Posted in Art, Literary, Poetry, tagged city, climate, contemplation, Erle Argonza, exercise, fitness, hot, loneliness, Manila, physical program, summer, warm on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Art, Literary, Poetry, tagged Cagayan, Cagayan Public School Band, composer, Erle Argonza, Estanislao Argonza, family, genius, gifted child, grandfather, Ibanag, Ibanag culture, inspiration, jota Cagayana, mascota, musical maestro, Philippines on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Farewell, beloved Grandfather!
I should have seen you
Yet but fate has not
Spared me the permission
To be delivered to you airlifted
Fate’s the traffic lights of for flights
T’wards your citadel on Terra
I will still dialogue with you
In my dreams, in dreams
You are a living memory
Of my youth and your wisdom charmed
And mixed like [...]
Posted in Art, Literary, Poetry, tagged craftsmanship, Dead Poets Society, Erle Argonza, free spirits, hope, inspiration, literati, melancholy, poetic instincts, profession, Ra Efdargon, skills, talents, technorati, wordpress, writing on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
You will come back, o! lost craft!
You were drowned in the great deluge
Where faith in self lost its scepter
To turbulent waves of underesteem
Faith has lost faith!
You are not lost!
Nothing is
Lost, not a craft that burns
The nights that owls had no monopoly
Over, beat your own despair!
Rise and ride astride the new [...]
Posted in Art, Literary, Poetry, tagged Aphrodite, Apollo, dearest, Dionysos, Erle Argonza, Eros, inspiration, jewel, love, love poem, precious, romance, soulmates, treasure, twinflames, values, Venus, Zarathustra on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Why do I love you so dearly?
As if love were an omnipresent elixir
From the teapots of Eros
Its fading is now next to impossible?
Certainly and o! so certainly because
You’ve been a person unto me who
Never ran out of kindness
Never ran out of reasonableness
Never ran out of sweetness
And so [...]
Posted in Art, Literary, Poetry, tagged contemplative, courage, Erle Argonza, leadership, Manila, motivator, Nietzsche, Obama, organization, Philippines, psychology, resentment, storm, strength, superman, tempest, will to power on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Welcome, most devastating Tempest!
I’ve been expecting your arrival. Do again
Try to smash my Will and sap my strength with your
Diabolic winds, undersea currents and tsunamis.
Let us, while the universe watches, dance together
With no choreography: you are destroyer of all laws.
Crash me, crash me till the hardest of my bones
And inner strength [...]
Posted in Art, Literary, Poetry, tagged Erle Argonza, inspiration, intuition, literary impluse, melancholy, mental blank, poetic instinct, psychology, sadness on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
No, lost shan’t you be.
Not when the voltages of inspiration’s currents
Flow like undiminished floods of recurrent
Seawaves upon imagination’s canvasses.
Let me find and catch you
In your deep slumber: ‘tis not your sad departure.
You’ve bid me no goodbye, not that I remember.
O! Poetic instinct of my inner chambers!
Come out of your doors when [...]
Posted in Art, Literary, Poetry, tagged classical Greeks, education, Erle Argonza, inspiration, Manila, mentor, myth, Philippines, professor, Prometheus, university, University of the Philippines, youth on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Welcome, Prometheus!
Descend upon the pillars and corridors of Academia!
Have your merriment and feasts among
The expectant adherents of your holy fire.
Illuminate the residents of Academia with your
Undying light: mana of reason and knowledge.
Awaken us to the flowering consciousness of the knower
As your light fires up the longing lamps of us all.
Remain! Linger [...]
Posted in Art, Literary, Poetry, tagged Asian woman, Erle Argonza, Eros, erotic, female, Filipina, gender, lady, love, Manila, Philippines, Ra Efdargon, romance, Shakespeare, theatre, thespian, verse, woman on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Speak to me, dear Friend!
Are you a ghost—a ghost of Light—
That smashes the granite rocks of masks
I’ve upon myself built with esteem’s cement?
Speak! Lady chronicler of the inner theatres!
Behold! We need no longer pass along
This world’s tortuous roads as our monads fuse—
Yours and mine, mine and yours.
Regain shall I my own [...]
Posted in Art, Literary, Poetry, tagged arts and liberation, decision, Erle Argonza, existentialism, faith, hope, inspiration, Manila, phenomenology, Philippines, psychology, third world, will on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza
Whenever the day starts I knock
Upon the doors of Life to request extensions
Of my lease to exist. Not that I
Will be merry forever notwithstanding fears
Tensions and anxieties that arise
In my here-and-now; I’m simply unsure
Of what may be up for me. Well, Life
Responded as always—cheerful, lighthearted,
Contagiously optimistic. I’d catch its air
Of glittering [...]
