Changes (Poem)

Solo:

As each day approaches, changes always occur
Every now and then my life seems to be a blur
I make mistakes that to others seem to be unforgivable
My friends are avoiding me and my happiness seems to tumble

Chorus:

Don't say things like that, you're wrong!
Someday, someone who can accept you will come along
(S)He'll show you how to face mistakes for a better change
So that you'll have a circle of friends with a wider range

If people around you can't accept you for who you are
and it seems that happiness is a far away star
Look inside yourself and somehow you will find
That bad attitude is the one that makes you fall behind

Solo:

There are times that I reminisce about my past
About my family that did not last
From then I thought my life would come to an end
The notes of changes doesn't seem to make a good blend

Chorus:

Acceptance and Love is all you needed
To free your heart and mind from hatred
Belonging to a broken family is never a curse
Make the best choice and don't make your problem worse

Change is a part of our journey
Every little thing we experience has its own symphony
There are times that it's so confusing
and even in our dreams it's mind boggling

Life is like a book with lots of pages in it
There are tragic parts that make you want to quit
But we should continue reading and flipping those pages
And learn to accept and act according to the changes




Belita, Aubrey Rose R.
Bonono, Karla Mae B.
Brimon, Mae Ellen M.
Castro, Jessamine V.
Cruz, Maria Ana Pauline M.
Bernardo, Joseph Angelo I.
(Group 10)
IV-Platinum

Embellish the World

by: Fajilago, Jaycel Chris

Feel the field of childhood memories

Tour the world by creeping

Neglecting the clatter life based fro ignorance

As the days and nights go on, as you take the cruel path

Sinister confession in life expands continuously like noxious

Tumult that mar your innocent wind

Don’t force yourself to think about the morbid things

It will just turn you in vain

Inure your body soul to defeat the noxious confusion

Opine that you are just testing charade

For the progress that you aim

Escaping from the Pod (free verse)

Escaping from the Pod

(by: Karla Mae Bonono)

Right now,I'm all by myself
Walking along the crossroads of life
Reminiscing all the things that passed
Struggling from the things I keep inside
All through my life I've been in the dark
I have always hid my face and feelings inside
Doubtful of what I could reach
A secret me I forced to hide
I pretend to be someone else who I'm really not
When can I show them the real me?
When would I come out of my shell?
When couldn't I be afraid to face the world?
Hoping that someday I could reveal
Those those things that I keep bottled up within

Unrequited Love (Free Verse)

Unrequited Love
by: Jackileyn Esparrago

Whenever I see your smile everyday,

It makes me feel that you’re so far away,

‘Cause I know that you’re not for me

And we will not be ever be,

It’s hard for me to get cure

For the truth that it made me insecure

I know that the only thing you can offer

Is our friendship forever,

And that’s the thing that I bear in my mind,

Because I know that you can never be mine.

Goal (Free Verse)

GOAL


Achieving our dream is one of our goal
Dream that is impossible to get
Dream that is difficult to reach
But i know someday we can achieve it

Goal is a person purpose in life
Purpose that must be complete
To complete this goal it needs determination
Because theres a lot of challenges in our way

After facing all the challenges
When we already completed our goal
After achieving all our dreams
We can tell that were already complete

To Whose Memories With Are Treasured (free verse)

To Whose Memories With Are Treasured

Loving is befriending
So friendship needs love;
That's why i could not say
There's friendship between us...

There's no unconditional love
For loving hearts need a little attention;
Even now, i still love you
After all what I've done.

You acted like you're a friend,
You had fooled me when i believed
You're true and solid;
But that was just a dream afar.

You're so hollow but you look so clear,
You're the most impossible dream I'd thought of;
You're nothing but an image of a friend...
Yes, nothing but an image!

I tried to feel your laughter,
I tried to feel your pain,
I tried to feel what'd gone wrong;
But you didn't let me know.

And now, i tried to move on;
Going on with this life as a lonely daisy.
It's easier to gather friends from the Internet;
But i love to have a genuine friend...who's like you.

Still, you're irreplaceable
Still,you're incomparable, second to none!
The moments we shared together
Are treasures that'll never leave my mind.

I have my own path, you have yours,
The once same world is different now
But deep inside...i still appreciate the thing...
You've been my friend...though this is the end.

Julie Marie B.Dongon

IV-Platinum

Insensitive (Free verse)

Insensitive

It's been a long time ago,
Since I fell in love
And broke my heart
like tearing myself apart.

