two.poems.

several months back, two of my friends unwittingly involved (dragged) me, yet again, into their never-ending competition. living on their adage of competition is life, they never run out of things to contend against.

this time, they're going at it on anagramming. i didn't know then that it was all about anagramming. they just sent an email asking me to unbiasedly judge, and maybe, critic their poems.

that's it. just like that, without me knowing that those poems were actually anagrams of their personal favorite songs, i dived into their poems and tried to make sense out of them (not easy! especially if they were not really meant to make sense). talk of competition again, those songs were inadvertently borrowed from rivermaya and eraserheads.

these are their poems (anagrams).

ninoy's foe outworn
enteng's alive to bed her

so, here's my long overdue rating based from my own set of criteria:

foe outworn

• irony (10%) = 9.6
• insensitivity (35%) = 25
• imagery (10%) = 7
• phoniness (37%) = 37
• metaphor (10%) = 2
• unintentional fallacy (2%) = 2
• symbolism (or lack of) (2%) = 1.6

score: 84.2/106

alive to bed her

• irony (10%) = 7
• insensitivity (35%) = 32
• imagery (10%) = 9
• phoniness (37%) = 37
• metaphor (10%) = 2
• unintentional fallacy (2%) = 1.3
• symbolism (or lack of) (2%) = 1.8

score: 90.1/106

winner: ki bonks alano pa man giraray ako.

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if it counts, here's my shot at futility to anagram my name.

antondanieldarilay.

anna died rationally.

i am not sure though if it makes sense at all.