Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
In Sept ’93 came the momentous occasion
For me to climb the bosom of Mt Banahaw
A mystical moment twas truly memorable
With students in UP Manila to share the time
After the class in social movements did I decide
We go up great Banahaw to conclude the term
And then by late afternoon we shall swim & camp
As dusk approaches we read poems & stories too
Just upon arrival did the mountain Diva reveal
Herself to my inner focal sending messages
Intuit did I those thoughts of camaraderie
With Nature world to share the holy estate
Then came the knowledge sometime in ‘99
That Banahaw will be home to Planetary Chi
To beacon Filipinas’ role in Aquarian Age
As Mother’s Womb for all the times’ adage
[Philippines, 22 January 2011]
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Showing posts with label university. Show all posts
Showing posts with label university. Show all posts
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
MACQUILING’S CALL
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
The calling
To do sublime tasks in Macquiling
Could have been gladly whispered
Thousands of times before
Via winds of heraldries
Upon my enthused ears
Though seemingly muffled
By time spent
In the Big City
The calling reached me back
Till I heard past my lips
I recall betwixt my veins
Beyond doubt I obtain
No more to entrust to oblivion
To the charge of chores I came
[Philippines, 05 July 2010]
[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
The calling
To do sublime tasks in Macquiling
Could have been gladly whispered
Thousands of times before
Via winds of heraldries
Upon my enthused ears
Though seemingly muffled
By time spent
In the Big City
The calling reached me back
Till I heard past my lips
I recall betwixt my veins
Beyond doubt I obtain
No more to entrust to oblivion
To the charge of chores I came
[Philippines, 05 July 2010]
[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
CAFÉ COUNTRY
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Walking leisurely along Grove avenue
Past the noble gates of Plato
O’ my new academic den
I breezed by coffee shops
To my left and to my right
I seem to be transported
To famed Bohemia of halcyon days
There to sip coffee and chat
With minds of bedazzling brilliance
Shaped thoughts that changed
Old worlds broken down by innovations
In like vein this Little Bohemia
Offers thee myriads
Of cafes and novelty shops
Of bars and pastry foundries
They can make one stay here
Glued like thick gel leaving marks
Of genius and galores of ideas
[Philippines, 05 July 2010]
[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
Walking leisurely along Grove avenue
Past the noble gates of Plato
O’ my new academic den
I breezed by coffee shops
To my left and to my right
I seem to be transported
To famed Bohemia of halcyon days
There to sip coffee and chat
With minds of bedazzling brilliance
Shaped thoughts that changed
Old worlds broken down by innovations
In like vein this Little Bohemia
Offers thee myriads
Of cafes and novelty shops
Of bars and pastry foundries
They can make one stay here
Glued like thick gel leaving marks
Of genius and galores of ideas
[Philippines, 05 July 2010]
[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
UNIVERSITY CLASSROOM
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
A noble ground it is this wondrous room
Where enthused adepts wait in seats a-poised
While mentor fills the air with notes a-flamed
That conquer maladies Ignorance had unveiled
Said conquest needs complete obeisance then
To reason and empirics’ tones of truth
Without which otherwise all things fall ‘part
As dark as what yon Medieval had cast
Sacred! Sacred is this noble ground we’re in
Where flaunted are ideas in liberty fulfilled
Where rigodons of reflection bring emancipation
Eschewed are dogmas—ikons’ benediction
How cool the air from humming fan is blown
Reminds us thus of sunlit valleys warm as old
Where there descend cool breezes from boondocks’ heights
Relieved is tensed up mental bank of yours
Sometimes the heat flack up thermometer’s gauge
Bring swelter hence to enthused minds a-blazed
Alright just mind not that which puts one a-glazed
For cool will be dear mentor’s words unfazed
Let there be praises for all women and men
Who’d fuse their minds in this Platonic den
Should they have grasped so well each lesson learned
Their worlds off walls would better be in zest
[Writ. 02 March 92, University of the Philippines Manila]
A noble ground it is this wondrous room
Where enthused adepts wait in seats a-poised
While mentor fills the air with notes a-flamed
That conquer maladies Ignorance had unveiled
Said conquest needs complete obeisance then
To reason and empirics’ tones of truth
Without which otherwise all things fall ‘part
As dark as what yon Medieval had cast
Sacred! Sacred is this noble ground we’re in
Where flaunted are ideas in liberty fulfilled
Where rigodons of reflection bring emancipation
Eschewed are dogmas—ikons’ benediction
How cool the air from humming fan is blown
Reminds us thus of sunlit valleys warm as old
Where there descend cool breezes from boondocks’ heights
Relieved is tensed up mental bank of yours
Sometimes the heat flack up thermometer’s gauge
Bring swelter hence to enthused minds a-blazed
Alright just mind not that which puts one a-glazed
For cool will be dear mentor’s words unfazed
Let there be praises for all women and men
Who’d fuse their minds in this Platonic den
Should they have grasped so well each lesson learned
Their worlds off walls would better be in zest
[Writ. 02 March 92, University of the Philippines Manila]
Saturday, July 24, 2010
FAREWELL TO ACADEMIA
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
The time, yes the time has come
For me to say farewell to you o! Academe
I’d again face the hostile world outside
Where rapacious Existence devours its gullible prey.
