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Jun 2020 · 770
Leader vs Boss
Akvpoems Jun 2020
It's easy to be a boss.
It's hard to be a leader.

It's easy to toss around instructions to someone telling him/her WHAT to do.

It's hard to explain to someone WHY it needs to be done. Sadly, the 'WHY' convinces people more than the 'WHAT' whenever you need them to cooperate.
We get better results from people who act the way they do because they know their 'WHY' than people who act the way they do because they know only the 'WHAT'.
Jun 2020 · 151
Money
Akvpoems Jun 2020
Money, in reality, is useless.
It can't comfort me when I'm sick.
It can't talk with me when I need someone to talk to.
It can't congratulate me when I achieve something.
It can't cook me food when I'm hungry nor pour a glass of water when I'm thirsty.

But,
It can be used to buy me medicine when I'm sick.
It can be used to  pay a phone call to my friend or it can be used to pay a visit to my parents' house when I need someone to talk to.
It can be used to buy the things I need or want to host a celebration party with my family and friends when I achieve something.
It can be used to buy food when I'm hungry and buy water when I'm thirsy.

I realize that money is, in fact, useless but becomes useful only when it serves a purpose.
#Money #Purpose #Learning
Akvpoems Mar 2020
Often we ask, 'what it takes to be successful?' but few ask, 'what it takes to face failure?'. This is what I've learned from what I read in a book--failure is not the actual opposite of success--it's 'quitting'. Once we quit, it's the end of the possible success awaiting us. Failures allow us to see where we've gone wrong and allow us to think how we can avoid them. So, I've realized failures aren't really bad at all. They're just lessons I need to learn. So if ever I commit the same mistake again, I know it's a lesson I only failed to learn.
#life #fail #try #success
Mar 2020 · 173
Loving Red
Akvpoems Mar 2020
♥️
❤️
💓
❣️
💘
🌹
🥀🌹💘❣️💓OVE

🥀🌹💘❣️💓
🌹.                  ❣️
💘.                    💓
❣️💓❣️♥️❤️­
💓.              ❣️
♥️.                 💘
❤️.                    🥀ED
Feb 2020 · 174
Write about
Akvpoems Feb 2020
What am I to write about
At this time, I could only think about
Nothing more and nothing less
About you who fill me with zest
Feb 2020 · 136
Time Oh Why
Akvpoems Feb 2020
When I'm ahead of time, I wait for it.
But when I'm chasing time, it doesn't wait for me. How unfair time is! Now I know why time is gold.
Feb 2020 · 101
Loving love
Akvpoems Feb 2020
Some think February 14 is a Valentine's Day only for couples, but they're wrong.
It's a day for everyone because love is universal.
Love ❤️
Dec 2019 · 142
Make it with you
Akvpoems Dec 2019
"Life can be short or long
  Love can be right or wrong
  And if I chose the one I'd like to
  help me through...
  I'd like to make it with you."
My favorite verse from the song
Dec 2019 · 194
JOYFUL HAPPINESS
Akvpoems Dec 2019
Good time with good friends
It's hard to say "goodbye"
Though moments fade
Memories stay

Happiness as they say is temporary coz it's event based (just as parties end)
But joy is lasting coz it's a state of the heart..a choice you make

My dear friends,
You blessed my moments with happiness and filled my heart with joy. So thank you!

♡Me
Dec 2019 · 657
Dear Crush,
Akvpoems Dec 2019
3 THINGS I REALIZED..

1. You fear of spiders but you can carry a snake?
2. You're so good in singing and dancing but I didn't know you're not good in painting abstract, tho I love your confidence. You're proud of your artwork and you said for you, it's a masterpiece.
3. You would rather buy a furniture than build one..(You know the DIY thing).
Anyway, I like you still. You're human, after all. I like you more after I realized this. You're perfectly imperfect and that's what I like most.
why oh why
Dec 2019 · 246
Dear Crush,
Akvpoems Dec 2019
I just want you to know, you're one lucky person to catch my admiration for over 4 years.
I never thought I would still feel the same way about you over the course of time but wow, I'm surprised how I hold onto my feelings for you. There's never an us and will there ever be? But it's alright.  I'm letting you be with the one you're meant to be with. You're a great inspiration in my life. You inspired me to improve and grow more each day. I could not find more words to express these all but THANK YOU.

You have a special place in my heart if you only know and that I also wish to see you again.
If only...if only
Dec 2019 · 448
Time
Akvpoems Dec 2019
Time is gold
Time runs endless like a river
Time can blow away my mind to different places and memories
Time can make me rush at times
But I felt like time stopped for a while

When you looked me in the eyes and smiled
Bored..but inspired.
Nov 2019 · 151
Which would you choose?
Akvpoems Nov 2019
Live dreaming
Or
Live your dreams?
Nov 2019 · 765
Hey Science
Akvpoems Nov 2019
Dear Science

Thank you for waking me up to the real world. Memorizing some terms and concepts for the sake of exams sometimes make me feel disappointed (and sleepy) but then I remember, there is essence in what you teach. Life can be hard at times, but you make me appreciate it more. Technical terms I might forget in the future doesn't matter but what I've learned from you.

