BANANAS
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Bananas
are benevolent
providers
of delight
for our tongue,
and fuels
for our body;
they too
can be
the measures
of terror
sowed
by perpetrators
of naked power
in tropical princedoms.
[Writ. 27 Sept., 1987, University of the Philippines, QC.]
REFLECTIONS ABOUT WORK
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
There can be
no savoring the foods
offered by Terra
without working hard for their generation;
no consumption of bounties
in torrential showers
without striving
for their production;
no recital of flowery
words about justice
without active contention
for their fruition;
no pleasant rest
of mind and body
without processing by
the sweatshops of labour;
no blissful state
of realized utopias
without rendering sufferings
from waylaid obstacles.
[Writ. 27 Sept, 1987, University of the Philippines, QC.]
DIXIELAND LEGISLATOR IN NUDE
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Dixieland legislator
Has a dream to be president
Someday in Democrats’ name
Yet fond was he
To google Earth with his nudity
Chagrin-bleeding Democrats’ shame
[Philippines, 21 September 2011]
