OUR POETRY (3PISMP TESL 2021)

Life in the Forest

Toad
Small, moist
Jumping, swimming, croaking,
Prey, cacophonous, quiet, predator,
Slithering, waiting, biting,
Long, scaly,

Snake

by Khairul Izwan

Li fe i s l i k e wa ter

IF CONTAINED TO BE
SHUSHED

LIKE THE CONTAINER.
IF FREED TO GUSH
LIKE A STREAM.
IF CHILLED FREEZE
LIKE ICE.
IF BOILED VAPORIZE
LIKE STEAM.
LIFE IS
LIKE WATER

AND THERE'S NO LIFE
WITHOUT WATER

by, Aishah

Beach now

At the end of my sleeves,
Is a beach.

At the end of my eyes,
Is a beach.

I wiped out the water, flowing on both
cheeks,
Cause of the warm bubbles that pervade.

I put my feet in the waves of memories,
It's so cold, enough to freeze my heart.

Oh beach,
I'm swept away again by the waves that
sway around my eyes.

- Fatin Huda

Fate

Today it rained,
Walked under umbrella,

With wet memories.
Years have passed, and I keep staying,
I experienced endless sadness but never leave.
Staying away, and loving you greatly.

I’d wait through the lifetime.
I spend years waiting for returned birds.
I never regret and let no one replace you.

Hope we’ll figure out the past.
Along the way I watch flowers bloom and

wither.
Maybe we part because we’ll meet again.

Tears turn into clouds, and rain drops.
When everything works out.

I’ll enjoy a free life with you, for a thousand
years.

BY: BALQ
ISCMR

MEA AQUA

BY: FARAH NATHASHA





Within the thousand secrets sealed,
It gives you peace and it heals,
Let you live up free.


Within the trust that lessen,
It gives you place of pleasant,
Provide feelings you never imagine.


My rendezvous, blue-skies and epiphany,
Thanks to be a part of me,
Let us stay and still.

you, nature and us

Snake plants could live for weeks without water, Amidst the pitch black canvas of stars,

But I cannot stay away from you even for a meter, You are still my sun who light up my life.

These plants preferred for the forgetful type, The sun you are, I do not need any binoculars,

But our love is not just like any stereotype. So flaming hot with six packs, can I be your wife?





Intertwining my hands with yours, Just like the breathtaking view of Machu Picchu,

It feels like the world is ours, The cute grin that you always wear glued my eyes.

Just like clownfish and sea anemone, Ouh, can I just say how much I micchu,

We completed each other like no one. Back to the proposal, please say yes.





We might have not seen any megalodon, The world happiest animal is Quokkas,

But you never the one to abandon, And the happiest human would be me,

Let's make up our constellation, Let's celebrate us with meat and paprikas,

So that our story would have continuation. If you think I'm the one for your lifetime.

Syamimi Sapia'e

FOREST

by: nadhirah

Maybe,
Just one day,
Somewhere out there,
A person who is willing to leave
in the forest of my thoughts

Till then,
One fine hopeful day,
I shall tend the growing forest,
And I hope that I will be a marvel,
At the branches of the trees,
That will paint the sky

Human Nature

BY HADDIRAH ATHIRAH

It is a part of human nature,
Either to living creatures

Or even the non-living things,
Having it,
Holding it,

As disproportionately valuable,
Filling the empty hole in your heart,

Finding you,
The missing soul.



However,
Beware,
Having it too much may drag you into the
deep abyss,
You may be blinded,
Without losing your sight,
And missing one cell of your brain
As a return.
Have it,
Have it moderately,



Have your love in your life
As it is the essence of a human being.

TESL 3

Are you

Living?


WRITTEN BY: AININ SOFEENA

Are you living?
or are you just breathing?



Are you dancing?
or are you just moving?



Are you listening?
or are you just hearing?



Are you communicating?
or are you just talking?



Are you hugging?
or are you just touching?



Your perception determines the meaning of your life.



So,
are you really living?
or are you just breathing?

The Smile
from

The Sun

The smile from the sun,
The brightness that light up my days

The colour that warms my heart
Waking me up for my journey to start



The smile from the sun
Giving lives to the nature
Bringing the hope for the people
Tirelessly shines for the world

NUR ALIF FARHAN

THE HUMAN CONDITION

NURUL HUDA MUHAMAD NOH

The human condition
comprises the essence of humankind.
Perturbed thinking,
bizarre feelings,
and contrastive acting.
But it's alright
because we are humans.

The human condition
The insecurities I possess
thinking that I don't belong anywhere.
It's all horrible when a beauty standard exists.
Society axes on the pointed nose,
perfect skin, and skinny legs.

The human condition
Odd feelings of being destined with somebody
regardless of who they are and what they like,
saddens me to swallow just one thing.
There is no such thing as fate
for everything that happens
is an absurd coincidence. The human condition
The scars I have
from the past, they say
All thanks to you
I'll never act the same way, ever.
In everything I do, I see you
Because the misery you caused
has traumatically reshaped my entire life.


The human condition
It is the nature of our lives.
Just then, it dawned on me;
It is a blessing
to be a unique creature on earth.
Having to feel countless emotions
and healing from toxicity.
I love my condition now
and will eternally be.

