Call for Maltese poems, lyrics, nursery rhymes
The National Council for the Maltese Language is inviting people to submit poems, lyrics or nursery rhymes in Maltese suitable for children aged up to five to e-mail [email protected] by August 31.
A committee has been set up by the council and the Department of Curriculum and e-Learning at the Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education to evaluate the lyrics submitted. For the lyrics selected, music will be composed which will then be uploaded on Youtube and compiled on a CD to be distributed free of charge to kindergartens and primary schools.
The lyrics should have basic themes aimed at introducing children to the world and social life around them.
These include seasons, names of the months and days of the week, weather, clothes, holidays such as Christmas, Carnival and Easter, village feasts, numbers, alphabet letters and their sounds, body parts and movements, colours, shapes and dimensions, animals, family members, jobs, real or fiction-al characters that appeal to children, toys, musical instruments, transport and games.
The list of topics is merely indicative. The committee will consider any other topic suitable for young children.
The lyrics sent should be original and entertaining; related to the world of children today; look at things through the eyes of children, and not a reflection of adult life on childhood; include an element of imagination; use the Maltese language properly; and reflect an open attitude towards other cultures and embrace the principles of social equality.
This is a non-profit project with the aim of compiling educational material for children.
No payments will be given to authors whose lyrics are selected.
The authors shall retain rights to their lyrics and their names will be mentioned wherever these are used.
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Pule' Carmel
Aug 1st 2012, 08:28
Some more thoughts.
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**Mahbuba tieghi.
Miftakar il-bidu,
B'imhabba herqana ta' tfal,
Fl-iskola nistenna,
F'xi loghba infittxek.
Ma gembek kuntent.
Kbirt mieghek,
Frahna, kattarna,
Batejna, wennisna 'l xulxin,
Kibru wliedna, gejna w'hidna,
Xjahna flimkien.
Jekk immur qablek,
mahbuba tieghi,
Bil-mod nimxi,
F'kuruturi mudlama w'mittiekla,
li nimxi wara l-mewt.
Sakemm ghalik ukoll ix-xemx tinzel,
Nistenna, fil-kwiet nistenna,
mieghek niltaqa'
U l-vjagg etern inkompli
Dejjem miexi hdejk.
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** Mulej fejn int?
Fejn insibek Mulej
fejn qalli missieri,
fiz-zerriegha li nnizra',
taht sema cara, fl-art,
mikwijja b'xema u mixghula
b'qamar,
jew
fejn qaltli ommi,
did-dell frisk, ktieb naqra,
taht saqaf go knisja,
imsahhna u mdawla
b'xemgha?
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** Id- dell ta' Realta'
Kif fatt, f'temp car u xemxi
gewwa barriera taz-zonqor
narah imnaggar b'mod;
jiehu ghamliet ta'xeni mdella
meta jissawwar
bir-riq, ilsien u pinna
taht soqfa mudlama
ta'qorti w skola
jew knisja mdawla
b'xemgha?
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**Ugly days in Maltese Education.
So we
were scared,
and yet
we cared
and prayed
and dared
and stayed
and thought
and sought
and taught
and fought
when might
was wrought
as right.
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Pule' Carmel
Jul 29th 2012, 19:06
Some of my thoughts in the Maltese language.
* Mir-rahal tmurx il-belt b'pass mghaggel biex tixti, d-dinjita'
*Imnerhirhom 'l fuq jghollu
min jghum fil-hmieg ikollu
biex la jarah u lanqas ixommu!
*fl-edukazjoni,
gebel tal gagazza li
ghall- pedamenti mhux uzat
huwa l-aktar apprezzat.
*Parir
Ahjar titghallem tbieh kelma, milli fjura.
*Tama fit-twemmin u t-taghlim
jibdilha id- destin
* il- kelma bhall karita, tinghata l-izjed mill-foqra!!!
Il- hsieb ta' Professur
* u kemm batejt
biex tghallimt
u bnejt
u bl-ghodda tieghi haffirt
u hammilt
u fix-xaghri zrajt
w'ilma tellajt
biex tmajt
u xorbu u xebbajt
ghasafar u grieden u frieh
ta' hafna kreaturi
li meta kibru ,kieluli
il- ward, u zrieragh sequli
biex bihom harbu kollha
lejn il- gungla
jieklu lil xulxin
* hsieb ta- Ghalliem
Tghatix u titlef.
* Kliem u xoghol mitluq,
mhux facli tigbru
* Ghall min ma jafx fejn sejjer
kull triq hi sqaq!
* Inqas taghmel deni
kieku ddahhal
subghajk f'halqek
milli,
f'ghajnejk, widnejk
jew imnifsejk.
* aktar verita' dahlet f'ghajnejja
u f'imnifsejja
misset idejja
milli
semghet widnejja
u harget xuftejja
* L-edukazjoni teknika madwari
trid tithallas bi prezz gholi,
fil- paci, b'injoranza banali,
fi gwerra, bi-dmugh, gherf u ghali.
* Hidma mizrugha wara mohriet
tnibbet u tinhasad qabel dik f'talbiet
Imma
Qamha f'hobza tas-salib
ittik is-sahha biex iggorru!
* jekk gherf ghalliem
johrog biss bi kliem,
id in-nazzjon
m'hix biezla
daqs
ilsien.
*To my students on their graduating birthday
Sharing your victory to day
Knowing that you soon be far away
I gaze with hope and joy and pride
Upon my graduating brides
Experiencing a sudden mute relief
As deep as love , as sharp as grief
Do trust in God, through all your days
Though dark the way still hope and praise
And later in the ocming years
You'll find the benefit of your tears
Bound is our partnership, short was your lease
Fly gentle doves, soar away in peace.
Since I wrote the last one many of my students have become hawks and crows !!! but still we try!
I should stop writing comments on this Times and publish my Poetry and Limeriks!! all in Maltese Language.
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