JOURNA LIZ

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This is a poem my Mommy composed when I was a baby.

By: Dr. Lourdes D. Servito (1983)

You’re never expected yet never unwanted,
Just in time you desired to be apart from me,
Not to be away but in my arms you’d stay.
For the past 270 days, your presence within,
Conditioned most of my activities.
At time you were a hindrance;
Yet at times you were a relief.
You’re absolutely a part of me when more
And more challenging tasks were on.
We tackled journalistic works, thick and thin.
Together we did work in between multifarious pains…
Pains that were worth enough to had been endured.
You came out leaving no press work dangling.
We call you Journa Liz, sounding like who I am.
Perhaps you’d like to be another me;
but it’s you who’d decide who you would be.
For sure you’d be yourself and be on your own.

You’re never expected yet never unwanted,

Just in time you desired to be apart from me,

Not to be away but in my arms you’d stay.

For the past 270 days, your presence within,

Conditioned most of my activities.

At time you were a hindrance;

Yet at times you were a relief.

You’re absolutely a part of me when more

And more challenging tasks were on.

We tackled journalistic works, thick and thin.

Together we did work in between multifarious pains…

Pains that were worth enough to had been endured.

You came out leaving no press work dangling.

We call you Journa Liz, sounding like who I am.

Perhaps you’d like to be another me;

but it’s you who’d decide who you would be.

For sure you’d be yourself and be on your own.

This is another poem she wrote 22 years later.

By: Dr. Lourdes D. Servito (Nov.5, 2005)

Journa Liz comes at the midst of my Tres Marias
Our family is proud of her; her unique qualities…
Unusual and superb communication skills,
Resounding personality, sweet and brilliant,
Numerous talents: melodious voice, memory power;
Amiable, religious, kind, sanguine: good speaker, photojournalist,
literary writer, and powerful teacher.

Like no one else, I gave her a unique name,
It fits her…in time she achieves her dream,
Zestfully, she marches with pride at a famed university in U.S.A. not just in name, but in reality.

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The realization of Mommy's words: B.A. International Cultural Studies with Emphasis on Communication, Major in Journalism

The realization of Mommy's words: B.A. International Cultural Studies with Emphasis on Communication, Major in Journalism

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