Surroundings

A Sijo

By Lovely Joy Monacillo

Grade 8 - Dignity

Can I ask you something?  Why are you not cheerful like the flowers?

Your mood is like the atmosphere that changes the sky every day.

But without the sky and the flowers, like you, I will not survive.

Lies

A Sonnet by Rhoda Maribojoc
Grade 9 - Mercy

Love is like a game: you win or you lose.

Follow the lies and you will seek the truth.

Like a soft toy that was brutally used

Where people enter you like a big booth.

Love is like an addictive kind of game.

It can make you happy, yet can cause you ache.

Like a star, you are wanting for more fame

Waiting for the time that your heart will break.

You broke my heart like it was not fragile.

The scars and bruises you gave made me strong.

I thought we’d see each other on the aisle.

But I was mistakenly very wrong.

Now I realize all you said were lies.

All I see in you are dead butterflies.

Feelings

A Sonnet by Tisha Gail Miranda
Grade 9 - Mercy















I never thought that I would fall for you

For I’ve waited for you a thousand years.

And we’ll be at the church, saying “I do”.

But I have these little kinds of fears

That you will leave me hanging in the air,

Where couples experience pain and heartbreak.

These feelings for you that I cannot bear;

I wouldn’t expect that I’d feel heartache.

But you’re right there when loving me gets hard.

You made me feel like I was a princess

When I felt that my life was in the ward,

And you gave me so much love that was countless.

I am so lucky to have you with me,

Because we sting each other like a bee.