PHILIPPINE PROGRESS
● Present Problems. Graft and corruption, popularity of incompetent politicians, and poverty.
● My Vision. Good leaders, jobs for all, quick removal of incompetent politicians, and economic development.
● Steps to Take. Educational reform, job creation, and the support of local industries.
THE PHYSICIST
By Rafael Shakespeare
I walked up to the lecture-room,
To hear from the physicist,
Who said he had a new report,
Waited I did for 30 minutes,
And then he came,
With a book in hand,
He presented his new idea,
With all the strings and stuff,
My mind went into cosmic chaos,
Yet the lecture was informing,
And as he did stepout, stepout I did.
THE HAIKUS OF FOOD
By Rafael Shakespeare
Food goes mouth to tube,
Faldown into the stomach,
Drop to intestine.
Turny small tube it’s,
The small intestine, then the,
Food gosround large one.
Then the poop dropdown,
Flush, flush, down into the pipe,
The sewer it is.
(1) Eagle is a plane,
Flying very high up there.
It is flying free.
(2) Eagle is a car,
Moving fast up in the air,
Faster than its friends.
(3) Eagle is a cloud,
Liquid falling down from it.
It is eagle poop.
THE HOUSE OF MERCADO
Just as a meal is full of food,
with meat being the backbone of the meal,
the rice being soft, tender, and chewy,
and the vegetables being smaller but just as delicious,
My father is our family’s meat, leading our family,
My mother is the rice, soft and tender and caring,
And I am the vegetable, smaller than the others but just as caring.
THE RIME RAFAEL:
A Newe Poetick Stanza
● Meter: Trochaic tetrameter (lines 1, 2, 3); trochaic trimeter (lines 4, 5)
● Lines: 5
● Rhyme: aabcb
WATERFALL: IN RIME RAFAEL
By Rafael Shakespeare
Water falleth in the river,
Green grass seen? It is not winter.
Tall trees I find very pretty,
With leaves falling downwards,
Creatures hath no pity.
WATERFALL TRIMOVEMENT
HAIKU
Water falls,
Into the river.
‘Round green grass.
BALLAD
Water falls into the placid river,
Around the green grass, and,
The tall trees, with creatures all around it,
That’s the river and land.
LIMERICK
Water falls into the blue river,
With green grass and tall trees together.
It flows very gently,
Around the tall oak tree,
With creatures of the land around her.