OUR NATURE HAD ENOUGH!

Days by day,
Our nature shed its tears,

Why? Because of us!
We turn our beautiful nature,
Into a lifeless land with nothing more.



Look outside, what do you see?
Is it good or bad? We know the truth,

If polluting is all we do,
our nature becomes an empty core.



We must preserve our nature!

Gather our hands,
Those hands can change our nature’s fate,

We have to believe in ourselves,
Every effort is priceless.



Without the beauty of nature,
Our life is powerless, discouraged
Now, joining our hands together
We could survive and save our nature

Way to go!

syazwa nur emelin

Nature's Wrath

Humans,
For you to fear us years ago is such a blessing,
You behave so well,
While knowing your place,
Now everything changes by your malice,
Our roles reversed.

Humans,
For us to fear you now is a curse,
You call them natural disasters,
Our fear turn into wrath,
And our wrath seizes everything away.

Humans,
You ruin us and blame us,
For the curse that you cannot escape.
Can't you see, human?
You can never control our wrath.
So humans, please be kind.

-Aqila Nazhurah binti Zabidi,
TESL 3

An open space Spa
Where the sod laid beneath the sun
There the seed was planted and it grew

But not like roses do ce

There were thorns, but they stung

There were leaves, but they sagged

There were buds, but they shied

And there laid me

Wilting

An open space

Where the sod laid beneath the crying clouds

There the shoot was pierced and it grew

But not like bushes do

There were creatures, but they disappeared

There were fruits, but they rotted

There were flowers, but they stunted

And there laid me

Stalling

A secluded space
Where the sod is laying with mulch and spring fairies
There the stalk standing and it’s growing
Not like the Ivies
There are morphos helping me flying
With my petals spreading bright

HANIS HAFIZAH BINTI HELMI (TESL3)

GETAWAY

Nature.
The perfect choice for a

getaway,
Leaving all the unsolved

problems behind,
Enjoying view with the
company of the breeze,
Gaining more passion to

unwind,
Before going back to the

reality.

NADZIRAH MANSOR

Rose

Rose
Beautiful, fragrant
Blooming, smelling, enjoying
The most beautiful thing

Flower



By: Wong Yi Chin

HE WHO SEEKS MORE

He who cuts trees,

is working hard in the forest,


Day by day,

continuing thinking his life, endless,

He who seeks more,
treasures his only thing,
a huge, mighty axe which before,
he accidentally swing,

"Uh, Oh!" He says,
In the lake, deep and vast it is,
the axe slips,
He sits there, trying to take what is his,

A fairy like maiden emerges,
asking which was his things,
between a gold and silver axes,
Nature overwelmes He Who Still Seeks,

He Who Seeks More,
Wanting to change,
picking the rich,
His one, he ignore,

Now does, he knows,

One must never lie,
He Who Seeks More, KHALIDATUL
Now none, he owes. TESL 3

NATURE OF FRIENDSHIP

NOTHING STAYS
FOREVER

POEM BY NURUL MAISARAH

The gleam of orange light I still remember that time,
accompanies the evening, When you can change my frown,
Emitting a bright light Into a smile.
soothing the soul, Little did I know,
it just lasts for a while
Even though your presence
is only for a moment, I’m not sure what to say
Your presence will always be awaited My tongue feels like a frozen ice
Watching you walk away from me
When the clouds turn grey.
You look so shine and bright, Just like seasons,
As if you are the sun They change.
As if you are the light source of mine Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring.
In the dark. No season lasts forever
And I believe, people change too
Now, look at your smile,
Sweet smile etched on your face. After all,
Is there anything more lovely than I ask myself a million times,
that? How did this happen?
Looking like a beautiful rainbow Did we indulge in blame games?
That comes after the storm For the first time I had no words
That is what I could say.

Wondrous Remedy

By: Nurul Alia Syafiqah



Smell of the wind,
Smell of the green,
Everything could be like
a personal midday dream.



Little that I know,
The stare of the wild verdure,
The catharthic touch of the reservoir,
And the warm embrace of the sun,
Are the wondrous remedy
That humming the decent melody of life.



Little that I know,
An indifferent soul,
Soul who is lacking in every way,
Could taste the dulcet tone of feelings
Just by still and stare.



Put a pause to your disease,

Put a hold to your leash.



Like the wheels,
Let it roll sometimes
through the wondrous remedy.

Dear Sky,
Meet Sea;
A creation that completes my whole enchilada,
Keeping my lunacy in its axis.





Dear Sky,
Meet Sea;
Mother Earth's gift to fortify my obsidian saga,

Bearing all my thoughts that keep me out of my trances.





Dear Sky,
Meet Sea;
Nature that reverse persona non grata,
A company that I will always miss.





Title
: Sea
By: Ani
s Aizzah

UNDEFINED
BEAUTY

WRITTEN BY CHEW

Roses are not always red,
and the sky is not everyday blue.

From different angles,
they are just lovely and beautiful.



Day or night; summer or winter,
bright or dark; warm or mysterious,
People just love it, every sides.



