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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

THE WILD KRATTS KIDS







THE WILD KRATTS KIDS
By: Noel N. Villarosa
19 November 2014



OH, WOH, OH, OH, WOH, OH, OH, WOH, OH

Turning on the TV
Wonders how they do it
Why they need to flee
Is a matter you know your mother wit

When the world is calm
Somewhere out there needs your help
Who could hear them, and make becalm
Someone watched them like a wolf’s whelp

They are brothers to save wild fauna
With their special creature power suits
Gaining animal powers, saving them from trauma
Transport them in a specific route

Helping rebuild habitat’s life chain
Pio as Chris, Malka as Aviva
JD as Martin, Joakim as Gavin
Teamwork with a brilliant idea

Dolphin’s dive, frogfish’s camouflage
It feels great with these powers
With the strength of rhino charge
Basilisk lizard walking on water

Here come the wild kratts kids
Here come the wild kratts kids
Here come the wild kratts kids

OH, WOH, OH, OH, WOH, OH, OH, WOH, OH

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Saturday, November 1, 2014

MY ROARING T-REX


                                                    Photo credit: T-rex Sculpt by jwendels
                                               
Video of the song created in Microsoft Movie Maker


MY ROARING T-REX
By: Noel N. Villarosa


A vicious angry growl
The pounding of feet on the ground
The sound of munching but in scowl
Looking for bigger bite and cast around

Hiding for awhile and suddenly showed
In the webcam, he grinned broadly
Making way to show his world
Just for playful fun and talk fondly

Come out, come out my roaring t-rex
Come out, come out show me your reflex
I am in the mood to run and be chased
And caught in my little son’s embraced

You are my roaring t-rex in the chat room
Roaring is your way to make me smile
It’s always perfect and laughter in boom
A moment I would always want to reconcile

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31 October 2014 

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Sonnet Poem - A Destiny To Meet A Humble Boss





SONNET POEM
A DESTINY TO MEET A HUMBLE BOSS



The Grace of Allah be with you always
That fateful day, we met in the Philippines
A short interview and you said okay
An agreement that was a way to begin

Appreciate your kindness like brother
No barrier between us and for all
True humility brings you closer to others
Promotes well-being is your ultimate goal

Many times I stepped to ask for your aid
You stepped up to be prudent and sensible
Always speak in gentle tone and well said
Your leadership is such exceptional

To me, to others you are a true friend
Your kind-heartedness will always remind

Written by: NOEL N. VILLAROSA

23 October 2014

Monday, October 6, 2014

Pio and the Fire-breathing Dragon

                                                        Photo credit: digwall.com

Pio and the fire-breathing Dragon
(Short story for children)
by: NOEL N. VILLAROSA
6 OCTOBER 2014

One day, when a young boy named Pio explored into North America and climbed the Teton Range, where rocks that could be found there were believed to be the oldest rock formations about 2.5 billion years ago. Pio believed that the tremor that was recorded in that place was not ordinary tremor coming from below but caused by a huge creature lying inside the rocky mountain.

Pio brought all of the needed equipment and moved on to find the missing cave where he heard the old folklore about the fire-breathing dragon. As he climbed the rough and peak mountain--he would normally rest for a while; he can hear strange noise not far from his place, but he just ignored it and took a deep breath to calm himself from fear of the surroundings.

Many days he was searching the terrain, one day he found one suspicious looking trailing plant that was holding a huge rock and covered with moss. It looked like a cave opening. Pio tried to clear the savage passageway by using his bolo, and with the help of a large stick, Pio enabled pushing the massive stone and rolled out to make a way, he discovered a dark cave. Pio got his flashlight and got inside to check what could be lurking inside. At the lowland, he slid and jumped over the flowing stream, he followed the stream that leads him to a much darker place. Pio stopped for a while upon smelling a burned-out breath just like a cigarette. Pio watched carefully his steps, and he felt a rough bumpy layover. Pio just stepped on the back of the fire-breathing dragon, and had awakened it to immediately get up and ready to strike the intruder--Pio.

The dragon looked at Pio.
“Um. How are you, my friend dragon?" Pio asked.
“I’m fine, little boy.” “And what are you doing here?” Dragon replied.
“Well, I was lost and I would like to spend a night inside this cave if you don’t mind,” Pio said.