Sincerely,
Me
I'm not aiming to be a scientist, nor a biologist, not even a zoologist, and so many more with -ist. I just want to say, thank you Science for everything you've taught. Now that I'm older, I realize I have just been really learning now. All those past years, I felt I had just been studying. Lol

As if Science is a person haha
Nov 2019 · 517
The same, Not the same
Akvpoems Nov 2019
I can never draw a picture as perfect as I have drawn it perfectly before. I tried but failed. Now, I realize we can't always make things the same way as before.
There will always be a difference, even in its smallest bit. A difference is still a difference. Nothing stays the same. The world is dramatically changing because we ourselves are too.
Nov 2019 · 196
How I define love
Akvpoems Nov 2019
To love is to prepare oneself for everything unexpected.

Good or bad, we have to accept it

To love is to stick to commitment
Not in an hour, a day but a lifetime.
I'll go back to this message I wrote..one day.
Oct 2019 · 181
How I see words
Akvpoems Oct 2019
Words that slid from the mouth are more powerful than words knitted in the mind.
Oct 2019 · 191
Do we?
Akvpoems Oct 2019
Do we need to lose something just to see its worth?

Do we need to get sick just to realize how blessed we are of having a healthy body?

Maybe, yes. Because losing or lacking of something may mean realizing one thing we should be grateful of.
Oct 2019 · 542
Learn
Akvpoems Oct 2019
We don't just study
To pass the exams
We study
Because we want to learn.

Studying lasts for years.
Learning lasts a lifetime.
Study the appearance of a person. Years later, you might forget how he or she looks like. Try to learn about that person, because what you learned, you can never forget.
Oct 2019 · 534
Why smile, why cry
Akvpoems Oct 2019
Admit it or not
We smile for a reason
That reason mostly is a person

But we also cry for a reason
That reason mostly is a person
Sadly, it may be the same person who made us smile
Oct 2019 · 306
For me
Akvpoems Oct 2019
Life, for me, is..
Try and score whether you try and lose.

Give your all whether success is guaranteed or not.
Oct 2019 · 194
You and Me
Akvpoems Oct 2019
I've always loved the sunset
Just as I've always loved the day we first met

It could have been nicer
If we would be able to spend time with each other
I would not mind if the universe conspires
To make us cross our paths again and make me feel blazingly, once again inspired
Oct 2019 · 520
Mood
Akvpoems Oct 2019
It's better to talk to a deaf man
Than talk to a person with a deaf heart

It's better to walk with a blind man
Than walk with a person whose eyes can see but are oblivious
A deaf man cannot hear the words you speak but strives to connect with your feelings.  We know that "listen" and "hear" are two different things.

A blind man cannot see but uses his senses to know what is happening around him. He still can lead the way for he has a direction.
Sep 2019 · 276
Play around
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Sometimes I feel like writing
Sometimes I feel I don't
Just as sometimes you like me
And sometimes you just don't
Sep 2019 · 223
Relax
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Gray skies
Light rains tapping on the window
Getting my blanket
Relaxing under the covers

Gloomy skies don't mean a gloomy day.
Sep 2019 · 116
Just passing by to inspire
Akvpoems Sep 2019
There's always a reason to smile
Just as there is when you cry

There's always a reason to be glad
Just as there is when you feel bad

So whenever you feel like crying and sad,
Remember that there will always be a reason to smile and be glad.

Sincerely,
Me
#smile
#inspire
Sep 2019 · 131
Thank You
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Dear crush,

Why in an ocean of people
It's you who makes me feel most inspired
To write at least a single line or two
In my poems to express my gratitude

Sincerely,
The melting butter and the jelly slime
#love
#crush
Akvpoems Sep 2019
I find it hard to speak
when you're near me
Words are clouded in my mind
Right word is just hard to find

Feelings are locked in my chest
I just can't confess
Words are difficult to utter
As nervousness makes me a melting butter

Only in my eyes you can see the words I'm trying to convey
Eyes are the windows to our soul as they say
I hope you'll know what I attempt to relay

Gaze at you is what I can only do
At this moment when I am stuck adoring you
Forgive me if I act this way 'coz lips are just timid and;
I don't know what to say

This is me your admirer
A melting butter
And a jelly slime
Sep 2019 · 206
Unsaid
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Not saying "I love you" doesn't mean I don't love you.

        Not saying "I care about you"
   doesn't mean I don't care about
                                                     you.

Sorry if I lack in words, but hope in my actions you could see.
#love
Sep 2019 · 256
Just to inspire
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Life is filled with wonders.
Your body is God's gift to you and a ticket to explore what life has to offer.

   Sincerely,
Me
#life #inspire
Sep 2019 · 119
Home
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Climbing trees
Swinging branches
Swinging twigs
Falling leaves

Some falling down
Fruits go falling down
Birds' beak peeking
Into their home seeking

Home calling
Into the bark etching
While tweeting
Birds singing
#home #nature #trees #birds
Sep 2019 · 1.2k
Pagkikita
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Sa lahat-lahat ng taong narito
Bakit sayo pa tumigil ang mundo
ko
Isang tingin, ako'y 'yong
napansin
Sa'yong titig ako'y napakapit
Pakiramdam ko'y parang nasa
langit
Ngiti mo'y pagkatamis-tamis
Tila bang daig pa ang tsokalate
Mga mata'y mapupungay at
malambing
Labi mo'y simpula ng mga rosas
Tila rin bang sinlambot ng bulak
Kay sarap titigan ang mala-
anghel **** mukha
Daig pa ang droga, tunay na
kahuhumalingan
Di ko alam bakit ganito ang
aking nadarama
Sa ating unang pagkikita
Ako sayo'y nabihag na
#crush
Sep 2019 · 197
Love of my life
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Racella Alcantara is her name
A kind of lady every man will dream
Caring, loving and understanding
Everything will be found in her
Lovely as the sweet flowers that bloom in the morning light
Lovely as the moon and the stars that glows in the dark night
And yes, the shining light of my life

All of my life I thought I'll never fall in love
Like an angel she came and taught me to love
Completing and fulfilling this empty world of mine
And to realize how great the love was solemnly divine
Nothing can compare when I took her to my heart
Truly, madly, deeply I love her very much
And no one will ever take her place in my heart
Real love is what I feel as they say
And forever she will be the love of my life.
#love
By Decoroso Vasquez Jr.
Sep 2019 · 148
Fright
Akvpoems Sep 2019
His face turns into a frown
Because of that smiling clown
His ice cream fell and melt down
The clown doesn't know what to do now

He tries to apologize
But apology seems not suffice
The kid's feral gaze at him
Made him feel at lost in a maze

The kid closes his hand in a fist
His eyes are like of fiery beasts
The clown is like electrofied
Standing on his feet terrified

The frightened clown runs away
But the kid doesn't bother to chase
Instead, he opens his mouth
What they heard was a scary shout
#scary
Sep 2019 · 2.5k
Paghanga mula sa malayo
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Kailan mo kaya mapapansin
Ang isang katulad ko
Parati na lang hanggang tingin
Ang abot kaya ko

Makausap ka'y di ko magawa sapagkat nahihiya
Maraming tao ang nakapaligid sayo
Isang tingin, isang iglap
Ika'y maglalaho
#crush
Sep 2019 · 127
Crush
Akvpoems Sep 2019
1 word, five letters
Starts with a "C", ends with a "sh"
You'd keep this word a secret
A secret you'd rather conceal than reveal;
You fear of being rejected, coz you know you might feel dejected;

1 word, five letters
Makes you blush,
puts you in a rush
Suddenly, your heart beats fast
Then flop! Your heart fell into...Crush!

Without realizing your heart was crushed
#crush
Sep 2019 · 164
Reason
Akvpoems Sep 2019
You're the reason why I wrote this
A simple message, hope you'll read
Thousand years, been waiting to impart
All the words came from my broken heart

Since you left me, I've experienced restless nights
All the pains I've tried to fight
Our memories've been torn apart
After all this time, this is what I got

Bruises that made me sick
Nightmares that always creep
Deep down inside, baby you're killing me
You broke my heart, but you didn't mend it
You left me hurting from our love
This romance I regret
I wish I never met you
You left me a wonderful story
From love to hate
From care to hurt
Sunshine to twilight
But congrats, coz you made me stronger

After all this years, I've been moving on
Finally, I've mustered the courage to say this to you
Thank you for opening my eye to the reality
I've finally woke up from my fairytale-fantasy
Oh yes, romantic love with you I thought would last
But guess what? This is true
The love would last but not with you

Finally, I am bolder now
Wiser and fiercer than I thought I couldn't be
Because of you, I am standing tall
I learned to rise from all my falls
Real meaning of love I found from sacrifices
Not from mere touch or incredible kisses
I'm blessed with heart and mind
"You left me" reason can't say I'm not one of a kind
Love will find me, I'll be fine

But now, it's time to say goodbye
Have a good life
I now forgive you though you didn't ask forgiveness
Grudges for you I won't keep forever

Don't worry, I'll meet someone better who'll love me faithfully
Maybe we're just not meant for each other
I'll meet my better half, surely, you'll or you've met yours too
I won't make this message long
So, what now? Good bye
I'll live out my life

With a smug smile,
The heart you shattered
#reason #broken
Sep 2019 · 136
Music
Akvpoems Sep 2019
Music is a language
Through songs it never age
Composed by men through passing years
Till now their old songs reach our ears

Music is expression
Feelings jammed in sessions
One note we could equate to words
Let's sing our heart out like a bird

Music is creative
Rhythms are incisive
Images are formed in our head
As we listen to words unsaid

Music complements life
Into it our hearts dive
Whatever mood at the moment
Let the song express your message
#music

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