BESTFRIEND

A best friend came unexpectedly. When no one was left to help you, when no one understands you and no one was there to listen to you. When you are lonely, she does all she can just to make you happy. Listens to all your problems and gave some advice. She could be your shoulder to cry on and understands what you’re going through. When you were happy, she’s also happy for you.

With her, you can be your true self. You can be as weird or as crazy you can think as.  You could try many things for the first time, do crazy and silly things and spend much time together. You can love each other like you two are real sisters. Do the best bonding and support one another in each success. Share every secret you have and make code names for some other person.

Having a best friend is really a blessing because you were not praying to have one but then she came. Feels like you have another sister that is much closer to you.

I am thankful that I have a best friend, who’s always there, who never leaves me through my ups and down. She’s always there to keep me strong and makes me happy. She’s one of the great persons I met. She accepts who I am and let me be just me. I love her because I know, she is my twin sister J

MOTHER

A mother is really important in one’s life. They are the ones who took care and give us love since we were on their womb. They gave us their time and attention when we are growing up. Gave us what we need and want. They are also our first teacher who taught us the alphabet, numbers, shapes and colors. They send us to school and wait outside until it’s our time to go home. Support us in our school activities and they’re the first who felt happy when we have achievements. Doing all she can to provide us the best education they could give and support us until we graduated. They also support us in our love life but stood against the one they know couldn't give us a good life or will only bring miserable life to us. Because mothers only want what is best for us. Until we got married, they are still on our side whenever we need help. But let you stand independently for your own family. No mother can resist her children, hence, she would help until she could. These are what mothers really do and a mother is really important in one’s life.

BROKEN

Is it true that after happiness is sadness? That the amount of your happiness today will also be the amount of your sadness after? If that’s the case, no one would prefer to be very happy.

 

But in love, sometimes, that thing/issue exists. That after being so happy today, you would feel so much pain tomorrow. But that is based on who will leave, who will stay, who can pass the tests and who does the fault.

Being in relationship brings happiness, sadness, headache, pain, etc. but usually, a couple who are in a relationship is most of the time happy. That’s why many relationships turns into a long-term relationship or what we are called marriage. As the quote says, “the moment you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to begin immediately.”

But why does pain is the twin of love? That if you fall in love, you must be ready to experience pain. I thought maybe even if you don’t intend to hurt someone, you may do it unnoticeable. Being hurt emotionally may compare to the hurt we feel because of a physical wound. It is very hard to experience pain especially being rejected and being left by the one you love. There are many reasons why these things occur but one thing for sure is a great pain will be felt after.

 

It’s easy to fall in love but moving on from someone you love is hard. It’s as hard as what suicidal person feels. A great pain which is like your heart is breaking into pieces literally. Your life will change, from the way you wake up in the morning until the way you sleep at night. No one can understand how much pain you feel thus you just want to give up. You feels like there is no tomorrow, no future for the both of you.

The hardest part of being hurt is the fact that you need to move on and continue living your life. Nothing will happen if you continue to sulk inside your room. An advice of how to move on I remembered most is this; “No one really forgets, they just used being hurt, and if they are used to it, that’s the time they accept the fact that the one they love is not really meant for them.”

LIMERICK

A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm. The third and fourth lines only have to have five to seven syllables, and have to rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm.

STAR
by Kaitlyn Guenther

There once was a wonderful star
Who thought she would go very far
Until she fell down
And looked like a clown
She knew she would never go far.


My own Limerick poem...

A Fan

There once was a suspicious man
Who chase a beautiful woman
Then he was caught up
And asked "man, what's up?"
They found out he was just a fan.

VILLANELLE

Poets have used villanelles for a variety of subjects, but all good villanelles have two things in common. First, villanelles have strong opening tercets, with the first and third providing two-barreled refrain. They also gradually build in tone and intensity from one stanza to the next.

THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
by Edwin Arlington Robinson

They are all gone away
The House is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say.

Through broken walls and gray
The winds blow bleak and shrill:
They are all gone away.

Nor there is one to-day
To speak them good or ill:
There is nothing more to say.

