Showing posts with label Cordillera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cordillera. Show all posts

Monday, June 20, 2011

SAGADA

SAGADA

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

Scheduled to fly to fly to California in due time

I decided to do holiday in Sagada before that

On a day in Summer 2000 passed by Ifugao first

To stay the night in picturesque Banawe

A return visit it was in this town d’gourmet

Till the following day I motored to Sagada

There to be greeted by Bulol the Silent Watcher

Spent couples of days to relaxingly walk

Visited the underground caves where ancestors lay

Awed at the marks of sea levels in cavernous walls

Visited bars and on a night sang along with acoustics

Bearing along with me theosophy books to read

And meditating too for so many an hour schedules

Cleansing myself with drinks of local herbal tea

And communicating with the Hierarchs for counsel

Whether shall I leave Filipinas for overseas calls

Snap shots and memories filling my memory bank

I left thereafter and passed by Banawe again for a night

To take stock of the future days awaiting me

And thank Bulol the Silent Watcher for the holy stay

[Philippines, 17 March 2011]

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

CORDILLERA COUNTRY

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

Igorotlandia d’ Cordillera is one whole story yet to tell
For this enthused soul who climbed up those fiery lands
Beginning in Summer 77 in Baguio the summer capital
Onwards to 81 in work visitations of Ifugao
Roll over to work monitors of Kalinga & Apayao
Likewise visiting Ilongots of Quirino their siblings
Till 2000 when I revisited Ifugao on my way to Sagada
There to communicate with the ancestors
And say my own appreciation for Bulol of the astrals

Cordillera is an awesome land like Marlboro country
Growing pines interspersed with undulating mounts
Blended with fjords and a nurturing hospitable people
Home likewise to gold and treasures beneath the mounts

Cordillera is amongst the guardian ranges of Filipinas
Standing tall across hundreds of kilometers to frown
Upon all predatory greedy people and bad folks
Its forests and rivers narrate history like mute beings
Of a mighty people scions of ancient Malayan Mu

Turbulence yet may come a couple of years from now
Yet Cordillera will stand still and tall
Beacon of ancient Mu and future Filipiniana

[Philippines, 22 December 2010]

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Monday, May 17, 2010

CORDILLERA BEGGARS?

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago


O! Beloved people of Cordillera!
Please lend me true reasons
For the fact that some members
Of your proud majestic land
Now belong to beggars’ armies
In the Manila Metropolis?

I know too well that your grand mountains
Are abodes of immense wealth and lores
Of a sturdy people that has never
Been conquered nor has starved
Not the strong and tireless highlander
Who never disdains sweaty labor
And sublime service even as bountiful harvests
Are perpetually reaped for family and clan
And offered at the altar of Bathala.

Is it the handiwork of Plunder
Now magnified by the clockwork of War?
If twere so can you be extricated
From Plunderers’ predatory claws?

O! Please answer my query for you too
Are to me a noble teacher of life.


[Writ. 05 June 1988, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila]