For My Sister

Daniel Andrade

Table of Contents 

List of poetic devices……………………………………………………………………… 1

Childhood……………………………………………………………………………………...2

  Haiku……………………………………………………………………………………… 2     Lost………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3            Shape/Concrete……………………………………………………………………… 3

 Ode……………………………………………………………………………………….. 4

Dazed……………………………………………………………………………………….5 

Narrative ……………………………………………………………………………….......... 5

Healing…………………………………………………………………………………………. 6

        Sonnet……………………………………………………………………………………… 6

    My Battle......................……………………………………………………………… 7

           free verse..........................................................................................7

Poem Analysis.......................................................................................8

Choice of Three Poems........................................................................9

List of poetic devices

All haiku poems

Shape/Concrete

Ode

Narrative 

Sonnet 

Free Verse 

pg.1

pg.2

Childhood 

When I was a child

There you were smiling at me

As if time was endless

I hear your voice near

As if your playing with me

But it is all memories 

Remember our past

Ran so fast to fly our kite

Raced to see who won

pg.3

My frightful fearful 

father got a call.

 We recklessly rushed 

rapidly to the car  

while my dad seems 

suddenly sad and I 

couldn't consider even comprehending what was happening. We drove on the  freeway fleeting fast as possible to find my mother and  my sisters. We arrived frantically fearful yet foolishly  not knowing what is near. I remarkably remember vividly realizing the rear of the car blown off completely. My sisters in two ambulances and the side of the freeway my mother clumsily carelessly crying historically. I was only a kid at the time and only felt lonely lost and lifeless. Shortly after we went to the hospital and I was left in a

 room alone while my parents

fleed freely fastly to my sisters

 side. Moments later my father 

comes back to me bringing back

 bad breaking news, he kneeled on

 one knee and told me my oldest 

sister Danielle was no longer with us. 

 Childhood

pg.4

Ode to Danielle

I miss you Danielle so dearly 

Your smile as bright as the sun

Skin smooth as butter

Your laughter ringing like bells

I miss it all as if you were never gone

Nothing can compare to you

Nothing at all

You are food of the god a king of riches

You were always the sweetest like candy

I will always miss you Danielle

pg.5

The only people who think there’s a time limit for grief

 have never lost a piece of their heart

Take all the time you need they say

It feels as if I am a sheep without a sheperd

No way to escape this reality

With losing a sister you lose hope

But with time passing you learn to cope

There would be days when I felt every breathe was my last

I flirted with death more times times than I can count

Growing up never got easier

Learning to leave the past in the past like nothing ever happened

As if there was no meaning to life as if it was wasteland

Day by Day with my journey 

I stubbled upon you my lord and savior

Brighter then the sun and strong as the almighty 

Giving me hope that maybe I can see my love ones one day

I promise myself to my sister that we will be together one day

Dazed