3. To the man I married
By: Angela manalang Gloria
You are my earth and all the earth implies:
The gravity that ballasts me in space,
The air I breathe, the land that stills my cries
For food and shelter against devouring days.
You are the earth whose orbit marks my way
And sets my north and south, my east and west,
You are the final, elemented clay
The driven heart must turn to for its rest.
If in your arms that hold me now so near
I lift my keening thoughts to Helicon
As trees long rooted to the earth uprear
Their quickening leaves and flowers to the sun,
You who are earth, O never doubt that I
Need you no less because I need the sky!
4. The roads not taken
By: Robert frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no step had trodden black
Oh; I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
6. SAKA NA
By: Judy-Ann P. Dimafelis
Takot akong mahulog
itong damdamin sa’yo
ayaw munang umasa
at masaktan ang puso,
Ilag ako sa posibleng
Pagmamahal mo
Tama na munang
Magkaibigan tayo.
Umiiwas na mahumaling
Sa iyong mga ngiti,
Huwag muna nawang
Mahalin ang iyong titig.
Maraming ninanais
Hinahanap ang isip,
SAKA NA lang makikinig
Sa bulong ng pag-ibig….
