SASSY BELLADONNA

CW 10

the following are my works for my creative writing 10 class. well i discovered how easy it is to make a poem. hehehe... it doesn't have to be all so rhyming or perfect. hehehe... as long as i can pass something. =']

*the first poem is an exercise where we have to animate/personify or say something about a household object.

Mirror

In the darkness of my room
it shines
reflecting the moonlight

As I stand in front of it
I see
the very best of me

Through the years it has been
my best critic
a friend when I’m in need

A witness to all my dreams
and misfortunes

Standing in front of it
I used to do;
reciting all the poems
humming all the tunes

My reflection
it shows
the changing of the times
the beauty that’s around
me.

*this one is an exercise where we re-tell a story/myth/folklore through a poem and using another character's point of view.

No turning back

“Who’s your father? Can’t you say?
Where’s your father? Gone away?”

They haunt me,
these words;
voices of silly children
chanting it in chorus;
it pains me.

Ha! Who are they to say those things
crazy common people!
They who will be stuck in Tongabatu,
live like our ancestors and
die in vain.

But I,
Tau, the son of the Sun
will have glory!
the glory I long destined to have
the prize of being me

That night Aunt Luna,
the moon,
offered me glory along with brotherhood.
But nah! brotherhood?
who needs it?

Father said I should choose it,
brotherhood,
for it will do me good.
I was destined for great things, he says,
be the chief of Tongabatu.

I am not stupid you know
to stay in that place.
I despise them all
crazy common people!
they who always mock me.

But father was right
I should have listened.
But its too late
what’s done is done
I can never go back

Poor mother
if only I knew
that all the glory
would harm me
now here I am

alone

dead.

*next is my poem for the workshop. this will be revised soon. after my prof and classmates have given their comments

Rainy days remind me of you

Its that time of the year
when the roads get washed
the clouds reign over the sun
and the leaves shower me with care.

Its that time of the year
and I miss it
Now I am lonely
alone and reminiscing.

As I go around the house
I remember you,
everything

I imagine you on the couch
head on my lap
the two of us watching
all those movies ‘til dawn

You want more coffee?
I’d ask
and I will fill your cup
the aroma binds us together

I’d remember Seth come to you
and lick your face
We were so happy back then
so happy and carefree

Just like the roads
the two of us were washed along
separated from one another
forever.

lucia
7:55 PM

|