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Carlamarie

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Children done and doing fine. So I re-Located from Dallas, Texas. Though I still sound like a Texan I only miss that Texas lifestyle (and it is a lifestyle) sometimes. My life is filled with art, poetry, literature, music, flowers, lots and lots of laughs and as many rivers and streams as we can sit by.

favourite books

Blues For All Changes- Nikki Giovanni
Love Poems- Nikki Giovanni
Alex Cross Novels- James Patterson
Almost everything by Charles Dickens
Almost everything by Zora Neale Huston
Terry Pratchett- Disc World Series (Cracks Me Up!)
Walter Mosely- Almost Everything
Lonesome Dove - McMurtry (Also cracks me up!)
Melville- Moby Dick
Langston Hughes- Poetry
Etheridge Knight - Poetry
Gwendolyn Brooks- Poetry
Robert Frost- Poetry
Dean Koontz and Stephen King: Because they're fun.
Pearl Cleage- What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day
Alice Walker- Color Purple
Lord Of The Rings

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...to the things that I've lea....

Carla Marie

a message to relay
and I pray
nothing gets lost in the translation
of this tribute

...to the things that I’ve learned along the way


a rag-tag list of truths- the still small voice has graced me with
because I admit, the older I get,
the less I know
so
in the interest of expediency, I will put it as succinctly
as I can
it may be random…
randomly is how I got it though

What’s important, it seems, is not life's final destination
Nor is it the journey that is foremost, per se...
Primary
is what’s retained…
and what’s shared…
and what’s passed on…

Of the things that we learn along the way

 

No Do Overs ...and other truth....

Carla Marie

On the experience of living. Title conveys the message that we must live on purpose; Grown-Ups seldom get "Do-Overs".


Upon being told that I am a poet
Suggested I have my work added
To the local grade school curriculum
meant well but
I think not...

Emily Dickenson
And
Robert Frost
I truly… am not

This is not what I do...

Though I do agree
With Emily
Who aspires to “Dwell in the possibilities”
And with Mr. Frost
I concur that
“The only way out is through”

Like Dylan I “Do not go gentle into that good night"

That’s not what my poems are made of

Racism
Newly Found Love
Motherhood
And
Children he forgot

Addiction
Cocaine
Loneliness
And
Working with what you’ve got

A working man’s hands
A homeless man’s lot
Betrayal
Destruction that genocide wrought

May not always sound nice
But Beloved, it’s life

Life… is what my poems are made of

 

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I wrote 394 days ago

Thanks so much for the encouragement. It is always so great when talented people acknowledge ones talent. Carla Marie view book

I wrote 443 days ago

A wonderful, wonderful compliment. Eloquent... Thank you so much. Carla view book

I wrote 485 days ago

I am taking a break at work and wanted to utilize the time to check out Walk To Paradise Garden. The comments intrigued me, the pitched grabbed me and the very first chapter sucked me in. I look forward to reading more. Highly starred and backed with enthusiasm. Wishing you much good luck- and c... view book

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Congrats Roger! So happy for you. Your friend, Carla Marie view book

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