April Beauty
April 1986
This poem was written by our Mother when April, our youngest was eight years old.
April Beauty
By: Dr. Lourdes D. Servito (Jan. 30, 1994)
One April 13 proves to be lucky;
As a beautiful baby came to be.
My 3rd treasured gift divine;
I labored for hours in pain.
You made your first cry then.
In this world, just in time, for
That was almost my last breath.
God had it His way that
I would be able to see,
My own “April Beauty,”
Yes, I named you April,
Maria April Sunday to be complete.
But as you showed your bedimpled face,
Everybody calls you “April Beauty.”
You are indeed endowed with
Precious gifts – beauty, talents
Charm, alertness, and brains.
As years go by, you are
Growing to be more and more
A pretty girl of everyone’s dream,
Developing more talents and skills.
Soon you’d be reaping great laurels,
As I envisioned to be
Yet life has other challenges,
You have to be prepared always,
Use your divine endowments
And be the kind God has
Planned you to be.
April Beauty
This was another poem she wrote 11 years later.
MARIA APRIL SUNDAY
BY: Dr. Lourdes D. Servito (Nov.05, 2005)
Maria April Sunday is the 3rd and youngest;
April-born, specificallyon the 13th, Sunday in 1986,
Regal and arrogant nose, double dimples, lovely face.
Interesting personality, wholesome young lady;
April Beauty, I fondly call her since infancy.
April for short, born same month with her Dad,
Prel for shorter; she’s female “junior” of Domingo (Sunday) in calendar.
Religious, brainy, Upian,sweet fighter and nature lover,
Intellectual communicator, artist, writer, gospel teacher.
Like mother, like daughter in many aspects.
Sunday is Domingo (her Daddy) in the old Spanish calendar;
Unique name that holds a story behind;
Nurtured in a gospel-centered home;
Dedicated, patient, frugal and delightsome.
A precious gem of the Servito family;
Yeah, the cute baby now turns to a beautiful lady.
Maria April with the proud parents of their youngest journalist. (UP graduate of B.A. Mass Communications, Minor in Broadcasting)
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When Prel was a little more than one year-old, she pointed to my cute one-year old picture placed on a photo album and said, Mommy, this is me! I said, No, that’s me… and the little girl look at me with wide eyes.
I’m amused that my youngest is not just like who I am but she’s my look-alike… he he he… though she got a little higher nose than mine… he he he
When Prel-prel was a little more than one year old, she pointed to my cute one-year-old picture placed on a photo album and said, “Mommy, this is me!” I said, “No, that’s me… and the little girl looked at me with wide eyes.
It’s amusing to be my youngest daughter’s look-alike… minus the deep dimple… he he he
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I am so proud of you sister in fact I envy you because you are very successful in every way and bless with intelligent and smart children. “You reap what you sow” as it was said.
Hello there sis Emy! Aloha & Mahalo for your inspiring and touching comments. I think you also deserve to have smart kids and I am sure Jazlyn & Dylan are very talented and intelligent so they will soon be reaping success in their own chosen fields. God bless!
A lucky guy will Sunday,someday will choose to marry.. every description written in the poem proves to be true.
I LOvE Sunday,and I’m blessed to have known such a wonderful friend and sister!!