The time had already passed by
But there is still something inside
That I cannot understand,
That I cannot distinguish.

Those days are such nightmares of my life,
Those are the days I was alone in the dark,
Those are the days that give me the fright to turn back,
Yes, I am afraid to be deserted.

One day, I told myself that I've changed
That I moved on,
But still the fright is inside of me,
Though I know I am not alone anymore.

Now, new things came.
New friends,
New people,
Everything is new except my frights.

The sad feeling of staying in the darkest corner.
The fright that covers me,
The fright that kills me little by little,
everyday and every night.

There are people who are willing to enter my world,
But I don't allow them.
Wanna ask me why?
Because I don't have any feelings anymore.

Yes, I am insensitive
I am impenetrable.
I know deep inside me,
Above all these great things in my life, there's something lacking.

Not love,
Not hope,
Not faith,
Just something I don't recognize until now.

Dawn May C. Manansala
IV-Platinum

Free Verse

On the Go


Rush, rush, rush
to get my works done
fastly, fastly, fastly...

Trying to beat the clock's
second hand;
Trying to slow down the clock's
minute hand;
Trying to maximize
the time determined
by the clock's hour hand;
Trying to go on
step by step
like a cheetah on the run.

I pant,
I cram,
And now I can hardly breathe.

Time flies by, and
As I try to overtake it
in this race
we call life,
I carry on the guts
to make myself
be productive as I can.

Rush, rush, rush...

by Berna Balingit

Free Verse

Love for Real
(by Leonardo S. Sultan Jr.)

I drew some red roses and red hearts
With a sincere line attached to the roses
These will I give you with all the pleasures
And to say I love you with all my heart
My golden lamb and everything to me
That I will show you how I appreciate you
And to prove to you that my love is true
When danger comes near you I will be your knight

To find salvation you must admit you lost
The empty tomb is the foundation of faith
You may have much gold and grandeur
Yet by he be reckoned poor and riches
Truly God though nothing more than those
And nothing can shake those who are secure
But faithfulness in little things is a great thing

Free Verse

WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
Anna Rose Navarro


When I walk into this place
I wasn't thinking that I'll fall apart
Your shadow, walk behind me, and your face
A reminiscent from the days of old

No one knows all the thoughts
All the ideas I got and contains inside
I am broken apart, my heart
Is still looking for someone to feel right

I remember the night
When I'm feeling down
Thinking of you, my only one
Though for you I'm not the only one

My heart was like tearing down
When I see you walking away
Though you know it hurts a lot
But then you came numb

I guess sometimes it takes more than this
A false conversation, feeling all this pressure
Everything around me feels so broken and jaded
I wish these moments passed me by

You dont know what it feels like
To wish the day was over
You can't bring back this day
To have to start all over

Free Verse

I'm Smiling Today

I want to cry last night

Bacause I can’t make things right

He betrayed me, fooled me

And now my heart is in the state of being crushed

Who are you to think that you’ve earned my trust?

I’m smiling today

With my mind thinking that it would be okay

But i can’t see you everywhere i look

You’re leaving me like what i thought you would

You’re really leaving me and that’s just only for your good.

I’m smiling today

To pretend that i’m strong as i used to say

I know you’re happy with your decisions

I just want you to know that there’s no change in my emotion

Since first until now, I still love you the way i do.

Free Verse

COMET

by: Tuliao, Rina Joy A.

Lord, I'm here to wish for something

I've waited long enough

For this day to come

It might sound selfish

But my heart's beating faster

For each second I'm praying

I saw a comet once

And I know I'm inlove

I've waited for it to come

But science keep on telling me it won't

That's why I'm here

Wishing for a chance

Please let me see

The reason why I'm alive

The cause of my existence

The motivation of my life,

My comet.

Free Verse

MY GLAZING NIGHT-SKY

by: Nambatac, Karbela

Surely you're a star

In the wings of the sky

From the legend of a king

Unexpectedly you came

To this wide-eyed wanderer

You gyrated my life into fantasy

No puzzles to solve

No quandaries to solve

All I know is to be with you

For what we have is worth

fighting for

It's like catching lightning

The chances of finding

Someone like you

Surely you're a star

Glazing in my night-sky

Free Verse (individual)

Torment Of Love

By: Esparrago, Glaiza D.




I told you not to love me,
But you keep on wanting me.
I told you not to care for me,
But you keep on comforting me.