“Outside is a little misty and cold,” Pio said.

“I’m not feeling cold in here if you could feel my stomach; it is charging as I digest my food, I eat those metal-rich rocks to help grind hard objects that I have eaten. I have two chambers in my stomach; one is secreting acid for breaking down food, and the other one has several fire glands such as methane and octane that helped me to spit out fire from my mouth,” Dragon said.

“I’m so impressed by your capability, you must have spit a powerful fire and that no one dares to challenge you to a fight,”  Pio said.

“Indeed my little friend, how would you like asking me to do an awesome thing and I would be glad to do it just for you,” Dragon replied.

“It is obvious that you can do anything, but would you mind lighting those torches on the wall so that I could see around,” Pio said.

“As you wish,” Dragon replied.

As the dragon emitted fire from its mouth, the fire touched the torches and gave off flames. Now, little Pio could see around and was thinking a way out because in no time the dragon would tear and burn him into pieces.

Pio said again to the dragon, “My friend dragon, can you see that stream of water, if you could drink that water and put it all inside your stomach that would make me believe that you could do anything and nothing is impossible.”

Pio was thinking that in order that fire glands inside the dragon’s stomach will not generate fire anymore, it needed to swallow the water into its stomach that would give him a chance to escape and run away.

“Yes, I can drink all the water in that river and drought I gave to that stream,” Dragon boasted.

 As the dragon gulped down all the water into its stomach, it felt bloated and could not hold it anymore as it tried to release it again back into the stream, Pio positioned himself into the dried stream, and waited for the dragon to release the water, as the dragon blew the water, Pio rode into the rushing water, and evicted him out of the cave, plunged on free-falling waterfalls thus escaping the dragon’s chasing. While the dragon was trying to run after him but it could not fit its huge body into the mouth of the cave, and could not emit its fire again because the water that penetrated its second stomach with fire glands was no more producing fire as it was cooled down by the water. The dragon became weak, and could not move its body, also suddenly its heart stopped beating thus ending its life, and the folklore of the fire-breathing dragon was sealed in that rocky mountain where no one could ever find him.

Pio outsmarted the dragon; he got home safely and promised to himself that he would not tell it to anybody what he just discovered on that rocky mountain. It was an adventure he would treasure as long as he lives. THE END.


Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Sliver the Dinosaur Robot and the Five Children (Short Story for Children)


                           Photo Credit: Amazon.com: VTech Switch & Go Dinos – Sliver the

Sliver the Dinosaur Robot and the Five Children (Short Story for Children)
By: Noel N. Villarosa
12 August 2014

This is my story: When the world was still young, dinosaurs ruled the earth. As some believed that their extinction was caused by an asteroid. The asteroid that had hit them was relatively rocky and metallic that came from another planet which other creatures have lived. The Centaur Aliens have built one huge asteroid, and had put on it was a gravitational force to pull such massive object such as that of a dinosaur. The more massive like a dinosaur, the more gravitational pull it exerted to all dinosaurs. They got all dinosaurs and experimented on their bodies. The Centaur Aliens were intelligent creatures that they wanted to build a toy dinosaur robot in order to build a relationship with humans, and later manipulate the earth. From their experiments, they have chosen 5 dinosaurs to be made as robots, and they sent it back to earth, but along the travel from the outer space into the atmosphere of earth, something strange things happened, the giant dinosaur robots have shrunk into a miniature dinosaur robots as it passed through the earth’s atmosphere, these are: The Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Sauropods, The Velociraptor, The Albertaceratops Nesmoi, and The Hadrosaurs. The spaceship landed in the Philippines. These robots were programmed acting on their own, and have themselves placed among other toys in the store, waiting for children to take them home.

One day one family went to the mall to look for toys to be given to five children as gifts, they strolled inside the mall. Pio got his attention to one standing dinosaur robot that seems to look to his direction; he got this and asked for his mom to buy it. Malka on the other side got her attention to one dinosaur robot and she got this also, JD also took one dinosaur robot, Joakim had picked his choice, and so with Incredible Hulk. All the five children went home with their new dinosaur robots.

Pio has named his dinosaur robot as Sliver T-rex, Malka named her dinosaur robot as Sara, JD named his dinosaur robot as Vailu, Joakim named his dinosaur robot as Albert, and Incredible Hulk has named his dinosaur robot as Hadros.

