Showing posts with label Philipppines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philipppines. Show all posts

Monday, February 27, 2012

ABOARD TRICYCLES, JEEPNEYS, FERRIES

ABOARD TRICYCLES, JEEPNEYS, FERRIES

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago


Well they do

Carry you

To your travel’s destination


These tricycles

Jeepneys

Ferries


Hallmarks of tropical Filipiniana

Whose travel trails are mixtures

Of well paved avenues

And dusty rugged roads


They do make your tours

Altogether fascinating and crucifying


Even as the good buses

Flashy yatch and jet planes

That cater your travels

Lead your ocular organs to witness

The tapestry of wretchedness

And inertia of blighted villages

That altogether inevitably erases

The shangrilaic imageries about the tropics

That may gather in your mind

Like clouds over the Sierra Madre

That the Pacific wind eagerly dissolves.


[Writ. 09 Oct. 1987, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila.]





Saturday, May 28, 2011

NEGROS ORGANIC ISLAND & MASCARA FESTIVAL

NEGROS ORGANIC ISLAND & MASCARA FESTIVAL

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

Maybe we all ought to treasure the noble event

Of Negros Island declared an entire organic land

From Oriental to Occidental sides ‘tis the same

Narrative of organic life shaping to full bloom

Twas in 2005 on occasion of the organic launching

Timed with the Mascara Festival of Bacolod fame

As technocrat of food security I was invited

To grace the two-day convention of NGOs

And market players and government players

Challenged to inspire did I speak first of all

On Day One of the noble occasion to fore

Consulting then for Kaisampalad organization

Thankful to Almighty Creator I spread Light via speech

Goin’ out by night of that same Day One

Mascara muse filled the festive air of city cool

Muses hidden in masks paraded on the stage

Filled me and crowd ecstatic for grand ensemble

Goin’ home the day after the memory thus built

Organics and mascara fests are partnered to swoon

Takin’ home photos and pieces of gorgeous masks

To make my day they to remind me as organic baton

[Philippines, 22 February 2011]

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