{"id":403709,"date":"2024-01-10T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=403709"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Tinian-Tasi-Yan-Langit-Sonneta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Tinian-Tasi-Yan-Langit-Sonneta\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinian Tasi Yan Langit \u2018Sonneta\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

My \u201csonneta\u201d is written in sonata form: Exposition, Development, Recapitulation, and Coda. Tasi<\/em> means ocean, langit<\/em> is sky.<\/p>\n

EXPOSITION:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sea can do craziness, it can do smooth,<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026and so no doubt can you and you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Mary Oliver (1935 – 2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

DEVELOPMENT:<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

The Tinian Sea can be todu kaduk<\/em>u, crazy<\/p>\n

yan lokkue tosta<\/em>, low tide quiet and smooth<\/p>\n

after weeks of calm it sometimes seems lazy<\/p>\n

then it quickly becomes rough and uncouth.<\/p>\n

Spitting sand and seaweed up on the shore<\/p>\n

as it has done for countless centuries before<\/p>\n

fish get caught in throw nets near the beach<\/p>\n

some escape and swim quickly out of reach.<\/p>\n

We too can be crazy, lazy, calm, and quiet<\/p>\n

disrespectful, dishonest, rude, and uncouth<\/p>\n

manifest gluttonous habits, need for a diet<\/p>\n

in life\u2019s ups and downs, old age back to youth.<\/p>\n

As we live and love next to the Philippine Sea<\/p>\n

the ocean can be rough and calm and so can we.<\/p>\n

RECAPITULATION:<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

Home seems so far away so sad am I<\/p>\n

the channel is wide I cannot get across<\/p>\n

the ocean waves crash, break and toss<\/p>\n

I\u2019m longing to look up at stars in the sky.<\/p>\n

CODA:<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

I look for steamy looking distant stars down<\/p>\n

near the Scorpio constellation\u2019s tail<\/p>\n

coming out of the Teakettle constellation\u2019s<\/p>\n

spout with hope my eyes don\u2019t fail.<\/p>\n

N.B. The Milky Way galaxy can be seen with the naked eye between the tail of the Scorpio constellation and the spout of the Teakettle constellation. The galaxy looks like steam that is coming out of the spout.<\/em><\/p>\n


Writing<\/p>\n

Joey aka “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My \u201csonneta\u201d is written in sonata form: Exposition, Development, Recapitulation, and Coda. Tasi means ocean,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}