TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS PAGE

Prose……………………………………………………………………………………………… 23

Last Word……………………………………………………………………………………. 25

The Lost Island……………………………..……………………………………………… 27

Never Give Up………………………………………………………..……………………. 29

Husssh…Pssst…and Think…………………………………………..………………… 30

Photos……………………………………………………………….………………………………. 31

Glance…………………………………………………………………………………………. 33

Alone……………………………………………………..……………………………………. 33

Hang and Think……………………………………………………………………………. 34

Gossip…………………………………………………………………….…………………… 34

Walks In Summer………………………………………………………..……………… 35

Useful Trash………………………………………………………………………………. 35

Wither………….……………………………………………………………………………. 36

Advice…………………………………………………………….…………………………… 36

Silhouette……………………………………………………………………..…………… 37

Remain………………………………………………………………………………………… 37

Moment……………………………………………………………………….……………… 38

Serene…………………………………………………………………………………………. 38

Editorial Staff………………………………………………………………………………… 39

PREFACE

The cover page of this Folio shows the Wiste-

ria, a flowering plant that deals with many poignant

themes and illustrious symbolism. It is a magnificent

plant with extraordinary growth, abundant beauty and

intoxicating fragrance. Its vine signifies intricate twin-

ing. All this features can be compared to human’s life

signifying Long-life, Immortality, Love, Grace,

Honor, Memory, Patience, Endurance, Longevity,

Exploration, Creative Expansion, Releasing Burdens,

Duality of Love, and Victory over Hardship. There-

fore, it totally expresses the complexity and beauty of

human’s life.

-Ludz-

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS PAGE

Cover………………………………………………………………………………………………. i

Preface……………………………………………………………………………………………. ii

Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………………. iii

Poems……………………………………………………………………….……………………. 1

Moments of Insanity……………………………………………………………………. 3

Having Someone Unexpectedly……………………………..……………………. 4

Last Forever…………………………………………………………..……………………. 5

Relationship…………………………………………………………..……………………. 7

Moments……………………………………………………………….……………………. 8

You………………………………………………………………………..……………………. 9

Forbidden Love……………………………………………………..……………………. 10

A Sinful Happiness………………………………………………………………………. 11

Wine……………………………………………………………………..……………………. 12

Mustard Seed………………………………………………………..……………………. 13

Take Me to the Beach…………………………………………………………………. 14

The Darkness………………………………………………………………………………. 16

Your Laugh…………………………………………………………….……………………. 17

Beats……………………………………………………………………..……………………. 18

Purest Love…………………………………………………………………………………. 19

Why……………………………………………………………………….……………………. 20

Sunset…………………………………………………………………………………………. 21

POEMS

HAVING SOMEONE UNEXPECTEDLY

(LOPEZ, Leodegario A. Jr.)

When I see you,

How glad I am,

I felt so shocked and was like a statuette

But this sensation I have, was just not true

Coz I knew that it’s distantly possible to

Come true

But, every time I lost you

There’s a feeling in me that I don’t know,

So unexpected, and so tenuously to be true,

Coz I’m just a poor persona that fantasise you

This feeling I have was so astonishing

Coz, the time I met you, I haven’t expect this from you

But you come to my life with no hesitation

How thankful I am having you.

Despite my sexual category you let me love you

Though, in the eyes of man it’s wrong!

But you prove to me, that any individual regardless

Of gender has the right to love and to be love.

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MOMENT OF INSANITY

(Ramelo, Antonio)

Your mind is river in dried-up beds

Your voice of crow in shrilling tune,

Your words are rough as granule sand,

Your hands are tong in loosened joints,

Your deeds are waves of storm in dock,

Your life is paint of darkened clouds,

Then tempest too came in abound.

But here I am I all my might,

Cuddling your world around my arms,

I am in quest for all the ways,

Yet seeing you is more than lights.

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LAST FOREVER

(COMANDANTE, Roselyn)

Love have I known as clouds known the skies

In lush of rainfall and in summer fall

In clouds filled? With sunshine, brighten each

day

I have watched waterfalls and rainbow that

Arises on

When the rainbow is in sight

I’ll see eight colors so bright

And this I found-such lovely things

To all the ways of love, that I’ve never

Known before

Each passing days, the days passing by

My flames of love doesn’t change for you

For eyes before my eyes, blooms as a

Flower

Even your smile, gives me hope and

Strength….

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MOMENTS

(NABOYA, Lenny)

How I wish I could bring back time

When we were both together singing the

Same song,

Talking about anything

Sharing secrets, hopes and dreams,

Before the clouds turned gray

And the rain started to drop

I lost tour grip and saw it drifting apart

Until I saw your fear strained face,

I tried to pull you back but you refused

To reached on my hand

Keeping me longing until you say,

It’s time to say goodbye.

