Gisela+Giolafina

==="Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke you've lost the whole thing." -William Stanley Merwin- ===

__**Poem 1 (revise)**__
"Ready, Set, Go!" The wind brushed my face, Then the gravity pulled me down with it, Made me hugged the concrete ground with my skin.

The pain that pierced through like a knife, The sharp pain from my legs and hands. Then did I stood up strong like the tree after a storm, Though the gravity tries to make me one with it I stood back up as a strong tree.

This outer part of me hide the pain and tears, This hard strong skin cover this inner emotion with all its might. Though the pain is in the inside, It's as if the surrounding understood.

They also stood strong giving courage and power, Standing strong no matter what. Not letting be one with gravity, Tries to fight gravity until the victory has been taken from it.

This tree with the scar, This tree with painful emotion, Still could not be together, Still felt left out from all the surrounding trees.

Enjoying the breeze of the wind, The cool wind that let the leaves brushed each other. The trees that gave courage are now starting to get far away. Gravity This TREE will not lose even after this tree become LIFELESS.

__**Ode to my journal**__

Whenever I feel down, Whenever I have an idea, Whenever I want to write, You are there.

You have always been there, You are my best friend, The greatest best friend I could ever have. Makes me wonder if I'm worthy of you.

I don't have to hide my self, I don't have to keep everything to myself, I could just be open, I could just be me.

I appreciate your presence, I appreciate your existence. Thanks for everything. Thanks for letting me be me.

__**Rift Poem**__
"**One Boy told me"** ~ **Naomi Shinab Nye**
 * "What does minus means? I don't want to minus you"**

What does minus means? I don't want to minus you I want you to always be here By my side with me

To comfort me To hug me To love me To always be there for me

I don't want to minus our relationship I don't want to minus anything about you I love you the way you are I love your presence that's always with me

The way you look at me The way you smile at me The way you comfort me And the way you love me

__**Sonnet**__ Here I am waiting for you sitting down in the dark Why aren't you here shining me with your bright light? Taking me from this painful darkness that holds me captive How long do I have to wait for you in this darkness without light? Should I keep on waiting or should I start searching? The clock keep on ticking farther and farther away from me I'm getting impatient, I'm getting tired of waiting for you It makes me think that all the wait I did for you are useless I just wasted all the precious time waiting for you I am now lost in confusion full of darkness Being keep on pushed closer to the edge of the cliff Deciding whether to jump off, walk away, or to search for you Who are you? Please, pull me away from this darkness Please take me to your beautiful bright place, Oh True Love

__**My Poem Analysis** __


 * Poetry can be use for many things. To make a poem can be use from anything. Things from the private life and things that are out in public. Poem can be about the emotion and secret that you couldn’t tell anyone and have to tell it through the poem, to get the point of the poem across doesn’t need to be told word by word. In the poem metaphor, compressing and a lot of other things can be used so that the secret can still be understandable but yet understandable. The way other people read poems is different. That way each poem can have so many different meanings that you might never think about. **
 * For my poem I wrote everything based on how I think about one topic. I used my real emotion in my poetries. When I do not want to be obvious to the reader or I don’t want to truly show my true feelings, I would use metaphor and use object to show my emotions. By doing that, I feels that I can truly express myself and not afraid to be judge by others. By using objects as metaphors, it makes me feel as if I am as strong as the objects are, they might be objects that we see, that we use everyday. However, once you start to think more deeply and connect them into your lives, you will feel more confident about yourself. **
 * I also like to write about love. It doesn’t matter whether a person had felt the true love that everyone had. Whether they had experience it or not they can still imagine. They can still imagine how it would feels like. I am also like to imagine how it would feel, how the pain of true love would feels like. I show my opinion and thoughts through the poems. Poetry is just another way for me to communicate to the world and be myself, think however I want to think. I feel as if I can connect with everyone else by showing my emotion through my poems, that is the reason why all my poems filled with emotion. **

I'll be doing kimiko hahn (mother's mother)