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I began writing in personal journals about ten years ago; I started writing poetry about fouryears ago. “Conversations of The Soul” allpoetry.com/list/26619 highlights my personal journey as I struggle with mental illnesses, thoughts always racing within; eventually the depression isolated me from others. Which I think the demons of my past of being verbally, physical and sexually abused has played a big roll in it. I believe "Conversations of The Soul" highlights the power of spiritual faith and hope having the strength to survive all that I have endeavored.

Writing "Conversations of The Soul” was a major achievement for me. I had very little self-esteem or confidence; I was angry and verbally aggressive. I am not going to sit here and say that writing my poems cured my burden soul and trouble heart It’s a survival; healing tool. What writing enabled me to do was to get in touch with me, reclaim my life, and start that long slow process to believing I am someone.

"Conversations of The Soul" enabled me to realize that I can write and my words do affect those around me in a similar way, many people have said that my words "speak to them", I make them “feel the sorrow, and pain.” but finding comfort and at the same time. Since writing I continue to write and find it very therapeutic. Through doing this book I am now going to start breaking down barriers, which have long held me back, it is time for me to make my stand in this world, to show others that have gone through the familiar thing, it’s going to be Ok.. They will survive, like I did. I would say writing has changed my life.  

Special Thanks to Rev. W. T. Jackson allpoetry.com/poets/turtledove

with editing and support for this soon to be published book..

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shakes-spear my brother www. allpoetry.com/poets/Shakes-spear
tali28 = My (new ) sister-in-law www. allpoetry.com/poets/Tali28
masterblaster my mum www. allpoetry.com/Poets/masterblaster
pinky my sister www. allpoetry.com/poets/-Pinky-
tesoro my sister and pinky's twin www. allpoetry.com/poets/-Tesoro-
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  GREAT POETS HERE AT ALLPOETRY:

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allpoetry.com/poets/Andy%20Stephenson
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AND THERE ARE SO MANY MORE THESE ARE JUST SOME
OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD....

TOP 10 FAMOUS POETS:


1. T. S. Eliot

"The Waste Land," by T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), is possibly one of the greatest poems ever written. It expresses a bleak vision of a sterile and corrupt modern world. This poem is one to read sitting in a dingy caf? on a dark and rainy night at 2 o'clock in the morning!

2. Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) is one of the most influential modern poets, yet her life was a short and unhappy one. She attempted suicide aged 21, and managed to kill herself ten years later by gassing. The death of her father when she was nine years old greatly influenced her life and poetry, as can be seen in poems like "Daddy,""Lady Lazarus," and "Ariel."

3. Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a longer and less dramatic life: he was vice-president of a law firm for 21 years until his death in 1955, aged 75. He may have been a lawyer, but his poetry, which deals with the role of the creative imagination in the modern world, contains sensuous, elaborate imagery. "The Emperor of Ice Cream" is a good introduction to his work.

4. Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) was a Metaphysical poet who was also well known as a satirist and politician. "To his Coy Mistress" is a rather elaborate attempt by the speaker of the poem to persuade his "coy mistress" to sleep with him.

5. W. B. Yeats

Nobel Laureate W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was widely considered to be the finest poet of his time. He was greatly interested in Irish history and the supernatural, and these are recurrent themes in his poems. Most critics think that the quality of Yeats' poetry improved as he got older. Try reading "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (1893), and "Leda" and "Swan" (1928) to see if you agree.

6. Seamus Heaney

Irish poet Seamus Heaney (1939- ) won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, and was awarded the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his translation of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem"Beowulf." His poetry is highly articulate, and has its roots in the physical, rural context of his childhood.

7. Emily Dickinson


While Heaney has been recognized in his lifetime, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), one of America's greatest poets, had only seven of her poems published while she was alive. Once a high-spirited and active young woman, she withdrew from society at the age of 30 and remained a recluse for the rest of her life.

8. Sappho

Although little is known about her life, it does seem that Sappho (650-590 BC) was well renowned in her day. Two centuries after her death, Plato referred to her as the tenth Muse. She taught her art to asgroupsof young women, and her poems are marked by exquisite beauty of diction, perfect simplicity of form, and intensity of emotion.

9. Dylan Thomas

Someone for whom the emotional effect of words' sounds is as important as their literal sense is Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). A poem like "The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait" shows his concern with vivid, sensual language. He was very much a man of the senses

10. Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's (1819-1892) poem "Song of Myself" also glorifies the body and senses. Whitman was forced to publish the collection that contained the poem at his own expense, but it has become one of the most important poems in American literature.

BEFORE I GO:

God Bless my four beautiful children

Phillip (phillm.com) awesome photographer now residing in NC

"Click away the magic resides in your hands"

Justine (even though we have a falling out )

"I still wish you all the best"

Tanner  Believe in yourself and your dreams

"you are a awesome kid"

Bethany My baby girl..Mommy will always be here..

Thanks for stopping by,

God Bless you and yours,

Brenda