One evening when the five children fell asleep, unaware that their dinosaur robots were now moving and talking to each other as if they were talking secretly about their mission. Sliver the T-Rex who was the leader of the group was holding microchips planned to be implanted on their satellite and to trace where the frozen fossils of the Troodon dinosaur was located. The Centaur Aliens believed that if they could get the fossils of a Troodon will have a better chance for them to create a smart dinosaur robots and to be sent for fighting their enemy -- the Trisdan Alien who was trying to build also their best dinosaur robot -- the Utahraptor dinosaur robot who was very lethal and designed to be a killing machine.

The Trisdan Aliens were building many kinds of Utahraptors, and ready to be sent to the Centaur Planet. The five dinosaurs sent to earth were their last chance to survive the attack of the Trisdan’s Utahraptors.

Back to the house of the five children, the Centaur leader had sent a message to Sliver T-rex to locate the fossils of the Troodon dinosaur because of a threat of a possible attack of the Trisdan’s robots.

As Pio and his four friends were having great fun with their dinosaur robots, suddenly Sliver the T-Rex had shown some unusual behavior like directly talking to Pio, and asking for their help to find North America, and to locate the fossils of the Troodon dinosaur. Pio normally was shocked by what he heard from Sliver, and so with the other dinosaur robots. Pio had asked Malka, JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk to help their dinosaur robots to locate the fossils of the Troodon dinosaur. The five children together with the five dinosaurs which they called as the switch-and-go team rode to their spaceship to bring them to North America believed where the Troodon’s fossils could be found. Sliver using the space-based radar satellite would help them detect and track the fossils of Troodon dinosaur.

However, after closely examining the North American fossil record from that time period, the five children have read that researchers believed that some dinosaurs could have actually survived from the asteroid’s devastating impacts and probably died due to other causes.

Sliver’s space-based radar satellite started to trace something somewhere in the place of Montana, they landed to where the signal was leading them, and they excavated the ground and to the surprise of all, were laid the fossils of the Troodon dinosaur. Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim and Incredible Hulk carefully collected the pieces and wrapped it in cloth and put it inside the box for protection while traveling.

Sliver sent a message back to Centaur Planet that they have already retrieved the fossils and will be transported back to their planet anytime. Centaur leader received the message at the time they were being attacked; they just sent a message to Sliver not to come back, as it was already in a hostile position. The last message was distressing and they could only hear explosions. The Centaur Planet was destroyed and there was nobody who survived the attacked.


Meanwhile, the switch-and-go team led by Sliver was thinking what to do next, as there were no more places to return to. The five children: Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim and Incredible Hulk decided to keep them in their house, and to be there with them as long as they lived. Maybe for this time, they will be safe for a while with their new found friends: Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk. THE END

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Into the Abyss and the Five Children (Short Story for Children)

                                    
Photo Credit: The Abyss by MadFatSkillz

Into the Abyss and the Five Children
By: Noel N. Villarosa
16 July 2014


This is my story: A long time ago, when Mariana creatures (those living under the sea) mingled with Aslanda creatures (those living in the land), they made a compact that both will take care of the magical scepter (a long decorated stick that is carried by a king or queen) that holds the opening of the gate into the deep sea. The magical scepter was kept by Pellucida, daughter of King Eunecid.

Aslanda was led by Chieftain Tudah with his son Cumbo as his trusted warrior. Aslanda people were forbidden to hold and see the secret scepter kept by Pellucida, as it will close the gate connecting the Marianas to the Aslandas. Marianas and Aslandas have an in-depth understanding of their own language through the magical power of the scepter that opened their minds for communication. They could barter whatever things they have in their kingdom and so with the humans. For so long ago people have explored the vast depths of the oceans, they were allowed to visit the Mariana’s Kingdom and were allowed to explore the beauty that lies beneath the ocean.

