Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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Sonnet 3 in Bisaya

This sonnet is written in "Bisaya", as we call it. It's a dialect in the Philippines. Actually Bisaya could mean other Visayan(Visayas)and Mindanaoan (Mindanao) dialects like Cebuano, Visayan, etc. But ordinarilly, we termed these similar dialects as Bisaya.

Sonnet 3

Mga panid nga nagdahum na
Nangutana kung muabot karon,
Dili mapugngan kining gugmaha
Bisan malisud mi paminawon.
Nahanaw man ning ulap sa adlaw
Niingon nalang usab unta ko
Kay nikalit ka nako naminaw
Unya kalit pud nilakaw didto.
Ayaw ingna ning luha mapugngan
Samtang nibiya ko, nibiya ka,
Kay di nako kaya ka likayan
Karon,ugma, masayod na unta
Ikaw akong himaya, tinuod,
Kining dughan ikaw lang ang sulod.

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