To Dream Once More

By: Mikejuha
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I’ve always thought that life is full of dreams
And I’m a dreamer, spinning dreams of dreams
In every journey when I shall stumble, fall
I’d always wake up and shall start it all.


I dream that I shall see a place so far away
To search for destiny and to find my way
My feet may fall down, but my hopes are high
My strength may falter, but I shall try and try.


And in that place where dreamers dream to seek
I’ll find the way and climb the highest peak
Though the way is long and the peak, too tall
But my will is strong, and I shall pass them all.


If in this journey, I’ll grieve with every parting
If I alone shall bear the pains of my own making
If must I cross the seas to find a better future
Then let me suffer on that distant shore.


And on my shores across the hundred-seas
My love shall sing me weeping melodies
I’ll cry a tear, but let my heart bleed deeply
Just give me sorrow, or give me destiny.


And when this dream shall lead my life in vain
I’ll find the way and set it out again
But when in death, I’ll find the way no more
Then I shall wake up, and start to dream once more!

Two Poems

 he who hungers for fire

he who hungers for fire

Self excommunicate

with closeted desire

but when Night incarnate

descends with mortals walk

out slinks locked Self to stalk

he who hungers for fire

with furtive glances seeks

sins to expire perspire

the sultry closet reeks

nether fires between thighs

penance in whimpered sighs

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in hora mortis

abiding, Time crept by languid and silent.

trudging down winding paths

of remembrance and forgetfulness

(through) xanthous wounds etched

in the screaming sky.

it slithered and writhed,

heaved, quivered, and pulsed.

laden with memories of the past,

of lovelorn lovers languishing in misery.

evening has come.

Two Poems

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Author's Note:

May Poll po tayo tungkol kay kuya Rom kung kapani-paniwala ba kung mabubuhay pa siya. Marami ang nagsabi na mabubuhay pa siya - hmmmmm bias naman yung mga sagot nila, hehehe. Kasi sa tingin ko talaga di na siya mabubuhay eh... lol!

At kapag nabuhay man, hindi na kapani-paniwala!

Pero... pero... pero... huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu!

Abangan!

-Mikejuha-

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A Student’s English Heartache
By: Mikejuha

I wish somebody helps me
Of things that puzzle me
Like words of diff’rent meanings
Same sounds but diff’rent spellings
Like “sail” and “sail” and “sea” and “see”;
The “mail” and “male” and “flea” and “flee”!

My teacher says it’s easy
But plurals can be crazy
Some words just end in “s”
But others end in “-es”
And worse – “feet”, “oxen”, “mice”
“Alumnae”, “larvae”, “data”, “spies”!

I wish my tense were right
Of verbs that I must write
But verbs differ in form
To rules, some don’t conform
Like “set-set-set”, and “run, ran, run”
Eat-ate-eaten, go-went-gone”!

Another thing that bugs my mind,
To spell the words, O I’m so blind!
And when I try to think about
The words like “out” should be spelled “AWT”
And when instead of writing “knee”
Why don’t we just write “N-E-E”!

You must have known how it feels like
To study things one doesn’t like
Especially when teachers nag,
You’ll never learn to use your tag
Like it is raining, aren’t we?
“Oh, yes they didn’t can’t you see!”

One trouble is this usage
I like its sound but I’m no sage
Coz there are words I do not know
And couldn’t use them right or so
Like “May I dance, Miss over you?”
Oh, well, yes centerly, thank you!”

This subject-verb agreement
I’ve learned with disagreement
With words like “crowd” or “group”, or “class”
We must use verbs like “is” or “was”
But why in this, “The crowd are stunned...”
My teacher I don’t understand!

And there’s the other English,
My teacher says it’s British
It spells these words “theatre”, “centre”
But wrong if you spell “carpentre!”
And for its grammar, teacher why,
It says, “I’m handsome, aren’t I?”

This pronunciation headache
Has given me a heartbreak
While some words I don’t understand,
My teacher forces me to stand
I say, “BURGOYS”, she says “BURZH-WA”
The whole class echoes “HA!HA!HA!”

So please somebody help me please
Of things I couldn’t learn with ease
If rules were only easy
Then I should learn so easily
But all these things have messed me up
Somebody please... come pull me up!

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The Teacher’s Reply to the
Student’s English Heartache
By: Mikejuha

I’ll help you, I’m your teacher
Of things that aren’t clear
Those words which sound the same
The name is homonym
If you should want to learn them
Take note, remember them.

The “plurals” are just easy
But maybe you’re just lazy
In many plurals you add “s”
In others you add “es”
Few others are exceptions
If you recall my explanations.

Be careful with your tense
When you write down your sentence
Confusing verbs to use
We list them you can choose
To learn them you must write
And then re-write, re-write!

If spelling bugs your mind
Just write, don’t be that blind
Because you’ll never learn
Those words of your concern
If you just figure out
That you can’t spell them out!

I don’t intend to nag you
I only want to teach you
Because if I don’t bug you
Next year again I’ll see you
So for your right tag speak it up
If wrong, your mouth, please shut it up!

Don’t bother with this usage
You’ll learn though you’re no sage
Just use your words with sense
And add your common sense
Don’t use these if you’re sane
“Dance on”, “dance over”, “dance within”!

This subject-verb agreement
Has caused us disagreement
The hard rules you consider
You take note, study harder
And never disagree
I’ll flunk you, you will see!

About the other English
Forget it if you wish
We do not need to study
If things will make us crazy
And never spell this – “teachre”
It’s such a stupid “answre”!

If to pronounce is hard
You practice very hard
You practice day and night
And find that you’ll learn quite
If people laugh at you
Just smile and say, “Thank you!”

So here I’m in your rescue
Of things keep bugging you
Those rules will be so easy
Just study don’t be lazy
Or all these things will suck you up
If you depend and won’t stand up!

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Two Poems

By: Mikejuha
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The Teacher and the Students

The teacher and the students
They drag the class between them
The teacher lays the rules
The students just ignore them
The teacher teaches many things
The students just forget them.

The teacher sets the deadlines
The students will postpone them
The teacher gives the grades
The students won’t believe them
The teacher records scores
The students tampered them.

The teacher keeps his patience
His lessons and his tact
Some students, their indifference
They like to interrupt
But when he calls them up
They never will stand up.

At times the class is dormant
A silence all they keep
The teacher feels ecstatic
The students feel as deep
But when the teacher speaks
The students fall asleep.

The teacher does his best
But students show no interest
The teacher has to preach
That students, “never cheat!”
The students, they admit
“We better cheat, than to repeat!”

The teacher’s loads alone he bears
Frustrations, anger, pain and all
He knows no student ever cares
But when he feels he has it all
He throws the blames
The students catch them all!


The Students’ Reply to the Teachers

We students and our teachers
We’ve built a gap between us
We know we follow rules
The teachers just don’t trust us
We study many things
The teachers never ask us.

We do observe the deadlines
The teachers never mind them
We always take our grades
They hurt but we accept them
We always ask our scores
But never tampered them!

We students have our problems
Like lessons hard to catch up
The teachers sometimes know them
They like to call us up
If we don’t know the answer
Then how can we stand up?

At times we feel so lazy
So tired and even weary
The teachers are just busy
To force and make us study
But how can we be snappy
If the lessons make us sleepy?

We students do our best
When teachers teach with interest
There’s no more need to preach
That students, “Never cheat!”
If the lessons we don’t get
The teachers will repeat!

The burdens teachers have
We hope won’t make them give up
We students also have
Expectations to cope up
But teachers shall we have
A way to bridge our gap?