(Nalathala sa PINOY KLASIKS,
Setyembre 15, 1974)
Dinukal ng lipi... inusal ng lahi,
Kasangkapang banal sa pakikibati;
Landas ng isipan, tulay ng ugali...
Sumilang na Wikang taginting ng labi.
Buhat sa lagablab ng mga dantaon
Hanggang paraiso ng dakilang Quezon,
Minimithi-mithi't nilalayun-layon:
Ibansag ang Wika sa habang panahon.
Ang yaman ng Lahi'y dapat ipagbantog,
Diwa ni Balagtas ang kusang itampok;
Gamitin ang atin, ang Wikang Tagalog--
Ang wikang banyaga'y ariing panusog!
Bunga'y mahihinog kung ang diwa't gawa
ay magkakasukob sa payung-salita:
Bago ang halaman magbigay-biyaya--
Ulani't arawin sa dibdib ng tiyaga!
(Inunan ng Wika ay ating hanapin
Sa namuong bakas ng tubig at uling;
Baka masilayang Sanggol na ubanin
Sa Bagong Panahon itong Wika natin!
-- NORLITO ISON CERVO
Panitik Binangonan
Balangay 47, KAWIKA
Pandayang Sikap
Binangonan, Rizal
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Norlito Ison Cervo
The following article about Norlito Ison Cervo was published on the April 26, 1994 issue of Mr. & Ms. magazine.
Talk about professionals who aren't in the academic sense but by experience, Norlito Ison Cervo or "Norling" has grown his hair white doing the common man's work. "Marunong akong mag-electrician, magkaingin, maghukay ng kanal... Lahat ng ginagawa ng isang pangkaraniwang tao."
Tito Norling, now 61, also plays the violin, harmonica and ukelele. History traces him way back 1949 when he used to indulge in writing poems and comic scripts. His special liking for culture and anthropology brought him to his native roots. By 1965, he invested in social relations being the basketball playing coach/referee in Binangonan, his homebase. He found himself working for the television the next year. Even until Martial Law, his outlet ws doing comic stories. Tito Norling, a retired delivery supervisor and quarry paymaster at Rizal Cement Company., also laid his time as a translator in the Department of Labor from 1976 to 1977. On March 15, 1988, his very first article for Mr. & Ms. entitled "Is Tagalog the Missing Language?" came out in four pages, theorizing on how Tagalog became the mother of ancient languages.
Whether eating his favorite, menudo and Kanduli, or collecting archeological artifacts, Norling has immortalized national awareness. -- ap
Talk about professionals who aren't in the academic sense but by experience, Norlito Ison Cervo or "Norling" has grown his hair white doing the common man's work. "Marunong akong mag-electrician, magkaingin, maghukay ng kanal... Lahat ng ginagawa ng isang pangkaraniwang tao."
Tito Norling, now 61, also plays the violin, harmonica and ukelele. History traces him way back 1949 when he used to indulge in writing poems and comic scripts. His special liking for culture and anthropology brought him to his native roots. By 1965, he invested in social relations being the basketball playing coach/referee in Binangonan, his homebase. He found himself working for the television the next year. Even until Martial Law, his outlet ws doing comic stories. Tito Norling, a retired delivery supervisor and quarry paymaster at Rizal Cement Company., also laid his time as a translator in the Department of Labor from 1976 to 1977. On March 15, 1988, his very first article for Mr. & Ms. entitled "Is Tagalog the Missing Language?" came out in four pages, theorizing on how Tagalog became the mother of ancient languages.
Whether eating his favorite, menudo and Kanduli, or collecting archeological artifacts, Norling has immortalized national awareness. -- ap
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