I Am...

I AM

I am a lonely granddaughter.
I wonder if I could be just like my grandmother.
I hear people say how alike we are...
I see photos of her and see how beautiful she was.
I want to meet her, someday, in heaven, cause
I am a lonely granddaughter.

I pretend that she is always with me, laughing.
I feel her presence when I am in need.
I touch quilts and clothes that she handmade.
I worry I wont ever be like her, and
I cry knowing I never got a hug and a kiss from her.
I am a lonely granddaughter.

I understand how important it is to never forget her, so
I say to people how wonderful I know she was.
I dream of one day meeting her.
I try to send her balloons to heaven,
I hope she gets them, because that's all I can give for now.
I am a lonely granddaughter.

This Portait poem has evolved into something heartfelt about my Grandmother from my Name piece. Since I was named after her, I felt it suited this situation very well.
In creating the I am poem, I had to do a little research on what a Portrait poem really was. I found some interesting examples and a few good websites that really explained how creative you can be with these types of poems. I took my Name piece in which I talked about who I was named after, my Grandmother. I decided to do an I Am poem simply because in my original piece of the Name activity, I talked about how I felt like people expected me to be like her and instead, I have come to find out that I am simply, me. I started looking at what I Am poems really consisted of and how to come up with a catchy beginning. I basically just took all my feelings that followed along with the generated format of the Portrait poem I chose. It really is an easy way to express your feelings. I struggled coming up with the repetition line simply because I needed something catchy and meaningful. I think I have captured that very well.