I was hurt but maybe you were right

Walking separately was better than ruin,

The memories that serves as the

Moments of your love.

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You are with me that made my day brighter

In times of need, you’re at my back

In times of sorrow, you give me pleasure

I shall not feel tired

To hear your laughter in my heart like

A song

Feel in my heart your nearness, fine and

Crystals

I won’t leave you, till the last breath

Of my life.

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RELATIONSHIP

(EGANO, Siegfred Arian)

For all I know

Relationship is rose

To be cultivated, to be creed,

To be protected from parasites

Relationship is crystal glass

To be cleaned all days

To be wiped-out

and till shimmering lights

Relationship is color of nature

Sometimes summer and then spring

And then winter, and then fall

But anyway it’s what counts most of all.

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WINE

(GAMBA, Judy Ann)

I love the tips of its bottle tip

Just like the tips of your sweet lips

I love its companionship

I loved its insanity

Just like on how you drive me crazy

How I will be sober? If the alcohol

Is you?

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YOU

(CULAS, Evangeline)

Your smiles make me flutter

Your stare feels me shiver

The presence of you, made me complete

And sense the tune of my heart beat

Beating so fast,

Deeply infatuated with someone gives me courage

To bear and to enjoy love is a privileged of someone

A promise of love is a souvenir

That you cannot let it disappear

Imagine that you were in paradise

The beauty of love made me more alive

Land of passion, love and foolishness,

Power of love is not darkness, yet kindness.

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FORBIDDEN LOVE

(ESTRELLA, Argie)

Around, all around in this silver bar

The dark memories gather

My dread grows as the dagger of

Your word falls against my naked soul

It slays me and darkly my

Life-blood drips

To the wicked earth that is my prison

In a strange and terrible glee

Cry out why?

While death shadows takes his unwilling

Hand

Now alone in this metal bars

Crying out for mercy and full of regrets

The tears that fall upon my bleeding eyes

I do that all because of this forbidden love.

A SINFUL HAPPINESS

(SHYRA, Lucencio)

Every time your right beside me You turn my sad world into a sweet melody My life that full of misery You bring hope to each passing day

The blissfulness of your personality Encourages me that everything will be okay The sweetness of every word you utter All of this is worth cherished for

Our cherishing moments Make makes me deems that everything right Though my life was tied and bounded In solemn vow and commitment

I know the felicity I feel Is nothing but just temporary Though this happiness is a sin But I am with the other guy again.

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THE DARKNESS

(MASINAS, Resalyn)

Darkness describes death and sorrow

And it covers the hope of tomorrow

As it always be a part

That keeps the pain insides one heart

Darkness can be as best as weapon

Like a power and be an option

Can be a tool in times of trouble

May ruins life of all

Darkness may exist sometimes

And others may brought with some price

Those hold their soul like so tight

Who shun the right and ignore its light

Darkness has its powerful side

Like scars that you can never hide

Just step out before it’s too late

And be one that makes you great.

MUSTARD SEED

(ECHON, Mary Val)

Slender beams of light enter

This darkened prison as I kneel,

Always fearful always sorrowful

Frozen here I’m waiting

Angelic forms wrought in panes of

Glass loom as dust,

Dances in the air

Forming an image in my mind

Penetrating my shamed soul.

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TAKE ME TO THE BEACH

(PINEDA, Marienell)

The fresh air along the shore.

Roughness of the sand I used to walk just a floor.

The sound of the waves I have to hear.

It seems like it’s the sweetest songs of Bieber.

You can shout out all your pains in there.

No one can ever hear all your life’s fear.

It just keep on listening so everything you share

And immediately banishes by air.

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I wanna lay down at the shore all day.

Savoring the moment and the sun’s ray.

Not minding how I turned to black , they say.

Just enjoy, and push the worries away.

To someone I’ll spend my life with on the day for-

ward.

Take me to the beach and you’re my safeguard.

We’re going to witness every splash of the sea water.

In every rock at the shore that scatter.

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YOUR LAUGH

(GERILLA, Ma. Sandy)

I wish I could hear it every day,

Rhythm of that sound makes me feel

crazy

It resonates into my deepest thought

Your life give me full of hope

Day and night I heard it from you

A fairy tale that made me dream

Stones that gave me extreme

Beautiful creatures in another realm

Sweet tune lingering in my ear

The only thing that I just want to hear

The thing that I only have

Is this feeling of your life.

