Erle Frayne D. Argonza Candles and angels Angels and candles What makes them click Like they were home To each other? Burning candle Are beacon to angels Cherubims and likes they come For thy rescue or counsel Should you burn candles In flames of will and choice From a truly yearning heart [...]
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FEW HAVE HEART FOR THE OVERSEAS FILIPINO
Posted in Art, Erle Argonza, family, inspiration, Literary, Poetry, tagged contract workers, Erle Argonza, green bucks, illegal recruiters, migrants, overseas Filipinos, OWWA, POEA, poverty, remittances, technorati on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago Few have heart for the out-migrant Few recognize the grinding hardships faced In strange lands Few sympathize yet so many beg For the migrant’s gift when home S/he comes –the rich person Overnight. Overnight is saved money Sucked too by bloodsucking kins And neighbors and all. Never mind the possible [...]
TIRE NOT O! SWEET MOTHER
Posted in Art, family, Literary, Poetry, tagged 3rd World literature, Erle Argonza, Felisha Delago, filial piety, heroine, Joan of Arc, maternal love, mother, Philippine arts, Philippine poetry on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago Tire not, o! sweet mother of mine! You can never go tired and dreary Your dawning has yet to show up Your longevity a million revolutions of Earth yet. You have travelled too long indeed to make Your children secured in this world And abode of monstrous traps Where unprepared [...]