King Eunecid is a half man half seahorse, while Princess Pellucida is a beautiful half woman half blue jellyfish. Many underwater creatures have the ability to talk; even the Deep-sea Glass Squid can communicate using light organs on its eyes. Humans can play with the Dumbo Octopus while riding on its tentacles. The vent crab would always do the clapping when it was happy. The brittle starfish always act as a blindfold to human eyes when they like to play the hide and seek game. The Hagfish was always helping humans on their house chores by cleaning the house backyards. The deep-sea lizardfish would always have fun racing with humans to get into the bottom of the sea. The deep-sea giant sea spider would always be hanging around with women who like to stitch out a cloth covering for the dining table. The eelpout fish would always be found playing with its thick-lipped and kissing children he met along the way. But the monstrous of all underwater creatures was the Ogrefish with its fangtooth and muscular body could chase down the humans. King Eunecid had put the Ogrefish locked inside a dark cave under high pressures, freezing water, and where sunlight could not pass through into its deepest.

The Ogrefish had a bad intention of stealing the scepter to Princess Pellucida, and to make this expose to human eyes, as envy grew inside its heart against Aslandas and Marianas, the Ogrefish wished to get the scepter in order to close the door for the humans and to look at Mariana Kingdom as their new King. There was one secret friend of the Ogrefish who would like to set him free, it was the Darth Vader Jellyfish with its 4 tentacles and 12 stomach pouches. It usually swam holding out its poisoned tentacles in front and could melt even the strongest steel bars. The Darth Vader Jellyfish secretly managed to go into the deepest cave where the Ogrefish was held captive and using its tentacles melted down the steel bars blocking the way out. The Ogrefish had escaped and immediately visited Princess Pellucida, and by force got the scepter from her hands. The Ogrefish swam his way above the sea and exposed the scepter to Aslandas. Upon the Aslandas saw the scepter with their own eyes, a whirlpool suddenly appeared, and sucked all the water down the seabed, but before the whirlpool closed, Cumbo got a chance to grab the scepter from the Ogrefish, and leaving the once vast ocean into a dried terrain.

For a long time, the Mariana Kingdom was gone and been separated from the Aslandas. But the hope to see the Mariana Kingdom was possible upon the scepter’s power which Cumbo had kept.

Many years have passed, and so Cumbo died from sickness, along with his grave, the scepter was kept. Not until one fateful day, a group of paleographers and cryptologists arrived where Cumbo’s grave was unearthed.  Pio and Malka were paleographers (one who study ancient writing), while JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk were known to be cryptologists (people who work with secret codes). These five children were gifted and been working with secret codes, and studying the most complex and difficult code found on earth. They knew about the scepter and must know how to decode the secret message etched into the scepter in order to open again the door for the Kingdom of Mariana.

Pio and Malka studied the ancient writing,  and discovered that what was inscribed in the scepter were the Vinca symbols, it conveyed a message and needed to be deciphered. Pio and Malka turned over their findings to JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk to study the codes or the symbols written on the scepter. Pio and Malka told them that some symbols were referring to sea creatures; a light referring to the sun and moon; and a tomb’s secret passage for light. JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk translated the symbols that in order to open the gate to Mariana Kingdom was to find a preserved fossil of sea creatures that lived from that period, and from that fossil they will extract oil from it, and to put it at the top of Cumbo’s grave, and wait until the Sun enters the small hole of the tomb to heat it, and later to flow freely inside the scepter,  and at night let the Moon’s light penetrates the secret hole to the tomb to fuel the oil inside it, and to reveal the secret code to open the Mariana Kingdom.  Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk prepared themselves to expect the unexpected; they followed as what the symbols were telling them what to do. Carefully they followed the steps, and when the proper time for the Moon to light up the oil, the scepter suddenly glowed and emitted a light back to the moon and to redirect it back to the ground. The light that hit the ground split it, and water afterward flowed filling the vast terrain into almost a wide sea. 

Pio just saw the Deep-Sea Lizardfish and jumped on his head ready to play the hide and seek game. Malka met the Brittle Starfish and acted as a blindfold to her eyes. JD saw Dumbo Octopus and touched him with its tentacles, Joakim met the Hagfish and started to help him cleaning the ground, and Incredible Hulk met the Eelpout fish and started kissing him on his cheeks.

