JUVENILES LIBER

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

Juveniles’ minds like sheets of papers are
Where learnings get imprinted bit by bit

Query’s who does writ the learnings for the youth
Will such learnings be for yearnings o’truth
Won’t such learnings be for sordid enchainment
In rocks so huge a-trapping one like Prometheus

The challenge lies therefore in making those bits
Mutated scissors they to tear the masks
Beguiled no more will juveniles be set free
Their inner monads smile in infinite glee

Till Light engulfs those sheets of pages full
That each then be a torch of freedom bliss

[Philippines, 16 April 2010]

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CRIMES

 Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

The still calm of the morning

Is as deafening as stories

About crimes

Printed in the dailies

Broadcast on radio

Crime has become the cheapest

Merchandise

Flaunted by its own law

Of supply and demand

Its price roughshodly lowered

By abundance

More abundant

Than mangoes and guavas

They need not be bought at all

So much that even the harmless streets

Of recluse villages

Become zoos

Littered with

Salvaged

Bodies

 [Writ. 29 May 1991, Cubao, Quezon City, M.Manila]

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