an bulan han disyembre in puno hin kalipayan
ini makikit-an labi na ha bayhon han kabataan
kay an bulan han disyembre iginahin han ngatanan
panahon hin pagsalin-urog kanan Ginoo naton natawhan
an ilihan
sigun han mga susumaton
usa nga nga lugar nga engkantado
sanglit angay tagan hin respeto
(this is my first time to write a waray-waray poem or siday. So pls I would appreciate some comments to improve the way I deliver it. I just would like to acknowledge Mr.John Docena Simborios, your poetry triggered me to explore my own dialect. Thanks! Here it goes…)
Kamingaw
Nahanoy gadla, ngadi, ngadto, an akon balati-an
nawawara, nawawaug, hadton karadtuan.
Nagulanhit nga nasangpit hadton imo ngaran:
hahain ka, kay-ano ba nga waray ka han aton higdaan?
Being divorced from my favorite pastime which is news eaves-dropping brings such nostalgia to my searching mind. Hence, I thought of scanning the archives of our bookshelves in our boarding house. It was the 23rd August 2008 issue of the Inquirer that I saw a man in white face down in a tarmac. It was [...]
The 23 fellows for the 5th Lamiraw Creative Writing Workshop slated on November 5-7, 2008 at TTMIST, Calbayog City, Samar were named by Phil Harold Mercurio, the Lamiraw project coordinator.
Paglalakaton ko ini nga dalan
tipahirayo ha imo
Pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 647, declaring the month of October as the National Statistics Month, the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), Regional Office 8, will sponsor a Siday contest, which will be aired daily over the DYVL Aksyon Radyo, Tacloban City, starting October 6 this year, every 7:30 A.M.
Biniling ko ikaw hadto hasta yana man
nganhi pasingadto tinuroy an im’ im-im.
An matad-an ka akon kinahanglan
hinin kasingkasing ha im’ namimingawan.
Poet Andrea Sagaoinit, whom others consider as the “Iroy ha Pagsurat han Kinaiyahan,” approaches education with reverence. Her literary craft seldom, if not always, brings to mind the magnitude and value of pursuing studies, be that formal or informal. In spite of losing the main theme of her poetry in Waray, Andring – as she [...]