Friday, January 27, 2012

BANANAS

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.]




Friday, January 20, 2012

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.]

Monday, January 16, 2012

DIXIELAND LEGISLATOR IN NUDE

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]