ASHES OF BURNT EYEBROWS

Vivid memories of my primary years

Mixed with sheer laughter and pure tears

Along a line in every enrollment

Researching a nerve-cracking assignments



Annual field trips in every places

The refreshment of bottles and food cases

So many peers of friendly faces

Unspoiled children with lovely caress



Sleepless nights of hurried reviewing

Some afternoons of daydreaming

Days of battling difficult examination

Pass or failure comes lamentation



Wild fun and sometimes connived fools

Bring our teachers in constant roars

Wonder how I feel to be a Martinian

Your name I'll carry unto my old days



Your young foundation has been heavily tested

But you stood still and never miss

To educate us the core of values

That life is indeed has countless of clues



My gratitude to you I sincerely offer

For an education I have deciphered

That study is indeed a countless of

Unending ashes of burnt eyebrows

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This was the poem I created last March 21, 2006 and delivered to TCMAI students by my clever student Ephraim Ders Murro-Grade 5 during graduation ceremony as a poem recital of a first honor pupil.

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