How gently comforting are you o! Academe!
A supreme shelter against diabolic boulders spewed
By the volcanic raptures of a putrescent world.
You are the soft bed where I’d laid
My tired body, tired from sojourns aplenty
You are the stars and moons joined together
That illuminated the nights of my life’s first half
You are the magical stove that patiently cooked
The ideas harvesting from my ever-searching mind
You are the resting stations all in all
In the Calvaries and Golgothas of my life.
Why depart I now that in you I am in bliss
Clearly because I’d been fated by history and self
To entrench my soul in humanity’s bosom
Share in the extirpation of malignant social ailments
Rooted in sorceries of injustices and imperial lust
They that had mired people in fecals and hovels.
Thereof I go forth, the molded warrior-poet
To thrust once more my blades against historic demons.
What words have I to say my gratitudes
These I can’t but feel them from my heart
I know that off your walls you are my trusted pal
Whom I will caringly long for in the morrows
Rest assured thus I bade farewell in full comfort.
[Writ. 16 Feb. 92, Cubao, Quezon City, M.Manila]
The time, yes the time has come
For me to say farewell to you o! Academe
I’d again face the hostile world outside
Where rapacious Existence devours its gullible prey.
How gently comforting are you o! Academe!
A supreme shelter against diabolic boulders spewed
By the volcanic raptures of a putrescent world.
You are the soft bed where I’d laid
My tired body, tired from sojourns aplenty
You are the stars and moons joined together
That illuminated the nights of my life’s first half
You are the magical stove that patiently cooked
The ideas harvesting from my ever-searching mind
You are the resting stations all in all
In the Calvaries and Golgothas of my life.
Why depart I now that in you I am in bliss
Clearly because I’d been fated by history and self
To entrench my soul in humanity’s bosom
Share in the extirpation of malignant social ailments
Rooted in sorceries of injustices and imperial lust
They that had mired people in fecals and hovels.
Thereof I go forth, the molded warrior-poet
To thrust once more my blades against historic demons.
What words have I to say my gratitudes
These I can’t but feel them from my heart
I know that off your walls you are my trusted pal
Whom I will caringly long for in the morrows
Rest assured thus I bade farewell in full comfort.
[Writ. 16 Feb. 92, Cubao, Quezon City, M.Manila]
Friday, June 4, 2010
PROMETHEUS IN ACADEMIA
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Welcome, Prometheus!
Descend upon the pillars and corridors of Academia!
Have your merriment and feasts among
The expectant adherents of your holy fire.
Illuminate the residents of Academia with your
Undying light: mana of reason and knowledge.
Awaken us to the flowering consciousness of the knower
As your light fires up the longing lamps of us all.
Remain! Linger on! Let your sacred essence be
Of the inherited Elixir of our triumphant march
Along Life’s trek!
Happy at last will be Zeus over our sublime fraternity.
[Writ. 11 November 1988, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila]
Welcome, Prometheus!
Descend upon the pillars and corridors of Academia!
Have your merriment and feasts among
The expectant adherents of your holy fire.
Illuminate the residents of Academia with your
Undying light: mana of reason and knowledge.
Awaken us to the flowering consciousness of the knower
As your light fires up the longing lamps of us all.
Remain! Linger on! Let your sacred essence be
Of the inherited Elixir of our triumphant march
Along Life’s trek!
Happy at last will be Zeus over our sublime fraternity.
[Writ. 11 November 1988, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila]
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