Best Bohol Poems

The Chocolate Hills of Bohol

Ancient as creation, true natural wonders,
the Chocolate Hills of Bohol
teem with singularly exotic flora and fauna,
fanciful ferns and big-eyed tarsiers, peculiar...

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R-ise of the sun begins, 
U-nderneath the blue sky; 
T-uesday twenty-first February
H-as met the cloud up high.

A-llow the rain to stop, 
N-ight chill fades away;...

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..they swirl in swarms across 
the darkening 
skyline,

spiralling round the huge tree 
like a coiling 
vine;


they snuggle tight for the 
night at the 
canopy,

lansijang birds...

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White waves roll, 
      frolic and cavort 
      across bluish space

where Sea and Sky 
...

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The wiggling whiff of smoke stings my eyes, 

         so I try to stoke back to life...

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"Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, 
hindi makakarating sa paroroonan".
(A person who does not remember where he came from 
will never reach his destination).
Filipino proverb.

Gift me...

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Surrounded by tranquil turquoise waters,
Guarded on sides by oceans three,
In the east by the Pacific,
On the south by the Celebes Sea,
And on the west by...

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Fittingly dubbed “The Pearl of the Orient Seas”
an archipelago of 7,641 islands, the Philippines
majestically sits in vast waters between
Pacific Ocean and South China Sea.

Named after...

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S-cribe
H-appily
A-uthors
R-ighteous
L-ines
E-mploying
E-xcellent
N-atal

N-ote's
E-uphoric
S-alutation
S-o
I-nspiring
A-crostic

B-rings
O-ne
H-armony
O-f
L-ove

Topic: Birthday of Sharleen Nessia B. Bohol (January 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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rain showers the land
displays knolls of green grasses
tarsiers free park play

sun shimmers brilliance
upon brown mounds verdure lair
big chocolate queue

(c) Olive Eloisa
11:54am
June 19, 2014

***Chocolate Hills is...

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Treasured land splendor and glory
Pearl of the Orient Seas
Soldiers of known most emotional people
Loving and hospitable in patriot's blood line
The secret of velvet Three Stars...

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P ain   devastation engraved on townsfolk’s faces
A s  vile earthquake raked homes, claimed lives;
N othing but trauma lashed  this chaotic scene
D...

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In waves and bursts 
  of exhilarating jubilation,

    as among long-lost friends 
      meeting in a...

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Tens of thousands of tiny wings 
                  ...

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The Philippines, with its strategic location 
at the crossroads of the Pacific Ocean, 
and the South China Sea, 
is the Pearl of the Orient, 
the...

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