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    Mobile phone textula began in 2005 when Frank G. Rivera started sending poems about current events and opinions to friends by text. This inspired other Filipino poets to also share short poems via text, and it grew into a new genre called mobile phone textula. It became popular in the Philippines as 95% of Filipinos use texting. Various organizations have since held contests for the form. Unlike traditional poems, mobile phone textula can be in any structure as long as it has meter and rhyme, and uses symbols to indicate line breaks when typed on a mobile phone.

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    Mobile Phone Textula

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    Mobile phone textula began in 2005 when Frank G. Rivera started sending poems about current events and opinions to friends by text. This inspired other Filipino poets to also share short poems via text, and it grew into a new genre called mobile phone textula. It became popular in the Philippines as 95% of Filipinos use texting. Various organizations have since held contests for the form. Unlike traditional poems, mobile phone textula can be in any structure as long as it has meter and rhyme, and uses symbols to indicate line breaks when typed on a mobile phone.

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    MOBILE PHONE TEXTULA

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    Mobile phone textula began in 2005 when Frank G. Rivera started sending poems about current events and opinions to friends by text. This inspired other Filipino poets to also share short poems via text, and it grew into a new genre called mobile phone textula. It became popular in the Philippines as 95% of Filipinos use texting. Various organizations have since held contests for the form. Unlike traditional poems, mobile phone textula can be in any structure as long as it has meter and rhyme, and uses symbols to indicate line breaks when typed on a mobile phone.

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    Mobile Phone Textula

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    Mobile phone textula began in 2005 when Frank G. Rivera started sending poems about current events and opinions to friends by text. This inspired other Filipino poets to also share short poems via text, and it grew into a new genre called mobile phone textula. It became popular in the Philippines as 95% of Filipinos use texting. Various organizations have since held contests for the form. Unlike traditional poems, mobile phone textula can be in any structure as long as it has meter and rhyme, and uses symbols to indicate line breaks when typed on a mobile phone.

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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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