You give all the things that I want,
Still I'm not satisfied for what you've done.
You listen exactly to what I'm saying,
But it doesn't stop me to keeps on pretending.

I don't accept you for who you are,
So you've changed yourself the way I desire.
Yet, my contentment wasn't shown
And you tend to make it better by your own.

All your sacrifices were ignored by me
But you insist in doing it continuously,
I try to put an end on this
Nevertheless, you are willing to take the risk.

The Silent Epitome of the Heartless Sombre
(Volume 1: Unveiling the Colors of Sorrow)
by: Fiedacan, Bryan

As far as I know
I'm trapped inside this oblivion
Trying desperately to figure out your clandestine
How could you be so pretty
Its as if you stole her throne
The throne of Venus,
I know you stole it
even my heart,
my heart,
my heart,
cloaked with cobwebs of the past,
frozen yet impentrable. . .

and then you came. . .

defrosting the snowflakes,
banishing the rotting cobwebs
that weaved my soul. . .

. . .at last. . .

I finally found you
my strength and my savior

. . .and with you. . .
. . . I soar the skies. . .
. . . I flare the clouds. . .
. . . and cleansed all my filthy and wicked grief. . .

. . .but now. . .



. . .you're gone. . .

FREE VERSE

YOU'RE SEECRET ADMIRER

Reynante I. Amandy

If you only know how much I like you,

it will not be so hard for me to say what's inside me.

I like you just the way you are.

You're simple and natural.

You're different because you're extraordinary in my eyes.

I care for you even though it's not obvious.

I worry whenever you're not around.

I really want to see your face all the time

because you are the light in my life.

With your wonderful smile,

you make my heart beat.

You're my heart, you're my life.

But I think this will remain a secret

because until now, I don't know how to start.

If you only know how much you mean to me,

it will not be so hard for me to tell

how I feel for you.

Dreadful Truth Behind Love

Love is a tender affection for someone special 
make you realze why life is essential
But sometimes, it gives you pain that is excruciating
That everynight you will end up crying

Love can leave a memory that no one else can steal
But sometimes, it gives you pain that no one else can heal
Loving someone is not an easy task
You may sacrifice eveything
  everything...
  even your pride.

Loving someone will release you from the poison of your corrosive heart
Enlighten your soul and disperse the pain
Is to love, but love in vain

If love make you fel so worthless
it is the right time to end the happiness
Set it free and don't be in despair
And acceptthe truth that love is so unfair

- Ramento, Emmanuel M.

The Greatest Battle

I dwell in the realm of lies
Where folks are fond to reveal
The opposite of truth for them to find
the bliss and satisfaction they want.
I trained myself not to utter a word 
To explain my side to show the truth
Otherwise, the world will be my greatest hostility.
Then I shall keep my mouth shut
I don't have a defender to protect me.

As time elapses I've realized
That my greatest enemy is myself.
The courage I need to fight with lies
The courage I seek that keeps on hiding
Between the darkness and light
Both sides which for sure I cannot glide
That's why I'm eager to resist the havoc
Of the slander that veils my soul
The light in the world is perceptible
However, I'm not blessed with eyes to see
The hope endowed for me that's 
waiting patiently.

                                           - Limbo, Demy Y.

Free Verse

Gems of My Life

Life... so mysterious but so incredible
It sometimes make me do things
I didn't wish to do
Stupid things that made me realize.

My sixteen years in this world
Caused me to think what I should had known before
Lighthearted, some are serious, but true
Gems of learnings in life.

I should not have done something
If hte risk is greater than the reward
I should have thought carefully before acting
I should have done things at the right time.

Procrastinations killed me several times
And now, I'm looking back,
They all seem funny
Now, I can laugh with others; I'm great!

I know, life moves fast, but not so fast
That I can't slow down and enjoy it-
I never knew when I'm
Making m memory.

BY:
Karen M. Jose
IV - Platinum

Free Verse

Events - Beyond Us

Hearts and minds and souls we possess,
Yet - events beyond us do occur.
You were in full control of your own world,
While I take care of a different world,
But we met and our world became one.

You wanted to be free and uninvolved,
So I tried and suffered alone, suppressing my love.
Until for a while we both succeeded and parted,
And you unfretted, enjoyed your freedom;
I live my own with loneliness in my heart.

Suddenly, time took over and changed our lives;
You and I once more became one.
I thought it was wrong and unfair,
But my heart cried and fought and struggled.
Now, only events beyond us take place.

BY:
Geraldine Grace G. Garcia
IV - Platinum