan ombales
ed saray laoanan ya pinalsa

no anto so ginaoa ra'd bekta
oala so kaampar to ya karma
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At 6:21 AM, Blogger aa said...

Naunahan mo ko Ka Sonny. Exactly my train of thought. :)

 
At 8:21 AM, Blogger Sonny said...

AA, but of course you can have your own version too :)

 

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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