A sonnet by Honor Blanco Cabie

 

“Cerrado ang opisina ni Secretary (kung Sunday), pero bukas ang tanggapan.”

–Lifted from Alex Allan’s FB post

                                                      

creative in approach, if i may state,

a clever way to play with words indeed:

quick thinking which here makes me celebrate,

if fleetingly, those with such quenchless greed.

 

amusement is created, technique good

such that it adds to language brand of wit

which manifests the obvious mark of brood

of greedy who deserve infernal pit.

 

the anger of the erstwhile quiet men

and women, lowly in their lifestyle, now

is pretty much aroused and many a pen

has bullets in its ink and off a bow.

 

there is in mood, in humor of the times,

the strength of helpless victims of the crimes.

 

            — Sept 10, 2025, Wednesday