The five children began talking with the sea creatures, and they just found out that King Eunecid and Princess Pellucida were held captive by the Ogrefish. The sea creatures told them that they were held locked inside the cave. Pio was holding the scepter as the key to enter the Kingdom of Mariana, and the five children used this to save the King and the Princess. Holding the scepter was not impossible for the five children to go to the deepest of the ocean, and they could breathe just like other sea creatures. The five children reached the deepest of the sea and saw the cave where the king and the princess were held. But all of a sudden the Ogrefish and Darth Vader Jellyfish have appeared on the five children stopping them to free the king and the princess. Pio using the scepter pointed to the Ogrefish and the Darth Vader Jellyfish emitting a flash of light that could make them blind. The flash of light from the scepter just blinded the Ogrefish and the Darth Vader Jellyfish making them helpless but to surrender to the five children. King Eunecid and Princess Pellucida were at long last freed again from the Ogrefish and Darth Vader Jellyfish. Kind Eunecid and Princess Pellucida thanked the five children and gave each of them a black pearl as their way of thanking them. From then on the Kingdom of Mariana and the human beings were reunited once again. The five children were given access to the underwater castle of King Eunecid and Princess Pellucida. The five children were very happy to mingle with the sea creatures and to play with them at all times. THE END.



Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Part 3: The Genie in the Bottle and the Five Children (Short Story for Children)

                                                     Photo Credit: deviantart.com
Part 3: The Genie in the Bottle and the Five Children
By: Noel N. Villarosa
16 July 2014


This is the continuation: As Gestner kept floating in the sea, unsuspected to Genie and the five children, Gestner had still one potion in his pocket. Gestner used this potion to counter-attack JD’s signal mirror’s code and easily helped him to pass through the bottle as white smoke. Gestner succeeded in escaping inside the bottle. Gestner flew into the air to look for Genie and the five children to get his revenge.

Outside the open field, Genie and the five children were talking, when Genie suddenly remembered a way to bring back his power, and that was to travel back to his past, and the only way to do this was through the powers that he gave to the five children. Genie could use Pio’s binocular to find the exact location of the Minkowski time-space in order to move him in between different points in space for traveling backward in time. Genie could even use Malka’s flashlight to light his way inside the dark time-space. He took a small piece of JD’s signal mirror to use this as his way of communicating back to the five children. Genie told JD to use his signal mirror to send code that will locate the trace of the space he occupied in the past. Genie could also use Joakim’s flares to burst a bright flame as an advance signal to locate his past. Genie planned to go back to the past to stop Krosant in doing his dagger, and the potion that would get his power; likewise this would also prevent Gestner for knowing what Krosant’s secret in formulating the potion at that exact time. He needed to be there ahead of Gestner and before Krosant could build his dagger and the potion. And so Genie got inside the time-space to travel back in time.

Gestner located the five children, and he threatened them that if they will not help him to go inside the time-space, they will be put inside the bottle. The five children scared of Gestner’s threat have no other option but to help him to get inside the time-space.

Genie safely arrived in the past and quickly managed to stop Krosant in doing his dagger and the potion. In doing this, Genie’s power has returned back. Along the time-space, Gestner was still traveling, while all the time has changed, and when Gestner arrived there, it was too late for him to stop Genie, and he did not see what Krosant did for his dagger and the potion. All because Genie has turned back the time, Gestner could not found the dagger and the potion.

Both Genie and Gestner were trapped in the past, and could not return back to the future. Genie just sent a message to JD’s signal mirror that he could not return back anymore, that he was safely back on his time with all his power returned back. All Genie would like the five children to feel was his overwhelming appreciation for what the five children did to help him, and will not forget them as long as he lives. So even before the invention of the cell phone, the five children were using a signal mirror to send a message to Genie about what was happening to them. Genie and the five children even separated by time have still a way to communicate with each other. THE END.

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Part 2: The Genie in the Bottle and The Five Children (Short Story for Children)


                                                    Photo Credit to deviantart.com



Part 2: The Genie in the Bottle and the Five Children
By: Noel N. Villarosa
5 July 2014


This is the continuation: As the Genie and the five children were separated with each other; only the signal mirror of JD will be their way of communication as it signals a code where one is in danger and needs help. Beyond the knowledge of the Genie and the five children, there was one man from the past that belongs to the time of Genie and Krosant that had survived the call of time; his name was Gestner, he was the helper of Krosant, and knew about the potion that Krosant’s dagger had. Gestner also knew one potion that Krosant had invented; this potion could help anyone to live a longer life if swallowed, so he stole this potion with Krosant before Krosant died in the battle. Gestner also knew that potion could take the Genie’s power, once Krosant’s dagger glistened with light; the potion will be released, and when inhaled by Genie, it will suck Genie’s power and be transferred to the one holding the dagger.

