NALPAY NA NAMNAMA BY

LEONA FLORENTINO
Posted on  January 24, 2014 by helpinghandforstudents under Philippine Literature
Nalpay na namnama

by Leona Florentino (Ilocano Version)

Atoy ngatan ti ayat a kunada.

Aldaw rabii pampanunuten ka.
Summangpet ka, lubong ko nga natalna.
Ket biag gummulon sa dinakita ka.

Ditoy dalan ko no sikan ti magna,

Sirsirpatangkan nga awan labas na.
Matmatak imnas mo awan kapada na,
Diak ngarud mapukaw ti pinagduadua,

Pinagduadua no sika ket agmaymaysa

Wen no ti pusom addan nakaala.
Toy manong mo, piman nga agsagaba
No awan kanton, malpay tay namnama.

Namnama ta ti pusom iyawat mo;

Ta ti diro ni ayat danggayantanto;
Ta ti rabii sika kumat’ raniag ko,
Kas naslag a bulan sadiay ngato.

Dayta pintas mo a dardaripdepek.

Tungal rabii no innak iredep
Agtalnan toy nakem kentoy utek,
Ta sikan ti kaduak diay tagtaginep.

No nairedep, sam-it nannanamek.

Nagragsak ta a dua diay tagtaginep.
Ngem no makariing, pa-it balbalunek
Ta nalpas manen diay dardaripdepek.

Ket gapu ti nalaus nga ayat ko

Pinamuspusak inyapan ka diay ungto
Ta adaddiay ti maysa nga kayo
Inukit ko nagan mo nga sinanpuso.

Adu a tawenen ti nabilangko.

Dumteng manen nalammiis a tiempo
Awan man lang asi nga mauray ko,
Ta ti ibagbagam puro sentimiento.

Nu tay sika kenyak makagura,

Yeb-ebkas toy pusok ket sika latta.
Nalabit ti ayat ket kastoy ngata;
Pintas mo umunay a liwliwa.

Amin a pinagdungngo impakitak.

Sipupudnuak ta diak pay naglibak
Nagbabaan toy gasat no siak ti agayat
Ta apay madinak man lang maayat.

Gasat nadanunen ti pannakapaay,

Sinaom a dinak a mauray.
Naut-ot launay ti inka impaay.
Naupay a ayat, kas sabong a nalaylay.

Gayagayek a ipalpalawag
Sika ti kayat ko a pagtungpalk
Ngem makitak met a sibabatad,
Ni pay ken liday ti kalak-amak.

Ket aniakad payso ti ur-urayek?

Malaksid a ni rigat ti lak-amek!
 Gapu piman ti ayat ko ken pateg,
Ta madim pay rinekna ken dinengngeg.

Yantangay siak ket linipatnakon,

Liday ti yas-asog toy barungkonko.
Nuray agsagabaak nga agnanayon,
Nalpay a namnama aklunekon.

Blasted Hopes (Nalpay A Namnama)

English Version

What gladness and what joy

are endowed to one who is loved

for truly there is one to share

all his sufferings and his pain.

My fate is dim, my stars so low

perhaps nothing to it can compare,

for truly I do not doubt

for presently I suffer so.

For even I did love,

 the beauty whom I desired

never do I fully realize

that I am worthy of her.

Shall I curse the hour

when first I saw the light of day

would it not have been better a thousand times

I had died when I was born.

Would I want to explain

but my tongue remains powerless

for now do I clearly see

to be spurned is my lot.

But would it be my greatest joy

to know that it is you I love,

for to you do I vow and a promise I make

it’s you alone for whom I would lay my life.
Tag: The Rural Maid by Fernando
Maramag

The Scandal Never Died

Tag: The Rural Maid by Fernando
Maramag
The Scandal Never Died
Angela Manalang-Gloria
Revolt From Hymen
Angela Manalang-Gloria
O to be free at last, to sleep at last
As infants sleep within the womb of rest!

To stir and stirring find no blackness vast

With passion weighted down upon the breast,

To turn the face this way and that and feel

No kisses festering on it like sores,

To be alone at last, broken the seal

That marks the flesh no better than a whore’s!

Soledad
by Angela Manalang Gloria

It was a sacrilege, the neighbors cried,

The way she shattered every mullioned pane
To let a firebrand in. They tried in vain
To understand how one so carved from pride
And glassed in dream could have so flung aside
Her graven days, or why she dared profane
The bread and wine of life for some insane
Moment with him. The scandal never died.
But no one guessed that loveliness would claim
Her soul’s cathedral burned by his desires
Or that he left her aureoled in flame…
And seeing nothing but her blackened spires,
The town condemned this girl who loved too well
and found her heaven in the depths of hell.
I rather like it when women poets run circles around their male peers.  Feminist
poetry precedes the term feminism.  It doesn’t mean that Manalang-Gloria was
any less controversial in her day for shedding light on uncomfortable truths of
unmerited male power.  No poet has voiced the anger of martial rape so
purposefully as Manalang-Gloria.

It does not appear that either of these poem were based on her own experience,
but are rather the voice of women of her generation.    She wrote lovingly about
her own husband, who was killed by Japanese soldiers, leaving her to raise their
three children alone.  It’s no surprise she was a successful businesswoman, but
her poetry found little acceptance in the male dominated publishing world.

Contrast Manalang-Gloria unvarnished poetry on the subject of sex with

Maramag? Maramag was the more commercially successful Phillipino poet but
Manalang-Gloria’s words stand the test of time in my opinion with a fresher
voice of honesty.  Which poem do you think will still being read in 100 years? 
In 200 years?   Let’s hope both but I would put my money on Manalang-Gloria.

