Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Sleeping while inner rage brews
Inside one’s cognitive vat does not make
A sleep the fulfillment of a day’s toil.
Not for Juan the unlettered and dispossessed
Whose wretchedness is a correlate of wealth
Amassed by his other brothers whose
Purses and stocks do bulge ad infinitum.
Not for Juan. Reserved inner rage
Sooner unfolds into a thousand [...]
Archive for June, 2008
JUAN’S NIGHTMARE
Posted in Literary, Poetry, tagged art and liberation, dreams, inspiration, nightmares, Philippines, resentment, third world on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
FAREWELL TO A DECEASED KIN
Posted in Literary, Poetry, tagged aging, Argonza, art and liberation, death, disease, family, health, inspiration, kinship, mortuary, third world on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bro. Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
History is Judge and Witness
to the truth that my heart is ne’er
A nest of
Resentment
for you o! deceased kin
You were never a
Creator of terror and trouble
nor villain are you for the anguish
you’d upon me outpoured from time to time
No resentment!
Be in peace as the Dove that is [...]
CADAVER’S BIOGRAPHY
Posted in Literary, Poetry, tagged cadaver, crime, human rights, politics, summary execution, third world on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
vermin upon vermin gather in mounds
undistinguished from the morsel
felled by it’s ego’s date with Grim Ripper
25, 50, 100, etc
are found without names in named or unnamed
cemeteries
uncelebrated figures
are puzzles that are delightful to civil
libertarians’ appetites for enigmas
–shadows without tales
or felled bodies do have sagas of pain
or joy unaffected by [...]
MARSHES OF CANDABA
Posted in Literary, Poetry, tagged eagle, food, fruits, migratory birds, nature, Pampanga, swamps, third world, vegetables on June 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Erle Argonza y Delago
When hawks and other living flyers
Set foot on swampy fields for feeding
Tis a marvelous sight that glows the eyes
As mark of platonic appreciation
Where muddy waters used to fill
The air with constant foul-smelling vapors
And gift the neighboring men and women
With malaria and ailments and more
And leave no space that’s fertile enough
For crops and [...]
POLICEMAN
Posted in Literary, Poetry, tagged deviant behavior, inspiration, Manila, peace & order, Philippines, police, rogue cops, third world on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Policeman! Throngs of multitudes are
Waiting for your return to civility!
On account of the erosion of your image
As a reliable enforcer of statutes
By your recalcitrant engagements in
Extortions and rackets and every condemnable
Act that are well perceived by the periscopic oculars
Of the consummate public;
Come home, policeman! Come home
To the moral niche of civility!
For [...]
WHEN YOU NEED A NEWSREPORT
Posted in Literary, Poetry, tagged insurgency, liberation, News, third world, war on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
If you’ve gone through a commotion
Or an accident of sorts
And you feel the urge to summon
Newsreporters to the scripts
Ah! Don’t ever waste your sweat
On thick layered phone directories
To call on foreign newsmen to the fore
For these souls today are hounded
On cryptic suspicions of support
They give to rebels on the hills
You might [...]