Do what you love,
Love every single moment,
moment especially you enjoy the most.



The world isn't lack of beauty,
But just lacking of eyes that appreciate beauty.

NASUHA UMAIRA

MOTHER
NATURE

Incredibly stunning and heavenly,
Yet we destroy them all.



Will we ever realise that we need them in life?
Will we able to restore the harmony that we

wrecked?



Because of our immoral actions, the world is
dying.

Let us try our best to rehabilitate them again.



A small progress is still a progress!

Picture by:

Stars shine through the nights
Yet never lost their glows

Elegantly gleaming between these constellations
Dancing to avail the night


No one ever thought
Yet ever heed

That the bustling city heisted
The glow of the stars



But those stars are still there
They were just invicible
For those who treasure
Their tireless gleam

They who cherish the stars
Found their euphoria

Nur Dhini

New Life

NEW HOPE
Natasha Huda Norihan

Standing on the ocean of daisies,
Swish-swoosh makes the daisies

dancing,
Like the happiest girl on the earth,

Living as a daisy is a wish,
Where I can start a new journey,

Leave the abysmal past in
memories,

Because now I know the path that I
want and have to go,
Crystal clear.

NATURE OF HUMAN

The tiny spark of light within an alley
Shine and bright to ease the darkness
Haunt the heart and soul of self
To crawl for a spot of whiter path


Drown in bubbles of fear

Freeze and tied to be locked in self-doubt
Through the route of the inner self
To grasp for a rope of hope



The nature of human in the wild world
A frenzy hallucination swinging in mind

For it to be searching a way out
Or for it to be buried deeper inside
To it be in the matter of this faint light.




By: Puteri Alya

If Only My Name is "Sky"

by Sofia Arkia

The sky is falling,
and so am I,

no matter how much I try,
the world seems to be sinking.



The sky is blue,

and so am I,
I lie on the chair waiting for a reply,

but I can only stare at you.



The sky is tainted,
and so am I,

we are actually the same,
you cannot deny,



The sky has many names,
and I'm only Sofia,
but they love vain,

leaving me in melancholia.

Cherie

Look at those greenish mountains and hills,
The painted, radiant, sunny, darkening, idement
Layer of firmament up above our heads
Mellifluous singing of Robins and Chaffinches
Graceful glide of fishes through the streams.

Trees swaying away with the wind,
Petrichor, melancholy waves of smells and feelings,
That sweep over the earth,
Owls and hedgehogs in the serene mossy forests,
Labyrinth of ineffable twists and turns.

Listen to the drips and drops of the skies,
Delicate, enchanting flow of the rivulets,
Drifting away in the morn beam,
On and on into cascades and moana,
A hiraeth of indescent I long for.

Why is it always the beauteous,
That these hands are demolishing,
For the ephemeral earthbound indulgence?

Written By Nurul Izzati binti Abu Jais

ME

Looking at my shadows on the sands
make me look back on myself,

It’s not my toxic relationship with my
lover that make me anxious,

It’s not my unhealthy family relationship
that makes me scared.

It's not my pretentious friend that I
wanna try to run from.
It’s me,

It’s my own self that I'm afraid of.
Just like those ocean waves.

They can go crazy in any minute.
And they can drag anyone anytime,

to the deep… deep ocean
even when it looks calm.

SHAKILA FATIN

About Nature

WRITTEN BY: NUR FARAH NAJWA

Nature oh nature,
It sounds so short yet it is so meaningful,

Past, present or future,
Let's make sure that it is always useful.



Come on, take a walk,
Look at the trees, plants or flowers,
You can see how beautiful all those are when
you look around the park,
Do not let nature shed its tears.



Prevent the fire,
Stop the crime,
Protect nature with burning desire,
Be aware and do not waste time.



Preserve it,
Treat nature like how it deserves it.

Are you really crying?

WRITTEN BY NIA KARMILA

Dear Cloud,
The blue colour of you
Radiates how delighted are you

Up there so high
I know as I sigh
You are in Cloud Nine



But Cloud,
There are days you seem sour
Where gallons of water you pour
I’ve been wondering
You are not mourning… Right?
It is not crying… Right?
I am sure, it is a blessing.



Right, that couldn’t be crying.

How silly I was, assuming.



Oh No!
Now, more water you’re pouring!

Hey, Cloud!
Are you really crying?



Listen Cloud,
It is fine if I don’t bear fruits
It is fine if my leaves left their roots
It is totally fine if my flowers won’t increase
It is really fine if my hours decrease
It is fine if one day
I am meant to decease
When it really happens, don’t you miss
Because all you need to do is say CHEESE

NATURE IS
FRIEND

Nature, Oh mother Nature
How much pain and suffering has you witness

Scavenge from the savage
I hope we, you do not detest



You gave us trees so we can breath
You provided us livestock and fruits

from it we feast
You crack open your face

so thirst won’t get us



Dear humans, open your eyes
When you take too much nature resources

The nature cries
When that happen, catastrophes arise



Henceforth, decide
Be friend, or be wild






BY
:MOHAMMAD
AZIRUL HELMI

BIN
SAHARUDIN

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