Awakening

By Qwantu Amaru

Poet and award-winning novelist, Qwantu Amaru's 5th volume of poetry deals with one man's awakening after divorce to find his path and higher power. Contains an excerpt of his award-winning novel, One Blood!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Qwantu Amaru
• Release date: Jun 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476486246

Qwantu Amaru

In addition to his first novel, ONE BLOOD, Qwantu has written six volumes of poetry: Lightbringer, Lovelost, After the Storm, Midnight's Shadow, Awakening, and Actual-Eyez. Qwantu is an active member of the outstanding socially active poetry collective Black on Black Rhyme out of Tallahassee, FL. He has performed spoken word in poetry venues from New York to Los Angeles. He is also part owner and one third of The Pantheon Collective, an independent publishing venture dedicated to bringing high quality independent books to the masses while empowering and inspiring other authors to follow their dreams. For more information visit his website www.qwantuamaru.com, follow him on twitter @onebloodbook, join his fanpage: www.facebook.com/onebloodbook, or e-mail him at [e-mail]. Qwantu currently resides in Jersey City, NJ.

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Awakening

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Qwantu Amaru

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Awakening

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Acknowledgements

Thank God for the talent, mind and soul.

Mom and Dad for the nurturing, morals, intellect and insight.

Keith Rogers for the vision.

Friends and family for the undying support.

BackTalk! poetry troupe for the movement.

contents

scars

resignation

solitary

higher power

change

something for the thugs

gone baby gone

a theist

12 months later

one kiss

monster

some things (never change)

no one (compares to you)

eve

Exclusive Excerpt from One Blood by Qwantu Amaru

scars

My tattoos were not fused to my skin

With hues of a burning inkpen

I earned each and every one of them

When you trace them

You can see everywhere I've been

Every single time I've fallen

And gotten up again

I'm going to let you in