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MOBILE PHONE TEXTULA

Who Started Mobile Phone Textula?

Frank G. Rivera

FRANK G. RIVERA is best known as founder of the SINING KAMBAYOKA, a flourishing theatre movement
at Mindanao State University. His extensive theatre involvement in the Philippine Educational Theatre
Association (PETA) under Cecile Guidote and Lino Brocka found its initial focus in scriptwriting for a
television drama series, BALINTATAW.

Also known as “makata ng cellphone” with his popular “textula” series, Rivera has, to date, authored 21
books of plays for stage, radio, TV and film; plus short stories, essays and four books of poetry published
by the UST Publishing House. He has received four National Book Awards while his poems and “textula”
are read in political rallies, passed around as text messages, read on radio, posted on social media, printed
in tabloid and newspaper columns, recited in school programs and utilized as material in oratorical and
declamation contests.

How It Started?

It all started in the year 2005. Every day, Frank G. Rivera sends poems about his opinions, criticisms,
economy, politics and happenings in the society to his close friends via text. He inspired some of the
Filipino poet writers to do the same thing and it was later on called as Mobile phone Textula. It spread
throughout the Philippines and organizations such as Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA) and
Filipinas Translation Institute sponsored contests of textula.

How Did It Became A Genre?

US-based technology and social media news blog Mashable.com released an infographic detailing text
messaging trends in the US and around the world.

Surprisingly, the Philippines continues to be the text messaging capital of the world.

It is visible that almost 95% of Filipino citizens use text messaging and by this medium Mobile phone
textula became a hit for Filipino Poet writers and even for average people.

Since mobile phone textula was introduced by different organizations, many Filipino Poet writers started
to write their own textula and send it to anyone via text. Joel Costa Malabanan which is a professor in
Philippine Normal University and Arthur P. Casanova which is a former student of Frank were some of the
writers who were inspired by Frank Rivera’s works.

Compare & Contrast Mobile Phone Textula

Unlike any other genres, Mobile phone textula could be in any type of poem as long as it has meter (sukat)
and rhyme (tugma). It can be a Sonnet (a fourteen-line poem with 10 syllables and has several rhyme
schemes), Haiku (consist of 3 lines wherein first and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7
syllables and rhymes at the end) , Dalit(consisting of four lines with eight syllables each and rhymes at the
end) and Tanaga (consisting of four lines with seven syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of
each line) . Frank G. Rivera’s textula works are often composed of 12 syllables per line.

One unique characteristic of mobile phone textula is also the style of writing or typing it. Textula writers
use the symbol (/) to employ that it is already the end of the line and they use (//) or (///) in every end of
a stanza.

EXAMPLES:

1) Sonnet textula

“SONETO SA PAGLISAN”

Dumating at saka muli kang aalis/

Takbo ng orasan lalong pinabilis/

Sana ang dahilan sa iyong pagdalaw/

Ang namuong lungkot agad na nilusaw./

At sa muli natin ngayong pagsasama/


Dadalhin natin ang bagong alaala/

Lalong pinag-init ang pasasamahan/

Na nagpayaman sa karanasan./

Sa iyong pag-alis muli mong baunin/

Matataimtim na mga panalangin/

Saka kakandunign an gaming pagliyag/

Na sa paglalakbay magpapahalakhak./

Tawang maririnig, magpapagunita/

Kahit ka lumisan, hindi ka nawala.///

Frank G. Rivera

Ika-30 ng Hunyo, 2016

2) Dalit Textula

Maraming salamat inay/

Sa ibinigay mong gabay/

Sa iyo ko iaalay/

Lahat ng aking tagumpay.//

-Roel Acaylar

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