Alissa+DiBartolomeo

"Poetry is the universal language."

- William Hazlitt

//**"My Grandmother" By Alissa DiBartolomeo**//

looking at my grandmothers smile hearing her beautiful voice. listening when she screamed, smelling the delightful food she would make. tasting her delightful cooking, my grandmother. feeling the love she would give me, hearing her say them 3 beautiful words, ..... made me feel like my heart was whole.

//**"The day they told me" By Alissa DiBartolomeo**//

The day they told me that you left us was the day i broke down no, you didn't die you just left us you left me dropping to sink in my despair you left me crying turning to a shadow that was never there you think I'm strong oh, how you were wrong you think i wont cry only for you i try but now I'm screaming when she told me we wont be able to see you anymore i felt myself go numb straight to my core i would not cry but this just i sent fair at school i hide my feelings holding in so no one will ask i don't want them telling me its ok because they don't know how it feels you left me why didn't you try didn't you realize that i would cry?

//**"An Ode to Love Itself" By Alissa DiBartolomeo**//

Lust Longing Beauty in thine eyes A feeling that rises from the heart Two people meet. A boy and a girl They laugh Tell jokes They click instantly They fall in love The instant their eyes lock This feeling… It’s so hard to explain Like a Niagara Falls pouring out the heart But made up of hearts, not water It’s the art that brings people together It causes dates, proposals, and then finally marriage. This art it is the center of our lives Without it, we’re lost

//**"A Sonnet to love" by Alissa DiBartolomeo**//

If I could write a sonnet on a star Then bottle it and toss it to the sea Would it travel to the corners of the Earth, And echo there the love I hold for you? If I could write a sonnet on the moon Then bottle it and toss it to the winds Would it find your heart So you may briefly know, Where your love ends Is where my love begins? If I could write a sonnet on the sun Then bottle it and toss it throughout time Would someone from a distant galaxy Find no greater love Than that was mine Yet, I cannot write a sonnet on a star, No moon, or even on the blazing sun, No bottle words to send them Where you are our separate hearts We beat as one.

//**"I do and I don't" by Alissa DiBartolomeo**//

I do and i don't love you, isn't that happiness? I like it when you lift me upside down but i don't like it when you make me frown. your funny when you tell jokes, but sometimes you voice makes me choke. but sometime you make me think. why am i even with someone if i do and i don't love them. when i'm with you its different. but when were apart I think of you and laugh. I do and i don't love you, isn't that happiness?