TAAL

TAAL

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

Fiery and fuming in its seismic steads

Yet so friendly and idyllic a mighty little volcano

Taal sits by a blanket of cool pristine lakewaters

A lake that’s collapsed space of a gigantic caldera

Taal is once scenery that I never tire to visit

Contemplative and meditative tours often I do

Many wondrous times did I visit Tagaytay

To contemplate anew on the glorious fuming mount

Coming often from Silang town where nestles

My sister Ethleen’s family amongst coffee breeders

There to visit Tagaytay almost thrice a year or so

Sometimes touring university students there

Zoo and ‘palace by the sky’ plus gaming hotel

Horse ride too by famed garden squeezed in sites

Royal lunch & dines by special gourmet restaurants

Bulalo cafeteria did spice many of my visits

Then came opportune moments to ride & visit

Laurel & towns on Batangas side of Taal circa ‘98

Preparing designs for grand projects to boot

For parish priest and partner investors a-ready

Saw Taal mount down the spaces of coastal towns

Still as beautiful as it remains from higher space

Untiring to pay visits to the fiery friend mount

I shall go there again in time to visit & buy coffees

And pray that mighty blessings be had for peoples

Sharing spaces with the friendly volcano

[03 May 2011]

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CLARK

CLARK

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

From ’86 through 2004 did this enthused traveler visit

Clark Airbase of Angeles City blues in Pampanga

Marveled many times thus at its constructs

Trade shops and resort spots to rest the day

First coming to teach at the Clark campus

Of my beloved University of the Philippines

To teach sociology to American G.I.s and personnel

Driven by school van we came home at night

Shopping for ice cream & chocolate delights

Then onwards in ‘89 through ’94 did I come back

Again and again as resource lecturer of learning tours

Bringing along students from Manila’s diverse schools

Interacting with American troops on their last stay there

Till the days when Americans were to be seen no more

Onwards till 2001 bringing along a high school classmate

We stayed by famed Mimosa to drink & chat

While others played some baccarats in casino fumes

The coming home proud with baggages of choco & liquor

Bought from bazaars of free trade there

Move forward again in 2004 where my palace team

Planned the founding of a new agency by the river Pasig

Back to Mimosa to stay and workshop the days

Then leaving Clark full with chocos liquors & buys

From the same free trade bazaars

Then lastly to celebrate the opening of Macapagal air

Graced by brilliant lady president Gloria d’ economist

In late 2004 saw for the last time the long airstrip

Of the once mighty American airbase to spare

Did meet d’Gloria for the first time to boot

[Philippines, 21 April 2011]

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VIGAN COBBLESTONES

VIGAN COBBLESTONES

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

Cobblestones all over the graceful ancient city

Vigan transports you back in time to Hispania

Stone houses combining Antillean & local builds

Calesas to take you around as carousing traveler

Luna & Crisologo houses lead in museum fame

Basi bagoong vinegar & delicacies for cuisine delights

Abel blankets & textiles from cottage foundries

Clay tablets pottery jars kilned and bazaar sold

Thus came my opportune time to be transported

Came April to May of 2006 a-cruisin’ Ilocos region

Training my project personnel in tours delights

Did I come to visit Vigan on perfect sunny days

Never failing too to amends with wild game pets

My team strutted like orbs the zoo Baluarte

Pony to ride around and ostrich to snapshot

Chimpanzee to clown a bit and tame tigers to squaw

I could only wish that two centuries back

Vigan was much like it is today

Where fun and business blend to shrine the soul

With experience worth sharing to future kids

[Philippines, 15 April 2011]

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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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