Nanay ni Nena (Nena’s Mother)

By Joshua A. Apolonio

Waking up early in the morning,

Four in the morning or maybe three.

Breakfast for Nena and her sibling,

A sacrificing mother can she be.

Nanay, nanay, here said Nena,

A glance from her, with a smile.

The Lost Ticket

By Joshua A. Apolonio

“Trina! Have you seen our ticket? I can’t find it here. I looked for it since I woke up 4 hours earlier. It’s already 7am and I still can’t find it.”

“No, Sandy. My goodness! Did you lose it? Don’t tell me you lost it!”

“I don’t know. You gave it to me last night at the restaurant, right? I think I put in my pocket together with the fortune cookie. Well, I’m not sure sis. Can you please just help me find it?”

“Well, we both know that tonight’s concert is the biggest concert of the year! And aside from it, that’s too expensive! I can’t miss this.”

Why Do I Hate Mathematics?

By: Joshua A. Apolonio

Most of the time, I ask myself, “Why do I hate Mathematics?” Is it because of its characteristics? Is it because of its confusing formulas and equations? Or is it because I need to memorize all of them just to understand the true meaning of Math? I think those questions will have their same answers and it will be “Yes”! First of all, what do we really mean by Mathematics? My own perception for this field of study is that they are just "combination of numbers" with different operations like those of the plus, minus, divide, and times. But, when I asked my mother regarding this topic, she told me that it is a science of numbers and their operations, interrelations, combinations, generalizations, and abstractions and of space configurations and their structure, measurement, transformations, and generalizations. Then I said,

Venus, the Second One: In which a goddess became a mistress

By: Joshua A. Apolonio

It was a very long ago, and it was the time a goddess from Mount Olympus had her love come to an end. Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, was looking for love, but no one has longer participates her powers, not even Zeus. Venus was so depressed and cried a lot of tears. Even the goddess of beauty, herself, has no longer suitors! Cupid, her son, the god of love and desire, looked at her mother eagerly. Cupid was thinking of any solution that might help Venus and can take away her frustrations.

Cupid went down to planet Earth and has searched for any person that can solve her mother’s problem. But he has searched everywhere. Left, right, up and down, he also

The Suitcase

By Joshua A. Apolonio

Dig, dig, dig a hole,

Because ‘X’ marks the spot.

Here, digging like a mole.

I’ve seen a suitcase like a pot.

There. I’ve seen a suitcase.

I can’t see anything good.

The Spoon of Prosperity

By Joshua A. Apolonio


Is this really the kind of life Filipinos have? I don’t know. Even though our family is poor, we deserve the treasure of education. My mother once told me before she died that we can no longer achieve success because of our current state. I tried to give up in the end. But, I will end up achieving no more in life than they did.

I was in elementary school when my stepmother told me to stop schooling. She told me that school is just a barrier to my life. She asked me instead of schooling is to do house chores and clean up the back yard and also the barn near our barangay together with my father for me to earn my own income. I was about to think if that kind of idea is good or not. Ever since the summer, I have been
working. Suddenly, my stepmother nagged me and has been asking me for money but I didn’t give her even a single penny.

The Boy Who Has Dreamt To Be a Woman

The Boy Who Has Dreamt To Be a Woman

By Joshua A. Apolonio

I am a boy. Yes I am.

But I don’t know who I truly am.

Being a lady or a woman perhaps,

Even in my dreams, I can be what I am.

When I dream about this, I hear silent claps.

Inside my thoughts, I’m beautiful during naps.

Steel and Magnet

By: Joshua A. Apolonio

Man will always be steel,

And some are its magnet.

But when the same gender sticks,

Some steels are easy to get.

Small steel sticks to big magnet;

Small magnet sticks to big steel;

Modern Technology Today

By: Joshua A. Apolonio

As a youth, as a Filipino citizen, I can say that I am a user of modern technology. Maybe it is impossible to believe that nobody uses modern technology today. From the word itself, “modern”, it is relating to, or characteristics of the present or the immediate past, or what we call the contemporary technologies that we use nowadays. The products of our modern technology are a great help for every individual around the globe. Modern technology made everything instant. The wide knowledge of persons who invented such things like these are applied for us to be given an easier life. What come first on our modern technologies are the electronic devices. Thanks to Michael Faraday who

Forbidden Goodbye

By: Joshua A. Apolonio

Several years of my existence;

Laughter or sadness always happens.

Thank you all my loving friends,

And also to you my dear parents.

Cars, vehicles, and motors on the hi-way,

Fast as the wind, I just passed away.

Campus Grounds

By: Joshua A. Apolonio

Seeing the clouds in the sky

Remembering who really am I.

Trees’ roots at the ground

Telling how my voice speaks so loud.

Trash at the clean floor

Saying that I’m a bit slutty whore;

A Poem for Poems

by Joshua A. Apolonio

Life has been a beauty,

I’ve realized what’s all the best.

Even I’m good or naughty,

I will still thank you, Anna Guest.

Whenever I remember Richard Cory,

I realized what I have become.

Love Irony

by Joshua A. Apolonio

Intelligent, kind, loving and hot;

This describes everything you are not.

I see your face when I am dreaming,

That’s why I always wake up screaming.

I love your face, your smile, your eyes;

Oh, I’m so good at telling lies.