Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
No one should linger in a gallery
To dance on its floor.
The Cardinal
Has spoken. The clockwork
Of deception has flung open
Its can of worms. Churchwords
Don’t always bear powers
Of ex cathedra. The cardinal is human.
Schoolboys care for ice cream and delicatessen
On their classes’ end
They do not read their books’ pages’ lines
Nor recite oral [...]
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Bananas
are benevolent
providers
of delight
for our tongue,
and fuels
for our body;
they too
can be
the measures
of terror
sowed
by perpetrators
of naked power
in tropical princedoms.
[Writ. 27 Sept., 1987, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, MetroManila]
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
There can be
no savoring the foods
offered by Terra
without working hard for their generation;
no consumption of bounties
in torrential showers
without striving
for their production;
no recital of flowery
words about justice
without active contention
for their fruition;
no pleasant rest
of mind and body
without processing by
the sweatshops of labour;
no blissful state
of realized utopias
without rendering sufferings
from waylaid obstacles.
[Writ. 27 [...]
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