standpoint
PERSPECTIVE.OPINION.STRUGGLE. in lexis...
About Me
- Onick Roxas (Ronoriendo Roxas y Mañabo)
- Too many written poems, short stories, essays, op-eds and columns... Someday, somehow; I'll find the way to organize, collect and post them in this blog... Thanks be to God and I'd became a campus journalist, member of a collegiate official student publication (VOICE), College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) guilder and an activist... I learned not to write only for myself but for the masses...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Mapanghamong tugon - para sa mga nagmamaastang manunulat
Tutugon ako sa pamamagitan ng isang tula
na sa aki'y mga patutsada "nila",
sa mga akdang 'di kapatol-patol,
sa mga manunulat (?)... (?)
na tingin sa lahat ng mga mambabasa'y
inosesente, walang muwang at pulpol.
Itong yaring tugon ay 'di patol kundi isang pagtuturo,
pagmumulat dahil sila'y paurong,
mga tuta't alipin nitong panahong mapanghamon.
Umaasa ako mula sa pagkakaidlip sila'y babangon
sapagkat ang tuta hindi alam na siya'y tuta
at ang uring alipin dapat tumindig at makibaka.
Una, bilang "manunulat" tanggapin ang puna
dahil sa aking tula malamang sila'y imbiyerna.
Ngunit hindi uunlad ang talento
kung ikukulong ang sarili sa isang kahon
sapagkat ito'y magdudulot ng isang multong
nakapanghihilakbot gaya ng kanilang talento na tila'y ugong!
Ikalawa, alamin na malinaw sa sarili ang nais ipabasa
siguraduhing saklaw sa isyu at argumento ang akda.
Magsiyasat ng maigi bago gumawa ng anumang lathala
kung ito'y hindi ginawa, mag-ingat sa pananalita
baka matuklasan ng mambabasa kayo'y tanga
tandaan ang 'di nagsiyasat, 'wag sumatsat!
Ikatlo, tiyaking akda'y maiintindihan ng mga mambabasa
'wag umasa na ito'y matatamasa kung baluktot
ang pagsasaletra ng diwa't bumabali ng pluma.
Tiyakin din na hindi nagbubulalas sa hangin
dahil kahit gaano man kaganda ng nagawang akda
baliw pa rin ang labas ninyo sa madla kung ito'y di naunawa.
Ikaapat, alamin ang kahulugan ng "manunulat"
tandaan ito'y sakripisyo at hindi benipisyo,
hindi lamang makapagsulat kundi makapagmulat.
Iwasan ipagmalaki na kayo'y magaling sumulat
sapagkat talento at kaisipan ay salat
kung sa uri ng lipunan ay hindi mulat.
Ikalima, itaas ang antas ng pagiging mapanuri
at dito matutukoy kung sino ang dapat paglingkuran.
Ang mapang-api o ang naaapi?
Bilang manunulat, ikaw ba'y mananatili sa gitna?
Taga-tanod pa man din ng karapatn ang taguri
at inaasahang boses ng mga pinutulan ng dila't naging pipi.
Mga sinaysay ay pahapyaw pa lamang ng mga dapat malaman
ng isang manunulat na handang magsakripisyo para sa pinaglilingkuran.
Sa mga manunulat, pag-aralan muli ang ating akda
at sa susunod sana ako'y mabigyan ng tuwa
dahil nasilaban ang apoy ng kanilang pang-unawa.
Sa ating mga mambabasa'y ibigay ang sapat at dapat;
ikumpas ang pluma ng paninindigan at pagmumulat!
mula sa onickroxas.multiply.com
isinulat bilang tugon sa mga binobrodkast ng mga manunulat ng isang iskul administrasyon ☺
Thursday, April 21, 2011
alay lakad... alay para kanino?
(21 April 2011- Maundy Thursday Alay Lakad) If this sea of humanity seen in the streets will step their feet for genuine change, will collectively act for the common good, a better Philippines will rise... kaso ilang campus journalists pa lang(which is wala pa sa 1/8 nung mga nag-alay lakad...) noong June 30, 2006 CEGP NDA na nagpunta sa mendiola upang magdasal at mag-alay ng bulaklak ay agaran at marahas nang itinaboy ng kapulisan (dun pa lang umalma na ang gobyerno). Paano na kaya ang gagawin ng nabubulok at naghaharing sistema sampu ng kapulisan kung yung mga nag-alay lakad kagabi at kaninang madaling araw ay hindi sa Antipolo nagpunta kundi sa Mendiola? -suriin natin, para kanino tayo dapat mag-alay?
Maybe I'd written these due to TV exposure - Jose Rizal film aired in the Lenten Season Special of GMA 7 and my exposure to the tyranny being brought by the present heads governing my nation, no difference with the Spanish regime (krus o espada) which once hit the Philippines.
I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess... but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side — mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die. - J.P.Rizal
Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest! - J.P.Rizal
If all those who walked in the streets donated a peso in the Catholic church, it is assured that the church profited hundred times compared to a worker like me and more than a hundred times to those street sweepers cleaning the participants' trash last night. Granting that they walked for their beliefs, I hope that it do really cleansed their souls... I'm not being antagonistic in their tradition, a tradition from our previous colonizers which was used to fool our forefathers for Spain's pleasure, but just a hoping person that someday, they will not only walk for their own salvation but for the salvation of the nation against tyranny, poverty and unjustice. Wishing that they will not only be out there sweating due to extensive travel from different provinces just to offer flowers and money for the idolized wooden woman in the cathedral but someday, somehow, they will also be out there sweating and thirsty for a true free Philippines.
If all those who walked in the streets donated a peso in the Catholic church, it is assured that the church profited hundred times compared to a worker like me and more than a hundred times to those street sweepers cleaning the participants' trash last night. Granting that they walked for their beliefs, I hope that it do really cleansed their souls... I'm not being antagonistic in their tradition, a tradition from our previous colonizers which was used to fool our forefathers for Spain's pleasure, but just a hoping person that someday, they will not only walk for their own salvation but for the salvation of the nation against tyranny, poverty and unjustice. Wishing that they will not only be out there sweating due to extensive travel from different provinces just to offer flowers and money for the idolized wooden woman in the cathedral but someday, somehow, they will also be out there sweating and thirsty for a true free Philippines.
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