Fo'Ur Seasons-Stories of Poetry

By Isna Tianti

This book is a compilation of poems in form of stories written to speak to the heart and minds of people from various walks of life. Fo'Ur Seasons is play on words "Four and For Your Seasons." It is reflective metaphorically of the changes we endure in life; just like the transitions of winter, spring, summer and fall.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Isna Tianti
• Release date: Nov 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9780988490604

Isna Tianti

Isna Tianti is from Cleveland Ohio, reared in Rialto, California. She has been writing poetry since the ripe age of five. Her infatuation with prose began when she learned to read the back of album covers of artists like Stevie Wonder, Smokie Robinson and other gospel artists. She grew fond of words and rhyme which propelled her to put her thoughts and feelings together to formulate poems in form of stories. Some of her poems may be a little controversial but it is never to offend.She hopes her poetry opens minds and hearts to see things from a different perspective.

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Season of Winter

In winter’s season, it can be harsh and cold weather. Everything appears dreary and in an unfertile state. However, like the evergreen tree while alive, we should always be willing to learn about new things and look at life from a different perspective. I took this chapter to write about harsh realities that many people may find difficult to discuss. These are feelings I’ve had on different occasions. Hopefully, it will open minds and shed light as to the issues many of us question and face today. I’ve learned truth is what it is to that person. We may never agree on all issues, but the beauty of that is; it leaves room for candid discussion. I hope you can appreciate my stories of poetry of winter’s seasons.

Don’t Name My Faith

Do I need to give my faith a name or title for the One I claim or believe reigns? If I do will you then refrain from trying to dissect my brain to figure or discern if I’m sane or insane spiritually trained or untrained?

If I must let me spell my faith out or better yet let me show you how I walk it out. Do I need to say I’m Christian, Muslim, or Seventh Day Adventist, that I study Judaism, that I’m COGIC or a Jehovah’s Witness?

Do I need to provide a resume to substantiate my beliefs in order for you to have some relief? Do I need to say I think that Judas was and is the only religious traitor and thief? That I put food up on a golden statue when I know my kids want or need that food to eat?

I know it’s really sad that we have all been deceived, that we have questions like these, but we’re told that we live in the land of the free, that we have freedom of speech and can practice any religious ideology.

So, do I subscribe to things like women like children are to be seen and not heard? Women can teach but not preach? You can save that speech. I am not only called but chosen like Jonah or like Esther to give new birth to new thinking and reach.

See many of the religious ideologies have become written and spoken fallacy, to maliciously confine mankind. Reality is we are not less spiritual if we don’t subscribe to all of the said religious minds.

If that were the case then we all would be sent to Hades for sometimes being low down men and low down ladies. For not worshipping on the Sabbath Day which is Saturday the seventh day of the week, we would all be condemned for not being an herb eater who ate pig or meat, for not taking the gospel to those unfortunate on the streets, for not wearing head garbs and wearing earrings, cutting hair, polishing nails or feet.

Most of us with these views will find it hard to even receive me, because you will say I speak blasphemy well I will offer no apologies.

So, take it up with the One who sent me to dispel your deeds to keep all Gods children from living in what seems like Hell.

Does not the scripture we’ve been given say He that the Son sets free is free indeed? Or am I not to assume that was written for whoever believes?

Maybe we all need to go back and re-read the red and see what the interpreters highlighted that Yeshua said.

All the therapy, psychology and technology in and around the world can never define the thoughts and beliefs of human kind nor can any religious sect define whether the heart of man is genuine.

We are all products of an Ineffable One who created us to be unique and one of a kind….who contrary to popular belief is not only up in the sky, but nearby.

I will not deny my faith base began but will not end with mere Christianity because I realize that the Ineffable One is concerned more with what comes out instead of what goes in and is worn on the outside of me…I look in the book of Deuteronomy…it said although not in red to wear no signs from the