Kristina+Chiev

"Poetry is the universal language..."
The first time i saw him, i knew we would be friends.
 * "A Ode to a Friend"**

The site of him makes my day, whenever i'm with him, he takes my fears away.

We've been through thick and thin, Friends til the end.

Your soft face makes you look so innocent just so innocent i want to kiss it. Your hair is so soft and smooth that i just cant stop petting it. Your body is so soft, i cant stop hugging you.

Hugging you until i fall asleep. Waking up with you in my arms, what can be better than that.

Whenever I have to leave I feel so guilty I wish i can have your by my side all day and we never had to part.

Your the light of my life and the soul provide that keeps me going. I hope you'll always be mines, Never leave me, Doggie :D

The world was spinning, time seemed to stop. But everyone was still talking and cars were still driving.
 * "Praise Poem"**

I clutched on tight til the point i thought i would faint, til the point i thought i was going to lose my life.

The colors swirled around me. I was getting light headed. Their was nothing i could do.

Unconsciously I placed my hand in my pocket, only to find thick liquid, filling in my pocket.

All i could think of was the colors swirling. I felt so light headed, like I was floating in the air. Nothing really bothered me, besides the pain.

The last thing I can remember was falling back. Hearing voices yelling, my mom screaming, my hand wet of thick liquid. Next thing i knew it, I thought i was dead

"My heart is like a singing bird" That can easily break Handles no emotion but the ones they give
 * "Riff Poem"**

It's better to give than get because when you get, it's anything From the hatred, from the soul, from the love of their hearts, but for me, im too afriad to take a chance

Riff from "**A Birthday**" by **Christina Rossetti**

The light is fading with my hopes and dreams, nothing seems real anymore besides me. The darkness is taking over my mind, no one is there to help me from this pain. I lost all hope in believing in my friends. Now all i want to do is just to be alone. To be invisible from society, Ignored as if i was a stranger but, cared for as if i was a friend in need.
 * "Truth"**

Even though the light is shining bright Doesn't mean the darkness will fade away Deep inside your heart, is where the truth lies

Even though you find that truth, that is not where the answer lies there is never a true answer to things

In all my poems, i wrote about both sides of everyone's emotion. We never have 1 true emotions, but different kinds. It's just for some people, the 2nd emotions are more aware to everyone. "The light is fading with my hopes and dreams, nothing seems real anymore besides me," everything around a=me seems fake, besides me because i am myself. I've realized these feelings during 8th grade during an incident with my "friends" which left me scarred til now. Now i look at the world with my emotions in every way possible.
 * "Analysis"**

Poet/Poems for essay How I Am Little America Jacksonville, Vermont
 * Jason Shinder**



3 Poem Analysis
Jason Shinder, a poet i picked, write such unique poems. He likes to write about his somewhat dark feelings and the doubts he gets from his feeling. It appeals to me because that's how i am. I show one feeling but have another yet i don't show it to anyone, so things i write express how i feel deep inside. Jason Shinder poems really relates how i feel, so it pulls in people. The ideals of his poems are similar because they explain the other feelings people have that aren't shown but are hidden and they want to express them. Just like the dark side of the feeling, while the concious feelings you show are your light side feelings.

The poem “How I Am” reminds me of how I am with my friends. To me this poem reminds me of how close, yet far my friends are in my life. You want them to be close, but far away also. You don’t want to bring them in your misery, because they are so far, and when they help, they are going backwards to where you are, making you feel little and hopeless. Another thing that this poem reminds me of is that everyone around me is going by so fast, but I’m still here at the spot I started and everyone is far ahead. “Train whistle Passing through the tall grasses and ferns after the train has passed,” Everything is going by so fast, yet I’m still here just watching everything that’s happening. “I never get ahead of their shadows,” they’re going too fast; I can’t keep up with them.

The next poem, “The One Secret That Has Carried” reminds me how I love someone but how I don’t love him or her. You’re getting what your want, but your not sure what you want, everything is confusing and there is nothing you can do. Nothing is too sure, but nothing is too false. But even in the end, you’re not sure of your feelings, so you lie them off and say the only thing you can say. “It was someone else's”, those aren’t my true feelings, I think you’ve mistaken me for someone else.

The last poem “Little American” reminds of how a friend that’s always there is just a friend. He or she doesn’t have to mean nothing more, and they feelings they give off to you don’t mean more than what you think it is. “I am the long neck of the giraffe coming down to see what she doesn't have” I spread my arms out to her to help her with her problems because I am a friend who cares. “She digs her nails into her leather bag to find out where my heart is” she looks for where my heart status is, either if its love or just friendship. “If you love someone, the water moves up from the well” If it’s love you feel, it might not always be true love, just like love of a friend.