17 March 2008
More Personification Poems
by Emma Luisa Pesebre, I-Venus
The worry that sits beside you
Speaks as fast as the sea
You were watching while
the sky is weeping
And a leaf burns to cry
It's hard to forget those worries
But tears are easy to weep
To let the people know
the emotion that speaks.
Happiness
by Lovely Mae Laborte, I-Mars
The beauty in happiness is that it never weeps
Though trouble keeps on groaning
Though dreams burn from giving up
Though beauty disappears because of age.
Why?
Because happiness knows
That she can always just dance with trouble
For it to slowly depart
that she can always bring dreams back
If dreams dance with her in regaining
confidence, perseverance and determination
For happiness surely does a lot of dancing
And she also knows that though one's beauty can wither...
The inner beauty can never fade.
04 March 2008
Personification Exercise
I-Mars and I-Venus students came up with these short poems. They were given specific nouns and verbs which they randomly paired, allowing them to use personification as a literary device. These poems were written in less than thirty minutes.
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by Juvy Grace Garay, I-Venus
Ask the wind to swing with your life
The blanket of hope drinks all your tears
For you to see the wonderful world around.
Ask the beauty of the world to read your mournful story
And soon to wipe all your problems
Ask the moon to burn all the sorrowful pasts
For you to live in a world where
a beautiful life goes around.
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by Denvic Lensoco, I-Venus
One morning, the wind strongly weaves
As the train waits before it leaves
And as I wait outside I see
That all of the people are very busy
As I ride on the train, all are still busy
But they are still smiling at me
As I sit on the chair, I see from the window
The dusk that scatters from the meadow
As the train leaves and passes the shore
I see the waves swinging more
I feel that the time is so fast
Because I see that I’m on my way home at last.
Nature at Work
by Li-Anne Serrano, I-Venus
The tree folded his branches to pray,
And beside the rock, there he lay.
The stone yelled for he was hurt,
Then he complained to little Bert.
The sky swung his cloudy arms to signal,
To do a favor from his pal.
Dawn thinks it’s already time,
To brighten the day, what beautiful sunrise!
I Just Wrote This
by Marie Patricia Clemente, I-Mars
Happiness waits
As worry scatters
In every road of life
we pass by.
Dusk draws into the sky
Using the birds as its brush.
The windows hug the sceneries
That the curtain sees.
Happiness Builds on Me
by Ma. Jessica Joy Mantes, I-Mars
The leaf swims happily in the ocean,
The stone sleeps soundly on the shore.
As the nigh falls,
The morning sleeps.
As the sun rises,
Happiness builds on me.
My Teacher
by Jepee Jerome Celorico, I-Mars
The wind teaches you
As your anger waits.
The dusk weeps
And let your worries drown.
You just remember:
The wind teaches you
And let your worries drown.