30.3.14

Writing Exercises/Prompts.




Marathon Exercise Woo!!! :D

March 30, 2014

*RB = requested by

All works: Jyrenne Guerrero


42

Forty-two foldings
Could get you to the moon
The numbers say
Paper folded into exponential
Height and thickness
This equation contained
Within a person's mind
Girth no greater than
The physics 
(10) He desires to define
Inside, he finds
Patterns unfolding
Through the abstractions
And chaos outside, he loses
What he struggles
To build in measure
And chooses it's necessary
To take a careful step
Everytime, burning it
(20) Trading in the hours 
Of feared mistakes
And have one righteous prize
Inside his mind
He finds this to be defined
As much as it it is 
In everybody's minds
He succeeds to keep
What's slowly dying in the process 
Counting numbers
(30) Improving in succession
As the being degenerates
From its existence
No other being counts
Forty-two paper folds
Forty-two street addresses
Forty-two multiple of three
Still, he counts
What nobody would ever see
But the minds who find sacrifice
Forty-two defines
Calculations set other beings free.


RB: Michael Poblete





 The World
(in the web circa 2014)


Much Vague
Wow Very Nice
Crie Nao Huehuehue
Lost in the decrepit
Swarm of intellectuals
Trying to prove
Each other's facts
Mini-victories
Likes
High Scores
The right directions
Burning eyes
Through the screen 
It's always available
All here,
Festering frustration
Here and there
Lost in the records 
By the watching eyes
Outside this game
They've created
We're playing on
High Scores
Caging ourselves 
Overdosing on the information
Just the 40% of us imposes.

RB: Juan Carlos Kagaoan





Mendiola

Sadyang hindi madaling 
Mapahintulot ang magaling
Kung hindi magmamartsya
Sa daanan
Ang ilan ay sadlak pa rin
Sa kasinungalingang
Napapasa bilang batas.

Ngunit, sino ba ang nagsabing
Kailangang may ideyolohiyang
Nilalakad sa daanan?
Sa bawat padyak ng ganid
Ay ang pumapaningas na
Pagpapaubaya, pagpapalibot
Ng ideyolohiyang tinangkilik
Bilang ating kultura

Trapik sa daanan
Kulang daw sa disiplina.
O 'di kaya'y kinulang sa
Pang-aalipusta?
'Di sa mahabang oras
Na ginugugol sa paglalakbay
At 'di rin sa mga oras nang pagtitiis
Na naipon sa ilang oras 'din ng
Pagrereklamo sa isang kanto 
Bago tumawid

Sa pagsakay sa 'di na pinabagong
Dyip, tayo'y nagdidildil ng mga butil
Nang paglingap
Iniipon at naisasambulat upang mawala
At makain lamang ng mga ganid na ideyang
Ating kinakayang pahintulutin
Di kaya't pang-aalipusta 
Kung sisikapin ring maglakad
Sa daanang kaya nating angkinin
Sa halip na tayo'y magpapaupo
Sa karwaheng walang pagbabago
At itatapon lamang ang sarili
Sa paningas na nagpapaikot,
Nagpapasa sa daanang
Kaya rin nating tawirin?

RB: Jayphen Aguinaldo Isidro

Infatuation

One step up from crush.
A step down nearer to the friendzone.

RB: Hazel Verde


The CSU and HUNGER GAMES

Parehas silang sikat,
Sinasakripisyong mga kabataan
Patagisan
Sa isa't isa
At minsan pa'y, 'wag naman
Paabutin sa karahasan
Pagnagtagal.

RB: Kevin Rosete

About a husband talking to his dying mother

He sits beside her on the death bed. This house he has been staying on for most of his life has grown strange to the life he's now living in with his wife. It started when his father died, it took the grief from its strange pains now that this is about to happen. He tells her all the things he remembers with her and she looks at him as the child she cradled in her arms. He tells her how losing her would make him lose the most important source of love he ever knew and she proceeds to remember the time she has given birth to a boy she nurtured in for months. He tells her all of his sorrow displaced in the trail made by the tears on his face, she goes on to remember, holding his hand and feeling her husband in him.

RB: Jing Paz


Live Fast, Die Young

Does hedonism equate living this life to the fullest? or is it the life they've written for us to follow on? In living fast, do we get enlightenment for take-out? If we dined in to get what we want, do we get it or do we get it as the crew works on however they wanted it? For we never trailed beyond the establishments, but if we do, we might just live slow and muster all the time we could ever have instead of taking the certainty of death from hedonistic take-outs.

RB: Hock Guan


Dog Outside The House

Si Bantay na naghihintay sa labas ay 'di natin kayang papasukin. Solb na siya sa tirang pagkain at lubos puso niya tayong tinuturing diyos; madali siyang paamuin. Ang nakakatuwa pa dito, kapag bibigyan natin siya ng libro, ito'y kanya lamang kakainin. 'Di naman marahil ito ang pagpapalaki natin sa kaniya kung hindi dahil ito ang kanyang katutubong ugali. Isang inutil na mapagmahal at susunod sunod sa among isang butil lamang ang pag-aalala sa hayop na kayang ihain ang kanyang buhay, sa kabila ng likas na asal nitong kayang kaya tayong dakmain at kitilin.

RB: Charlemagne Villacorte

All of Time and Space

Is all in the living mind of the human being.
(a) True
(b) False
(c) ?

RB: Ivan Fernando

Fabulousness

Me and all the Mes thinking of ME.

RB: Daniel Cross

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