Gestner had searched for the missing dagger; he had followed the last trace where Genie was found by the five children. Gestner knew that only on that island where the five children had found Genie could be where he could find Krosant’s dagger. Gestner went to the isolated island and using his mind power, he had located Krosant’s dagger beneath the deep sea. Now the dagger was in Gestner’s possession, the only way to get Genie’s power was to put this lying beside Genie when he falls into sleep, and let the light glistened to emit the potion that would suck the power from within Genie’s body.

Gestner had searched for Genie, he traveled to different places and using his mind power, he finally located where Genie was living. Gestner waited until he got the perfect time to lay the dagger beside Genie’s body.

From the remote place where the five children were situated, JD’s signal mirror had received a code from Genie’s exact location, and it was sending a code that Genie was in big danger. JD told this to Pio, Malka, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk that anytime Genie will be killed by his oppressor. So without wasting any time, Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk flew to the place where the code was signaling from JD’s signal mirror.

They arrived in the place, but it was too late; Gestner had prevailed from his bad intention to the Genie. The five children found Genie lying on the bed too weak to stand up because the dagger had taken away all his powers. Pio using his binocular found a safe place where they could bring Genie and ask for help. Malka using her flashlight sent a dancing polar light in the sky to help Genie revived his strength. JD used his signal mirror to send the code to Krosant’s dagger to stop transferring the power into thy hand’s thief but rather alter the potion into a curse that whosoever have it will be trapped inside the bottle forever more, and no summoner will ever find him. Joakim using his flare brightened up the evening, and that lively light has made Genie wake up. Incredible Hulk using his strength tried to carry Genie to the place where Pio’s binocular had searched where they could hide Genie from Gestner. The good fellowship that the five children extended to help Genie only proved that Genie was not wrong of choosing them to be the rightful owner of the special gift that he gave away.

From the hiding place of Gestner, the thief was rejoicing for he knew that anytime when Krosant’s dagger glistened again, it will transfer Genie’s power into his body, but he never knew that JD’s signal mirror had sent a code that will alter the potion into a curse, that would put him inside the bottle and be trapped forever more without any summoner to free him again. Krosant’s dagger glistened, and while it glistened, slowly the light transformed Gestner’s body into a white smoke and put him inside the bottle. Gestner inside the bottle was taken away by the big sea waves and was battling the wave’s commotion every day and night without an assurance of finding his freedom again.

Genie lived a normal life without his power anymore. The five children: Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk, have wholeheartedly accepted Genie as part of their family. They lived as free as to where the wind blows. THE END.

Friday, July 4, 2014

The Genie in the Bottle and the Five Children (A Short Story for Children)


                                                                           Photo Credit to deviantart.com



The Genie in the Bottle and the Five Children
By: Noel N. Villarosa
2 July 2014


This is my story: Long before when pirates and genies were acquainted with each other, they made good jokes all day long. One pirate named Krosant, who was an alchemist and a fortuneteller, created a chemical to mix in materials for doing a special bottle. Any spirit like the genie could be trapped inside unless the cork been removed from the outside. The pirate Krosant and his friend genie once tried to prove their special talents. Each will show their hidden talents. The genie agreed with Krosant. Genie asked Krosant if he could hit the apple from the tree using his dagger. Krosant immediately drew out his dagger and flung it to the direction of the apple, the apple dropped on the ground, Krosant proved his talent. Now Krosant asked the genie to show his talent, he asked genie if he could go inside the small bottle. Genie has to prove his guts, but before genie went inside, Krosant gave his dagger to genie as a gift. Genie had the power to transform into anything, in order to get inside the bottle, genie transformed into white smoke to get inside the bottle, while Krosant with bad intention immediately covered the bottle with a cork. Now Krosant asked the genie if he could get out from the bottle, but with all his efforts proved to be useless because of the secret chemical that Krosant had mixed in molding that bottle. Krosant was impressed by his invention and would not let genie come out, and from then on genie was trapped inside the bottle, but Krosant left a promise for his friend genie, that he will give him another gift, a chance to escape. But this gift was not in his possession but on other’s hand--his summoner, that in the future five children will remove the cork to free him, but genie will never know who these five children are. Only time could tell. Krosant also told genie that once freed, genie must grant wishes for the five children as a gesture of appreciation. Krosant tossed the bottle into the sea, and the sea has been its bed. For so many years the sea waves brought the bottle with the genie to travel many places finding for his fate. Krosant fought many battles and died in one battle he had encountered.

