Parnasong Naghihingalo (Dying Poetry)
Where are the modern "Balagtas", "Shakespheare", and "Rizal"? As our society mature, shouldn't we have great poets and harmoneous poetry right about now? Don't tell me that best poets we could ever come up with in this generation are Andrew E., Snoop Doggy Dog and the Salbakuta. I would be ashamed living in our generation right now. What if the future generation would look back in our generation? I would be more grateful if our part of "history of writing" would burn to ashes or washed away by floods. In this way, the future generation would wonder what they might have missed than if they know that if this generation have not existed, they wouldn't really miss a thing at all.
One time, out of curiosity, I searched yahoo groups to see if there are poetry groups, Filipino poetry groups in particular. I saw two promising Filipino groups. The first one(I already forgot the name of the group) the group is already inactive for around months now (if not years) I searched the trails of emails they have left behind. If not emails containing viruses, the emails only include advertisements. The second group is named AwitKayumanggi. I joined in search of good Filipino poetry. I was discouraged that the group of Pilipino using the group is onto Haikus, seldom of them are tagalog, Most of them are in English.
I bet TV is one of the reasons why no one cares of poetry anymore. I could imagine, 50 to 100 years ago, adults would be coming home from work. Without TV, what could have been their pass time? Besides sex, I bet they would read novels, newspapers, and poetry. I bet they would also read stories to their children. And if there are no things left to read, I bet they would write stories or create poems themselves. Even the youth, I bet young men would compete for poetry writing contests and would court girls using poetry.
In the present however, adults would be coming home from work tired and sleepy. they would destress themselves by clicking on the remote, looking for the best show until they fall asleep (I would tell my sentiments about TV later in another blog). In short, we don't have time anymore to read and write for ourselves ("We don't give time" would be the better statement).
Poetry is dying by the day (I bet you're saying "so what?"). Well, I care. I just don't want to be a part of the generation that killed poetry. I'll continue to write my poetry even if no one anymore cares.
One time, out of curiosity, I searched yahoo groups to see if there are poetry groups, Filipino poetry groups in particular. I saw two promising Filipino groups. The first one(I already forgot the name of the group) the group is already inactive for around months now (if not years) I searched the trails of emails they have left behind. If not emails containing viruses, the emails only include advertisements. The second group is named AwitKayumanggi. I joined in search of good Filipino poetry. I was discouraged that the group of Pilipino using the group is onto Haikus, seldom of them are tagalog, Most of them are in English.
I bet TV is one of the reasons why no one cares of poetry anymore. I could imagine, 50 to 100 years ago, adults would be coming home from work. Without TV, what could have been their pass time? Besides sex, I bet they would read novels, newspapers, and poetry. I bet they would also read stories to their children. And if there are no things left to read, I bet they would write stories or create poems themselves. Even the youth, I bet young men would compete for poetry writing contests and would court girls using poetry.
In the present however, adults would be coming home from work tired and sleepy. they would destress themselves by clicking on the remote, looking for the best show until they fall asleep (I would tell my sentiments about TV later in another blog). In short, we don't have time anymore to read and write for ourselves ("We don't give time" would be the better statement).
Poetry is dying by the day (I bet you're saying "so what?"). Well, I care. I just don't want to be a part of the generation that killed poetry. I'll continue to write my poetry even if no one anymore cares.
posted by Duke Xander at 3:43 PM
2 Comments:
I think it's great that you stand resolute in preserving the already dying art. I write poetry myself, not as good as you do though. Plus, I mostly write in English. I've tried my hand at writing in Tagalog once and I submitted it to a contest during Linggo ng Wika way back La Salle days. It was entitled Nokia, Konekting Pipol. Surprisingly, it was chosen to be one of the "okay" ones. Hehehe. Chamba! :) Looking forward to reading more of your works :)
P.S. I've recently written a short poem about a very ordinary event - crying. It's posted in my blog. You might want to check it out. :)
I found a new group named guniguni. cool sya. although karamihan ng tula ay ingles, meron ding mga filipino.:)
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