SONGBIRD’S MELODY

SONGBIRD’S MELODY

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

Songbird of the country

Please sing your tunes tirelessly

On valleys and hills

Sing afloat your theatre of amusement!

You are forever rewarded

With rice, shelter, care

By humble folks who truly cherish you.

Sing!

Sing for them! – the poor and wretched—

They who were left forlorn

By trusted lords

By false guardians of welfare

By deified magnates;

They who are now casting

New lives for themselves

New hopes toward betterment.

O! Songbird so dear!

Lift them up from slumber!

[Writ. 26 May 1988, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila.]

ELEPHANTS RAMPAGE KILL MAN

ELEPHANTS RAMPAGE KILL MAN

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

A man lies dead

By the side

Of a street

In urban India

Killed was he

By rampaging

Elephants

As man

Had enslaved the Elephant

For nigh eons

Is it cause

For wonderment

That the Elephant

Is exacting payback?

[Philippines, 28 August 2011]

MAYON D’BEAU

MAYON D’BEAU

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

Fiery and fuming Mount Mayon as a sanguine daughter

Of Vulcan Lord of the magma & seismics underneath

Yet so beautiful and magnificent it is the holy mount

For which my enthused eyes did see couples of times

On flights to Visayas passing by the Bicol basin

And also passing by Albay en-route to Leyte cool

Perfect in cone shape it seems God had ordained so

Erasing images of Vulcan as spiteful a wrathful deity

For her daughter Mayon is as majestic as Zarathustra

Always welcoming visitors even when she’s erupting

So behold! The holy mount to bless pass times a-coming

With noble energies to Bicol land will shower

[Philippines, 20 May 2011]

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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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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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HUNDRED ISLANDS

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

Sometime in ’93 did I and some university students

Motored to Pangasinan to visit idyllic Mangayao

To workshop biodynamic farming and homeopathy

Care of Bro Edgard Guevarra of my adeptic circle

Upon concluding workshop in rustic Mangayao

We motored pronto to famed Hundred Islands

Lucky enough we came on a nice weekday

With few people we got Quezon Island solo

On late afternoon I climbed a mount of site

To meditate and pray to Almighty’s Presence

And at dusk fall we camped on concrete edifice

That awaited our camaraderie with songs & poems

Truly beautiful and mystical too are those islands

With Manuel Quezon gracing statue on an isle

Amid howling winds at night we slept so real good

At morning photos & time to go to bless our mood

[Philippines, 27 January 2011]

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SOLANA

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

Across the Rio Grande Cagayan from Tuguegarao’s hide
Is Solana town ‘tis home to many kins of mine

There was I and brothers brought to summer holidays
Crossing the river by ferry as bridge there was none

There we played with carabaos, sheeps, and goats
Accompanied beloved Inggo who was pastor to them
With engrossed care we bathed them wonderful pets
Feeling at one with them we are truly blessed

Immersing in livestocks I grew to love them creatures
Built empathy along as I beloved more pets

Solana now is home to ancient pedigree of man
Whose bones fit half a million years to measure

Such knowledge thus to blend with sweet memories
Of my short but lovable stays in ol’ Solana town

[Philippines, 05 December 2010]

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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]

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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]

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DOLPHIN & WHALE SLAUGHTERS, SORCERY SACRIFICES!

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago


Catching as many dolphins and whales
They gleefully do with boisterous fun reverb
Bulging pockets they ready post-kill phonies
For the pouring thereafter of torrential monies

Sperm whales belugas orcas and all
Slaughtered are they for wax or meat
Likened to cows and tuna for dining tables
Greedy folks and merchants they to hunt
In all Earth’s corners true predators come
For the catch the prize of gory greed

Let it be declared in sonorous thunder
That all slaughterers of dolphins & whales
Are deeds of sacrificing life for Moloch
Mammon Ashtaroth bursting with gaiety
For those evil puppets of theirs slay
In their names come dirty slayers’ fun
And making no penitent for their slothful crime
Shall same folks be meted penalties so grime
For which they shall pay with gruesome kill
By the Overlords of Light a-thundering cometh

No quarters shall be brooked upon them killers
And same goes true for their dark evil masters
When life on them turns out they’d nowhere fly
Except to perish all as fumes consumed by flame

[Philippines, 03 May 2010]

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GREENS AND SMOG CO-EXIST

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago


Calming on a famed bar-resto
In the equally famed Eagle’s Nest of Antipolo
Sippin’ a glass of iced tea to cool
My focals brooked no quarters to feast
On the verdance and panoramic vista
Spread around hills from where I seated
To my back a wall of rock nesting
Another famed restaurant in noble state

Twas a day so clear of clouds a-near
But there afar below the flatlands
O’ Marikina, Manila, Makati & metro spaces
Hover dark malignant shrouds of smog
Blanketing the big city as endowment from Hades
Foreboding deaths unto millions of folks
Whose lungs breath toxic air as free trade

Luck it is that lush surround is retained
Neutralizing Hades’ grave emissions a-clear
And great it is that this city I live anew
Perches Divine Mother as nature’s nurturer
A true shelter indeed from all maelstroms

[Philippines, 19 April 2010]

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SUMMER’S DAY

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago


Warm is the day of summer.
The city’s drenched with sweat
Much more for humans
Sweats abound as unwanted flies
On the surface of sticky skin
Sticky is the summer’s day.

Warm yet blessed is the summer’s day.
The hot sun indeed bakes the skin a-gruel
Yet so does it burn all malignant germs
They quiver like it were their last
Winter, on a summer’s day
The signs of sickness shy away.

The body is a sturdy rock
Unreached by echoes of ailments
Only echoes of joy a-fleeting on a summer’s day.


[Writ. 15 May 1991, Cubao, Quezon City, M.Manila]