Cloud Formations: Cumulus & Cirrus
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Authors
Olegario, Charlayne-Aye
Issue Date
2025-04-03
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Cloud Formations: Cumulus & Cirrus is a creative project that combines works of
prose and poetry produced in Creative Writing (FA2024), Poetry Workshop (WI2025), and
personal writing sessions.
Cumulus: In Constant Transformation explored themes of home and sense of place,
largely rooted in physical descriptions, and was heavily influenced by a month-long trip to
the Philippines in the summer of 2024. It contained fiction, such as “I Breathe, Therefore I
Think,” a 963-word short story told in the perspective of a flower reflecting on life. It also
contained creative nonfiction, such as “Anong iniisip nila?” (English translation: “What are
they thinking of?”), a 620-word poem in the form of a list of 40 questions wondering if trees
in the Philippine countryside were sentient.
Cirrus (in progress) deals with internal conflicts of doubt and courage, seeks to find
comfort in the illogical, and is an open exploration of the art of poetry. Most of these works
are creative nonfiction, such as “Architect,” a 280-word poem describing a city formation
on a bedroom floor.
Cloud Formations will refine all literary works written in the past five months and the
following months leading up to Honors Day. These collection titles take on the shapes of
clouds to touch on their ever-evolving existence, much like the emotions, thoughts, and
stories we tell of ourselves and the fictional worlds we seek solace in. There is uncertainty
in them, but they are beautiful, nonetheless.
The project will be presented in the form of a book and include original artwork
(drawings, paintings, and photographs), and it will be personally designed to bring out the
strengths of all its pieces. In a presentation-type of session for Honors Day, the student will
read and discuss the making of 3 selected works and hand out a few physical copies for
audience members that want them.