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| Ahiboge (Rice transplanting). This picture was taken during a rice transplanting season in Mompolia, Hingyon, Ifugao. |
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(The following collection of haikus is among those I read in the Panagbenga Poetry Reading 2014 as part of UP Baguio's Rambak Sining)
Haikun di Page
(Haikus of the Rice Plant)
Nunkapolyawan
Nadan apayo-payo
Pangidadaan
Page’n nitamol
Langtana ya immapngah
Algo’n dimmamu
Dongol di wahwah
Tiptipak di hinopnak
Te mib’gey page
Page’n pinumngol
Humaping ya bumuhbuh
Ahi mabgahan
Tuling di buding
Hi payo’n dime’deleng
Angit di kidlo
Natong di page
Mamanmanuh’ di dibdib
Ahibotok mo
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| Ahibotok (Rice harvesting). This is a scene in one rice harvest season at the author's hometown, Mompolia, Hingyon, Ifugao) |
Haikus of the Rice Plant
(Author's translation of Haikun di Page)
Cleared up
Are the fields from weeds
Making them ready
Soaked rice panicles
Sprouted and became verdant
Meeting the sun
The sound of washing
Seedlings being bashed
For it’s time to plant
Rice plant growing to fist size
Growing shoots then producing blossoms
Before the grain swells
The noise of the maya
Over the field that turned red
Daring the scarecrow
The fields ripened
Aroma of roasted chicken
For harvest time is here