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WHY (CAIDOY, Syra Lyn)

Everytime I glanced at your vague eyes,

Feels like I’m stabbed fifteen times.

Everytime I hold your hand,

Feels like I’m thorned all the time.

Everytime I looked at your smile,

Feels like I’m hit by a truck and terribly die.

But how can you see the broken pieces,

Of me when everytime I feel unworthy.

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BEATS

(Kempis, DANICA)

The joyful sound I hear

The louder it came to so near

It cast away my fear

And I begin to cheer

Here comes the beat

His walking with happy feet

Our eyes began to meet

The faster my heart beat

One day he ask my name

And then we walk in fame

My heart before in pain

And now it speaks so plain.

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PUREST LOVE

(VILLASANTE, Roxanne)

Sighs and cheers are always felt

For fighting love on earth

It may take loose around your grip

But think above his always great!

Sometimes you’re in a solitude

In company of frosty air

But think above, his everywhere

Gives warmth of love and showered care!

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SUNSET

(BAYALAS, Elvira)

Of this daylights’ passing,

Come with memories still raining,

On the distance skyline,

I looked into the sundown view.

Be guided of its reds and oranges hue.

But this intensified my pain,

The sun with its last breath,

Sank beneath the horizon.

As when you wore before my eyes,

Slowly fading under the endless skies.

Like the daylight, meaning its end

The sun bids adieu to the clouds,

Crossing into the lines.

Leaving me and the heavens mourn,

Like when the sun went down from

mourn.

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PROSE

Last Word

Lenny Naboya

One day a girl, Cassi-

dy, who is sixteen years old,

came home from school in a

very bad mood. She had a

fight with her boyfriend that

day and it hadn’t turned out

well at all.

‘’Cassidy!” her mom yelled.

“What are you doing? You

know to do your chores when you get home! And now

you’re late!”

“Coming, Mom!” Cassidy yelled getting up and stomp-

ing towards the kitchen. “What?” she snapped as her mom

warned, “or you’ll be grounded.”

“Whatever.” Cassidy began to throw around the dishes

in the sink, trying to make as much noise as she possibly

could. A plate cracked and lacerated her hand Cassidy

cursed.

“Cassidy!” her mom exclaimed. “How dare you use that

language! Go to your room! Now!”

“NO!” Cassidy yelled, throwing down the towel she was

using to wipe the blood off her hand.

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She pondered as she watched the silver ripples of

the shore. She looked at the horizon. The island, where she

and the old sailor had drifted, was lost in her sight now as

she saw the misty fog of early morn covering her sight to

the island. She felt the old sailor’s hand in her shoulder and

he looked at her in repentance. Those eyes were asking for

forgiveness. She hated the old sailor, and she must be hated

him, but why she gave her a sudden smile on her lips? Sud-

denly she remembered the old man’s advice when she was

on the other island. “I cannot tell you what is right and

wrong for that matter. Look and follow your heart.” This

made her a grip on the old sailor’s hand. Not so tight, not so

loose.

The two of them stared back to the horizon. The fog of

the blue basin started to deplete now. They saw from afar the

island

where

they

had

drift- ed,

and

dis-

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“Say ‘no’ one more time and see what happened? Her

mom said in frown. She looked furious. “Sure!” Cassidy said

sarcastically.

“How dare you!” Her mother slapped her face and Cassi-

dy shrank back staring incredulously at her mom. She had

never hit Cassidy before.

“I hate you!” Cassidy scream before running out of the

house.

“Cassidy! Get back here!” Her mom exclaimed running

after her.

“Leave me alone!” Cassidy screamed, running across the

street. “I hate you!” she screamed again. She continued run-

ning until she heard the sound of screeching tires and

scream. She turned around, hoping that it wouldn’t be what

she’d thought. People were hurriedly crowding around Cassi-

dy’s mother who was now lying in the middle of the street, in

a pool of blood gushing from her head. “No!!!” Cassidy

screamed, running over and pushing through everyone to

kneel by her mom. “Oh no, No!!!” Her mom wasn’t moving

and breathing anymore. She’s dead.

Cassidy tripped back her head and wailed to the sky, sob-

bing so hard. She couldn’t believe, the last words she had spo-

ken to her mother were “I HATE YOU”

The Lost Island

Argie Estrella

A ship sank in a storm. Five survivors scrambled aboard the

two lifeboats. The young woman and the old man were in one boat,

and the woman’s fiancé and her best friend on the other boat. During

the storm the two boats were separated. The boat, where the woman

was riding, had washed ashore in an island and was wrecked.

On the next, day the weather was cleared. The woman in all

her leverage tried to find her fiancé but her search was all in vain.

