Villianelle

Isn’t it Obvious?

Obvious, don’t you think?

Everything is given

Not really, as you link

I can see as I blink

Colors of the button

Obvious, don’t you think?

Like a bird, I can seek

Sight is always given

Not really, as you link

I can talk, also speak

About my emotion

Obvious, don’t you think?

I can hear people shriek

Can you also listen?

Not really, as you link

I could be strong or weak

Everything is given

Obvious, don’t you think?

Not really, as you link

Elegy

Elegy of Homework

What should I do, no time left for today

How much homework left? To make me suffer

What time is it? It’s time to go to sleep

Too much homework, tomorrow is today

Homework is a great thing to torture kids

It has great power to take up your time

Great power indeed, nothing could stop it

No one can destroy because of his powers

Homework will help us be educated

It’s a workout to prepare for future

Think positive that homework is useful

It will help you in your own future grade

Ode

Ode of Music

Your heart beat beats with the rhythm of sound

Becomes your best friend in the universe

Friend that tells stories about people’s mind

A friend that could control your emotions

When you are lonely it’ll be right beside

Entertain you when you are spiritless

Is it your only friend you could rely?

Does your friend help you to feel happier?

Does music block the world that you deny?

Being a friend with music could be hard

It could be blocking the society

However it will always be with you

Sonnet

LOVE

Last forever and happy together

No one could break us, no one could take us

We’re always together and forever

Happily ever after, that is for us

No ones with me, very sad and gloomy

We broke up, would someone know this feeling?

In some place all alone with no one with me

Love is painful do you get the meaning?

Alone but happy to see him all time

No one know what I feel and what I think

I’m afraid to ask him out on a date

Wish he stands in front of me when I blink

Love is something that no one knows at all

Love could be lovely, painful, or tangle

Ballad

Choir KAIAC

Woke up at five, get ready for the trip

Trip to Seoul, why so early in morn

Time passes, nothing happens, quiet trip

KAIAC starts, we are ready for our turn

                     

Rehearsals starts at nine, the whole day trip

Rehearsals, day with no relaxation

La la la, poor body ready to drop

Time is ticking, lunch time is coming on

What?! Lunch is breakfast?! Hungry, the worst trip

Money’s flying away from me, sadden

La la la la, my poor stomach with cramp

Yay! Hurray! Concert time is coming soon

Thought KAIAC was a competition trip

Nope, it’s just a concert, became sadden

La la la, concert begins, I’m used up

Time to go back home before the sun down

Again in the bus, it’s a quiet trip

Exhausted and need some relaxation

Came home after sun down, put my clothes up

Argh! There is homework before I lay down

Sonnets

Shakespeareans Sonnet

# 5

Those hours that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell
Will play the tyrants to the very same,
And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there,
Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
But flowers distilled though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet.

Modern Sonnet

Let's Be Friends Again

by Anthony Dela torre, Philippines

I never expected this to happen

I never wanted to make space between us

but nevertheless I can fix what's broken

and our friendship to somehow last

We both know that we misunderstood each other

and that our friendship became unstable

but we can't deny that we both miss each other

yet being friends again isn't impossible

Our own pride sets us apart

but this can be prevented

by understanding the feelings in our heart

and once again we will be reunited

I want us to be friends again

and hug each other in a count of ten.