Sa sinaunang panahon ng mga Griyego
nagtuturo ng pilosopiya si Aristotle sa kanyang mga disipulo
habang naglalakad sa isang malawak na patio.
Dahil dito, tinawag na "lagalag" ang kanyang larangan.
Ngunit ang mga mandirigmang makata
ay 'di hamak na lagalag kaysa lagalag ni Aristotle.
Pagkat tinutugis natin ang pilosopiya't panulaan ng masa
habang naglalagalag
sa mga lungsod at nayon ng ating bayan.
-Salin ni Aris Remollino
2017, Hunyo 15
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The New Schools
-Roque Dalton
In ancient Greece
Aristotle taught philosophy to his disciples
while they walked across a large courtyard.
Because of this his school was called “the peripatetic.”
Fighting poets
are peripateticker than those Aristotelian peripatetics
because we apprehend the philosophy and poetry of the people
while traveling
through the cities and mountains of our land.
-Translated from the Spanish by Jack Hirschman
In ancient Greece
Aristotle taught philosophy to his disciples
while they walked across a large courtyard.
Because of this his school was called “the peripatetic.”
Fighting poets
are peripateticker than those Aristotelian peripatetics
because we apprehend the philosophy and poetry of the people
while traveling
through the cities and mountains of our land.
-Translated from the Spanish by Jack Hirschman