She didn’t find him. In a distance she saw another island. Hoping to

find her fiancé there, she begged to the old sailor to repair the boat

and row her to the other island she saw. The sailor agreed in a condi-

tion that she should have sleep with him at night.

While distraught, she went to a nearby old man, who she knew

by chance, for an advice. “I cannot tell you what is right and wrong

for that matter.” He said. “Look and follow your heart.” the old man

added. While confused and desperate, she agreed to the sailor’s con-

dition.

The next morning, the sailor fixed the boat, and rowed her to

the other island. When they reached the shore, she jumped out of the

boat as she saw her fiancé from afar. She ran up to him and gave him

a warm hug.

She started crying as she told him what had happened be-

tween her and the old sailor. However, she was shocked to hear him

confessed about the sudden affair he and her best friend had com-

mitted during their isolation in the island. She wanted to be in rage

but it felt her like no reason to do. She pushed him away and said

nothing as she left him with her girl best friend.

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Never Give Up

Elvira Bayalas

There is a young man who is dead broke and unable to find a work, leaving his fami-ly in dire straits. Because of many problems that he was un-able to cope with, he climbed to the roof of the twenty-story building. He stepped off the

edge and fell to the ground.

It is sad to hear such story, that someone chose to end his life because of the thought that it was the best way to scape his life’s problems.

Adulthood, no doubt can be awful with numerous challenges lining up like ants. Life is carpeted with trials and tribulations of all kinds. We are always confronted with manifold problems to which we felt like no absolute solutions and no one could help us. We struggle. We experience dark times that bring us sense of hopelessness.

The main reason why we sometimes fail to solve our problems is that we easily give up trying to find the solution. Difficulties and obstacles sometimes overwhelmed us. However, St. Paul put in order to overcome them, we must “fight the good fight”, and we must en-dure hardships. We must be strong and tough in the middle of the storm.

Sometimes, we wait for someone to come along and make things happen for us. We failed to exert effort to work out the prob-lem we have. Though sometimes we may not able to see a light in the midst of darkness, we should keep moving and be still.

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Husssh… Pssst... and Think

Ramelo, Antonio

Many of us live in happiness of intervening and

minding other people’s life. We give time in gossiping

and laughing the faults of others. One more thing, and

for the worst, we mock others in the happiest ways we

want. Now you surely at the verge of being hypocrite if

you deny this act.

Its innate and a part of human’s life that person

intervenes other person’s life. We are born and meant to

become intervener to have the courage to talk and to

give our perspectives and stands. However, we always

end up exploiting this innate capacity to ridicule, de-

grade and defame our fellow-men based on the intended

and unintended bad and abhorring acts.

For a person busy of minding other people’s life,

it is true for him to often not give a piece of time to shut

– up and contemplate for awhile. Have you think about

yourself before bushing other people? Aren’t you com-

mitted erroneous acts? Aren’t you have flaws in life?

Think of it, no one is perfect. So, look to the left, and

look to the right, then husssh… pssst… and think.

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AloneAloneAlone

witherwitherwither

AdviceAdviceAdvice

By: Roxanne Villasantte

By: Antonio Ramelo By: Syra Lyn Caidoy

GLANCEGLANCEGLANCE By: Roselyn Comandante

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Hang and ThinkHang and ThinkHang and Think

gossipgossipgossip Useful trashUseful trashUseful trash

Walks in SummerWalks in SummerWalks in Summer

By: Argie Estrella

By: Elvira Bayalas

By: Rezalyn Masinas By: Leodegario Lopez

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Silhouette Silhouette Silhouette

RemainRemainRemain

By: Marinell Peñida

By: Danica Kempis

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MomentMomentMoment

SereneSereneSerene

By: Mary Val Echon

By: Evageline Culas

EDITORIAL STAFF

EDITOR IN CHIEF: RAMELO, Antonio S.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR: CAIDOY, Syra Lyn

LITERARY EDITOR: BAYALAS,Elvira

NEWS EDITOR: LOPEZ, Leodegario A. Jr.

CIRCULATION MANAGER: GERILLA, Ma. Sandy

PHOTOGRAPHERS: 1. ECHON, Mary Val

2. GAMBA, Judy Ann

LAY-OUT ARTISTS: 1. EGANO, Seigfred Arian

2. ESTRELLA, Argie

CONTRIBUTORS:

LUCENCIO, Shyrah KEMPIS, Danica

COMANDANTE, Roselyn PINEDA, Mareinell

MASINAS, Rezalyn CULAS, Evangeline

VILLASANTE, Roxanne NABOYA, Lenny

ADVISER:

GALLA, Shiela Marie