The Rural Maid

By Fernando M. Maramag

Thy glance, sweet maid, when first we met,

Had left a heart that aches for thee,
I feel the pain of fond regret—
Thy heart, perchance, is not for me.

We parted: though we met no more,

My dreams are dreams of thee, fair maid;
I think of thee, my thoughts implore
The hours my lips on thine are laid.
Forgive these words that love impart,
And pleading, bare the poet’s breast;
And if a rose with thorns thou art,
Yet on my breast that rose may rest.

I know not what to name thy charms,

Thou art half human, half divine;
And if I could hold thee in my arms,
I know both heaven and earth were mine
Posted onJuly 10, 2019CategoriesAngela Manalang-Gloria, Fernando MaramagTagsIt was a
sacrilege the neighbors cried, O to be free at last to sleep at last, Revolt From Hymen by Angela
Manalang-Gloria, Soledad by Angela Manalang-Gloria, The Rural Maid by Fernando
Maramag, Thy glance sweet maid when first we met
Angela Manalang-Gloria
Revolt From Hymen
Angela Manalang-Gloria
O to be free at last, to sleep at last
As infants sleep within the womb of rest!

To stir and stirring find no blackness vast

With passion weighted down upon the breast,

To turn the face this way and that and feel

No kisses festering on it like sores,

To be alone at last, broken the seal

That marks the flesh no better than a whore’s!

Soledad
by Angela Manalang Gloria

It was a sacrilege, the neighbors cried,

The way she shattered every mullioned pane
To let a firebrand in. They tried in vain
To understand how one so carved from pride
And glassed in dream could have so flung aside
Her graven days, or why she dared profane
The bread and wine of life for some insane
Moment with him. The scandal never died.
But no one guessed that loveliness would claim
Her soul’s cathedral burned by his desires
Or that he left her aureoled in flame…
And seeing nothing but her blackened spires,
The town condemned this girl who loved too well
and found her heaven in the depths of hell.
I rather like it when women poets run circles around their male peers.  Feminist
poetry precedes the term feminism.  It doesn’t mean that Manalang-Gloria was
any less controversial in her day for shedding light on uncomfortable truths of
unmerited male power.  No poet has voiced the anger of martial rape so
purposefully as Manalang-Gloria.

It does not appear that either of these poem were based on her own experience,
but are rather the voice of women of her generation.    She wrote lovingly about
her own husband, who was killed by Japanese soldiers, leaving her to raise their
three children alone.  It’s no surprise she was a successful businesswoman, but
her poetry found little acceptance in the male dominated publishing world.

Contrast Manalang-Gloria unvarnished poetry on the subject of sex with

Maramag? Maramag was the more commercially successful Phillipino poet but
Manalang-Gloria’s words stand the test of time in my opinion with a fresher
voice of honesty.  Which poem do you think will still being read in 100 years? 
In 200 years?   Let’s hope both but I would put my money on Manalang-Gloria.

The Rural Maid

By Fernando M. Maramag

Thy glance, sweet maid, when first we met,

Had left a heart that aches for thee,
I feel the pain of fond regret—
Thy heart, perchance, is not for me.

We parted: though we met no more,

My dreams are dreams of thee, fair maid;
I think of thee, my thoughts implore
The hours my lips on thine are laid.
Forgive these words that love impart,
And pleading, bare the poet’s breast;
And if a rose with thorns thou art,
Yet on my breast that rose may rest.

I know not what to name thy charms,

Thou art half human, half divine;
And if I could hold thee in my arms,
I know both heaven and earth were mine
Posted onJuly 10, 2019CategoriesAngela Manalang-Gloria, Fernando MaramagTagsIt was a
sacrilege the neighbors cried, O to be free at last to sleep at last, Revolt From Hymen by Angela
Manalang-Gloria, Soledad by Angela Manalang-Gloria, The Rural Maid by Fernando
Maramag, Thy glance sweet maid when first we met

Summary Of Taccad Cammayo's People Of

Consequence
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I have known once a smart rich man who has started from rugs; he had sleepless nights
and hard days until he became such great man many adored. At the very moment of
victory, he loses his time, his life and his happiness. Now, the critic is asking you, is
there true happiness in wealth and high rank in the society? Can someone so great in
one’s career and dream fall so bad in life? Ines Taccad Cammayo’s piece entitled People
of Consequence reflects the people’s determination and hard work to attain the high
position in the society. Cammayo’s works have been published by different known
publication like the Philippines Free Press, Asia-Philippines Leader and more. Her work
“People of Consequence” won First prize for Don Carlos Palanca Memorial…show more
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This paper will deal mostly on the analysis of the text’s characters, its setting and its
conflict which lead to how the story and each character reacted in every situation
encountered. In the People of Consequence, Cammayo determines that striving hard is
necessary but striving too much to be accepted in a high social status can sometimes lead
to unhappiness and less appreciation of the simple things around. The main theme of
the story is enjoying and valuing every moment of living and to never forget the simple
things. In the text, both Meding and Camus became people of consequence or people of
value and significance in the society. From just being a houseboy for a German landlord
and a maid for the town mayor’s family, they rise up and become powerful. Camus
worked so hard not only as a chicken raiser, to going into fishing, truly a determined and
smart in what he does. Meding, Camus’ wife does crochets, peddles carabao milk,
occasional fruits from the backyard, her hard work is twice as much as the effort of
Camus. These actions show how much they value their work, how much want to be in
the social status they want to be that they fail to see how much they have changed and
how they have disregarded the things around worth appreciating.
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