Villanelle

You are in control for what you receive.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
you will only succeed if you just believe

the work you put in will reflect on what you achieve
If you don't try don't complain on how you will stay
You are in control for what you receive

If you don't like something about yourself do something about it, you will be relieved.
you are in charge and will decide if the way you look is yay or nay. 
you will only succeed if you just believe

don't stay hating yourself you are the only one stopping yourself to proceed
you will not get rid of or change yourself if you only pray
You are in control for what you receive
you will only succeed if you just believe

Extended Simile

Seeing you lie there was like staring at a onion
Layers of strength but cancer beneath devouring you
The sting distanced me; too afraid to look as I stayed home from your burial
The burn from knowing you're gone forced the tears to roll down my cheeks.

Internal Rhyme

Papi

We both like ice cream; chocolate swirl, and you know I will always be your girl.
Thanks to you I am the person I've become today, but sadly I'm growing up and I cannot stay,
I love you dad, I always will no matter were am so never be sad.

Imagery Poem

Headaches

Like Zeus striking bolts in your head. An earthquake , a monkey with gigantic symbols smashing them against your head. Like hearing a microphone scretch.

Gravity pulling you down as you walk up the stairs, 10lbs being added with each step.

Unbearable pressure like a lemon being squeezed as your tears roll down your eyes.

The light, sun, and bright sky are your worst enemy.

Begging for mercy and wishing it would go away as you begin trying to lift your head up by pulling your hair.

The beauty of medicine, take 2, a glass  of water, snuggle into bed, in less than a minute you’re gone.

Sleep it all away.

Anafora

I am from

I am from pans, spatulas, dish soap and vacuums  

I am from rose bushes, soccer balls,

kittens that are renewed every time Casey cat has fun.

I am from where imagination was a tool and arts and crafts were party decorations.

I am from cease fire billboards and where it’s become accustom for a young girl to have a child.

I am raised from multiple substitute mommies,

I am from my Tia Chayo and my daddy.

I am from where “seeing is believing” And “you’re not the boss of me.”

I am from where the popular saying is “education is key”

and the horrific saying of “honde esta el fajo.”

I am from Gummy worms, gorditas, frijoles, tacos,

and whoopers in the summer.

I am from the Boys and Girls Club when Jaime was the Director.

I am from four different school where friends come and go.

I am from fake smiles and notebooks that wrote away all disappointments.

I am from those who have came in my path and have engraved a memory in me and still remember how things used to be before things changed, and left a part of them in me.

I am from spanglish and Mocho language,

I am my father’s daughter and always will be no matter where I am.

Epitaph

Here lies Hildelisa Vera 

She will be remembered as an encouraging friend and partner 

Her most best accomplish was a student mentor/counselor and a bakery owner of Lisa's Creations

and lived by the saying "Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." -Hilary Cooper 

1994