89.
My 18th Leaf
Culled thee from waist height
Quaint ornamental
A type of hard grass
Some Japanese breed
Pretty “dwarf bamboo”
CapSU-Dumarao
Arancillo land
So their property
Their worker planted
It's a décor there
Third day January
Third day Twenty Twelve
Third Day of the Year
Of Water Dragon
About 4 PM
Eighth bundle of same plant
Row from TED Building
Along the path way
Side where there frat huts
Arrayed in neat line
First TED afternoon
Of this year to home
While alone walking
Under fine sunset
Bye bye for now TED!
-01/03/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
88.
My 17th Leaf
Culled thee from new plant
Obvious ‘coz house new
And height still a foot
Though can grow meter
Here it's called “pasaw”
By Ozaraga
Father – school admin
Mother – professor
Daughter –ex-classmate
They're seven members
Third day January
This day Twenty Twelve
Third day of the year
Of Water Dragon
About 12 PM
Beside bamboo fence
Outside to open
Along a path walk
Near its native gate
Aligned with same kind
Just there to have lunch
With Ma'am Diday, Angie
Ma'am Beth and others
New Year left-overs
But Anne was not there.
-01/03/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
87.
My 16th Leaf
Culled thee from nipa
Little manger roof
We call it “Belen”
By third year students
It's from a palm tree
My advisory
TED BEEd Three
Don't know who from them
But it's one of them
Who got and placed it
Third day January
Third day Twenty Twelve
Third day of the year
Of Water Dragon
About 8 AM
Roof of small manger
Back from one corner
Third years placed it there
With other decors
Character papers
Tolada of kind
The first one unrhymed
Got with two more leaves
Obtained the same day
While Xmas decors unfixed.
-01/03/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
The roll of the waves hides the arcs of their backs.
The shoal of porpoises are feeding on squid.
Feasting amongst them on cephalopod snacks
Are green-scaled dragons that choose to be hid.
They hide from whalers and their brutal harpoons,
While they stay in the ocean for most of life's times,
Except times when they roam the nearby sand dunes
To covet Marsh Radishes and the wild limes.
These dragons don't fly, since they're aquatic sorts.
Like Nessie in Scotland, they wish to be free.
Some people catch a glimpse, and some hear a snort,
But rarely, since mostly they're way out to sea.
DRAGON ZODIAC ZONES
If not for this contest
I would not have comb out astrology
But, I wanted to please Nette
So, I sat down, investigate my Zodiac sign.
Water dragon, that is me!
My daughter calls me “rooster cuts off in its head!”
Fits the character of the dragon:
Full of energy, free-spirited, eccentric, dauntless
Flamboyant, colorful, passionate, stubborn, powerful.
Twenty four hours in a day, not enough for the dragon
Multi -tasking is the game
Clinic job 5 days a week, networking on a weekend
Taking care of love ones,
Poetry by night, unusual exciting phenomena.
Water dragon
I am free and uninhibited
Throw me in a cage: lock me, chain me, restrain me with all your might
But I fly with the cage, fearlessly, magically
My ferocious wings soar to the unknown!
The Westerners want to slay me, to kill me is futile
My intense power bounce back, my fiery mouth devastating!
The Orientals love me, my pictures hang in their abode, my body girates in parades
Dragon, I am
Deliverer of good fortunes!
Dalila Agtani
6/25/11
Entered in a contest sponsored by Nette Onclaud
Name of the contest: Zodiac Zones
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