Why is it then we stray
Around the sunken sill?
They are all gone away,

And our poor fancy-play
For them is wasted skill:
There is nothing more to say.

There is ruin and decay
In the House on the Hill:
They are all gone away,
There is nothing more to say.


Here's my own work of villanelle...

PET

A pet is like a human
Because they can be loving
It's a pleasure to have one

When they came, they brought us fun
Especially when cuddling,
A pet is like a human

When they grow up they began
A part of the family,
It's a pleasure to have one

They already know their names
When hungry they are crying
A pet is like a human

They follow all your commands
Welcomed you when arriving
It's a pleasure to have one

Pets are really important
'Cause they gave a warm feeling
A pet is like a human
It's a pleasure to have one

HOW TO WRITE

GHOST STORIES

- Fear is the hardest thing to provoke in writing. Making a ghost story is effective if it is realistic and it would be better if you really experienced it.

-         BRAINSTORMING

Think of what is it all about and how it starts. Be original. Find an idea and start expanding this idea into scenes and into writing the ghost stories. You can also do the story board and number each scenes according on what you want. You have to make an eye-catching beginning, a breathless middle and a satisfying ending.

-         SETTINGS

Create a plausible and believable setting. The ghost story requires the reader to be shown the atmosphere, not told. The setting is not required to be creepy. It can be a common place with uncommon scenes.

-         PLOT

A ghost story needs a plot. Think about the best way t scare your audience. Create a mystery. All great ghost stories have a mystery behind them. Take an ordinary situation and inject something extraordinary. You may also involve figuring out who the ghost is. Don’t present a ghost without a background.

-         BODY

Readers need to be removed from their cozy surroundings and brought into the spooky world of ghosts. Look for emotional aspect in a story and add some high emotional states to reiterate how scared the reader should be. Character should have some element of fear that the reader can be made to feel along with him. Show the emotion through the character’s action, rather than simply telling the reader how the characters feel. Then end the story with a question in the mind of your readers.

-         TITLE

Make a title that fits to your story.

Source: wikihow.com/ thenoctrium.com

DEMOCRACY

Our vehicle passed by a thousand of people yelling at Batasang Pambansa. I got curious so I go out of the car and went near them. "Ibaba sa pwesto!", “Ibaba ang Pangulo!" that was the majority of the people is saying. Every term, every SONA of each President, this was the situation in this place. People are always complaining; because of they don't feel the progress, they still experienced poverty, plenty are still unemployed, the officials are corrupt, they used the money of people/mass for the personal use, etc.

I just thought, why do they put the blame on the President? Isn't success starts in one? One needs to be hard working and persevere to obtain success. If they don't want to remain poor, they must give their best in what they do so that success will chase them. Instead of blaming the administration, why don't they blame themselves?  I know there are lots of opportunities that were given to us. All we need to do is to have faith in God, and confidence in ourselves so we could escape from poverty. I believe in the saying “Nasa Dios ang awa, nasa tao ang gawa.” If we continue to depend our fate in God, and we don’t do anything, nothing will happen. If God has mercy, the acts are on us to do.

Instead of having an impeachment rally, why don’t we help our President? The important is he is not corrupting and the anomalies were also exposed in his term. He also built some schools in far places and really helps on the education in the country. Those people don’t know the hardship of being a President, he’s not only the one who’s implementing and holding the different agencies in the country. What if he did and implements what is right but officials under him were not? Is it still his fault? None of us is perfect; there are kind of people who are abusive. They don’t mind whatever would the effect just to be rich, though that money doesn’t belong to them.

Those who interrogate the President are the ones who are in rush to feel the progress of the country. But how will the country progresses if we don’t help to make it happen? How can we promote tourism if we are the ones who destroy it? There are lots of rich students to have the opportunity to study yet they don’t study hard. Why don’t they help the poor? But some poor became abusive if someone helps them. How can we feel the progress if we’ll just be dependent on the government officials? If they want change, one needs to move/act to change what isn’t right. To change what is usual/accustomed in the former leaders. Success comes from oneself and it must start from the youth because youth is the hope of the countrymen.