One fateful day, five children namely: Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim and Incredible Hulk were sailing in the Pacific ocean, they were training to sail a sailboat in preparation for the mainsail race. A gusty storm brought down their sails causing the boat to stop, the five children managed to reach the nearby island, and when they safely landed on the shore, Pio noticed a bottle half sank on the sand, he picked it up and saw a mysterious man inside the bottle and was waving and pointing upwards, like telling him to pull out the cork, Pio called Malka, JD, Joakim and Incredible Hulk to look at what he found. Malka out of curiosity, pulled out the cork letting the man inside to come out, as white smoke gradually forming into a burly young man holding Krosant’s dagger as a recollection of Krosant’s treachery to him. The genie was so triumphant that after being stuck inside the bottle since Krosant’s betrayal, he spoke to the five children, “As my way of appreciation, I am granting you five wishes,” said by Genie.

Pio knew that Malka had lost her flashlight; Malka knew that Pio lost his binocular; JD knew that Joakim lost his flares; Joakim knew that JD lost his signal mirror, while Incredible Hulk knew nothing at all.

Pio had wished for the genie to bring back Malka’s lost flashlight, the genie granted it. Malka wished that Pio’s binoculars be restored; the genie gave it to Pio. JD had wished for Joakim’s flares and it was granted; Joakim wished for JD’s signal mirror and it was also been granted. All in all the survival gear supplies have restored into the four children. During the night, Malka used her flashlight to send a signal from the shore; Pio used his binoculars to see an approaching ship; JD used his signal mirror to send a signal from the shore, and Joakim used his flares during the night to send signal up in the sky. After a thorough and clever distress calling and signaling, a ship had found their location. Genie was happy for the four children that he noticed their cooperative endeavors in the face of danger, they did not ask for an easy way out; instead, they used their skills and not just wishing to the genie to pop them out from the isolated island. The asking for their needed survival kit to find a way out proved that helping each other is the best tool to survive. The four children impressed genie by what they have shown, so genie gave them a special gift to bring, and it was rare of its kind, a golden binocular that would always find a safe place was given to Pio; a flashlight emitting a dancing polar light display in the sky was given to Malka; a signal mirror that transmits sound and code was given to JD; and a flare blazing light that would last the whole night was given to Joakim. The four children were happy to receive their gifts from genie, while they boarded in the rescue ship, the four children tapped Incredible Hulk’s shoulder telling him that it was all right if he did not receive anything from genie, what they have also belonged to him and nothing could stop them in sharing what they have to Incredible Hulk.  The genie with his freedom enjoyed a normal life outside the bottle. He returned back to his hometown, but could not see anymore his old friends, he tossed Krosant’s dagger into the sea to forget everything. The End.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Kingdom of Words and the Five Children (Short Story for Children)

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The Kingdom of Words and the Five Children (Short Story for Children)
By: Noel N. Villarosa
29 June 2014

Once there were five friends namely: Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk who thought of being smarter than everyone else. An old folk on their village once told a story about a place where no one has gone before, and this place called the Kingdom of Words where one should solve a word puzzle before a fairy grandmother would let a stranger go.

One day while the five friends were playing in the garden, they found a lost word “Come” running around aimlessly in the garden, the five children were surprised to see a word that has come alive and they were wondering where it came from. The word “Come” rested on Pio’s shoulder and whispering to Pio, “I am 'Come'; I want you and your friend to help me find my way back to the Kingdom of Words.” Malka was thinking how could it talk and where this amazing skills it had was coming from. “We would like to help you but you must remember where was the last location you got lost?” asked by JD. Joakim almost toppled of what he just saw. Incredible Hulk still shocked shook his head. “Alright my little friend, we will help you to find your way back into the Kingdom,” said Pio.

The five friends and their little friend “Come” followed the trail where exactly it had passed through, and at the end of the road, they found a big old oak tree with a big opening on its trunk, they entered the hole and it was not just an entrance but what they saw was a grandeur bright Kingdom where you could see many words who were stomping, jumping, walking, hiding, and running.

