MARSHES OF CANDABA

MARSHES OF CANDABA

Erle Frayne Argonza / Ra

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 edible greens

And there vehicles run agog

When torrents bring oceanic floods

No more is this worthy of anyone’s esteem

Than to ignore it for its fecal state

Melons and fruits and rice now abound

In this once noxious forbidden land

No more is Hope rekindled the better

Than on the marshes of Candaba

Fly! Fly! Beloved Eagle to the peasant’s nest!

And laud him with your hymns of joy

For his victorious heartwarming travails on swamps

Indeed make him a true human champion.

[Writ. 06 June 1988, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila]

REFLECTION

From swamp to farm, from wasteland to production enclave, from nature’s ruins to citadels of life is the theme of the new life that was breathed into the swampy area of Candaba, a town in Pampanga province, to the north of Manila.

The wonderful narrative of Candaba had lived on for years, even as migratory birds flock there till these days to fill up people’s admiring eyes and ceaselessly churn out new stories of unfolding life. Not only does it pose itself as testimony to the travails of Mother Nature, it likewise poses itself as testimony to the sojourns of the ‘earth worker’ peasants who have given off much love and labors for the caring of Mother Earth.

Those who deeply cared for the Earth and nurtured its endowments without let up, perhaps across many embodiments till the present ones as farmer and/or indigenous people, will be elevated to higher dimension by Gaia once the Terra ascends by late 2012. They will comprise anywhere from 33% to 40% of Terrans who will comprise the population of the New Earth. 

Ra

March 2011

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