Malka remembered what the old folk’s story about the Kingdom of Words where no one could get out unless he/she solved a word puzzle. “This could be the Kingdom of Words,” said Joakim.

Then from a wagon made of words, seated was the fairy grandmother holding a book of puzzle where one should solve. The fairy grandmother with just a flick of her wrist and wave of her fairy hand opened up the book and all the words bulged out to float on air. The fairy grandmother explained, “Some words have a missing letter and it is somewhere hiding which you need to find, five words you need to complete to solve the puzzle that will be your key to getting out of this place.” “If you completed a word, it will lead you to a clue for the way out of here.” “Here are the five words you needed to solve,” continued by fairy grandmother.

  
_OPE                                                                           M                   L

             BA_BOO                                                           R               T

_ORCH                                                                                   P

           O _EN
                                      F_Y                                                

“These five words will help you find the way out, only you need to fill the missing letter which was somewhere hiding, each must help each other to solve the problem and find the missing letter, once you completed the five mystery words, and you will be able to come out from here,” Said by fairy grandmother.


Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim, and Incredible Hulk seated around to make a brainstorming to solve the puzzle. Pio explained, “I could see an opening from up there, but the problem is we don’t have anything to climb up there, only these five words are our tools, I think the first word is ROPE,” “Yes indeed, you are right Pio,” said by Malka. “I think the second word is BAMBOO,” pointed out by Malka. “The third word is TORCH,” said by JD. “The fourth word is FLY,” shouted by Joakim. “The last word is OPEN?” asked by Incredible Hulk. “Yes we are all correct, we needed a rope to tie those bamboos, a torch to light our way into that dark cave, to say the magic word OPEN to unlock the door, and finally we cling to the word FLY to put us safely down into the ground,” Explained by Pio. Then the five friends looked for the missing letter. Pio found the hiding letter “R” just behind the big rock and he put it to the word OPE to read as ROPE, Malka grabbed the hiding letter “M” under the water and she put it to the word BA_BOO to read as BAMBOO, JD ran after the letter “T” and grabbed it to put into the word ORCH to be read as TORCH, Joakim jumped over the letter “O” and put it to the word PEN to complete it as OPEN, and finally Incredible Hulk chased the letter “L” and grabbed it with his mouth and to put it into the word F_Y to complete it as FLY. The five children excitedly put all the captured letters to join to the incomplete words, they excitedly helped each other to finish the tasks: to tie with rope all the bamboos around to make a ladder for climbing up on the top of the cave, to light a torch to show the way, bringing the word OPEN to say it in front of a shut door, and to cling to the word FLY to bring them down safely to the ground. Below the ground, the fairy grandmother was waiting for the five children, and upon they were lowered down by FLY, the fairy grandmother handed over to Pio, Malka, JD, Joakim and Incredible Hulk the book of the puzzle. “This book of the puzzle, I will give it to you as your reward, this will help you in your everyday life struggle to find solutions to your problems and worries,” said by fairy grandmother. The five children went home bringing the book of the puzzle. THE END.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Keeping Memories Alive

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Keeping Memories Alive

By: Noel N. Villarosa
6 May 2014


At times when we fear of trying
The righteous come to encourage
At times, it seems not worth inspiring
Somebody will cheer and make us to believe

I don’t know what would you like to be
Now you are gone, maybe a butterfly
To bring respite on our despair and agony
Or maybe a kiss and hug as you fondly say

A corsage of beautiful memories
Your words of encouragement will live forever
Evocation of feeling been told in your poetry
I am grateful to know you as poet and achiever

God has called you in heaven
Your family and poetry soup grieved
Safely home, no more grief, no more pain
Poems reconnect us, or in heaven the chain will live


Written in loving memories of our friend in Poetrysoup: Ms. Linda-Marie

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Birthday Sonnet For My Son




By: Noel N. Villarosa

19 April 2014





What is it like to be my little hero?

A morning chat would mean great adventure

A ride with your imaginary aero

Would fly us to places never gone before



Inside your world, we made things possible

We are both so strong to save the world

With unique powers, you are unstoppable

Put an end to villains with your mighty hurled



Within you, I see my own reflection

Full of imagination and a dreamer

Someday your dream would have a clear perception

What best for you, I would be your defender



Every day is like a blink of an eye

At 7 years old, time hastily flies


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