It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night

By Tyrone Turner

109 more poems in honor of beautiful women of color. From butter pecan beige bombshells to hot fudge candy girls.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483523750

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The author, advisers and publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book.

Also, some of the persons mentioned in this book are fictional and any similarities to actual people are purely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by Tyrone Turner

First Edition

United States of America

ISBN: 9781483523750

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART I: THE MORNING AFTER

1.    The Lady That Dances In My Dreams

2.    Compassionate Superwoman Lover

3.    What Could've Been

4.    Fruit Lovers Delight

5.    Player Scared Straight Program

6.    The Flutter of Butterfly Wings

7.    Chocolatier Extraordinaire

8.    My Sexual Psychologist

9.    See You Next Lifetime

10.  We've Met Before

11.  I'm NOT That Dude

12.  Call Me Mr. Goodbar

13.  Law of Attraction

14.  Got the Sunday Blues

15.  Smooth Operator

16.  Feast for the Senses

17.  Dear Mother of Mine

18.  Shaken, not Stirred

19.  Can't Get Over You

20.  I am Akuba

21.  Know My Name; Kweku

22.  Our First Date

23.  What Kind of Man?

24.  The Chance You Never Gave Me

25.  A Breath of Fresh Air

26.  Please, Check Your Baggage

27.  Special Lady-Friend

28.  Can't Make Up My Mind

29.  Emotional Knees

30.  Taboo Arrangements

31.  Classy Lady

32.  You Damn Love Hater

PART II: ZODIAC LOVERS

33.  Dodging Your Ram's Horns

34.  I Love You. No Bull.

35.  Sweet Gemini Love

36.  Tight Cancer Caress

37.  Lovable Leo

38.  Virgin or Vixen?

39.  Red Hot and Ice Cold

40.  Pretty. Sexy. Cool.

41.  Down-to-Earth Woman

42.  Top-Notch and First-Class

43.  Unpredictable

44.  The Catch of My Life

PART III: CARIBBEAN QUEENS

45.  Red, Gold and Green Dreams

46.  Lord! Jamaica Nice!

47.  PR Princesa

48.  Hot Haitian Honey

49.  Belizean Creole

50.  Dominicana

51.  True Bajan Beauty

52.  Black Panama Babe

53.  Bahama Mama

54.  Tasty Mojito

55.  Scrumptious Trini Treat

56.  Sweet Dutch Chocolate

57.  My Ebony Empress

PART IV: LET'S DO IT AGAIN

58.  Big Girls, Please Grow Up

59.  Your Smile Hides Your Thoughts

60.  That Something Special

61.  Listen to Your Heart

62.  The Thrill of the Hunt

63.  Third Time Around

64.  Tricks Are for Kids

65.  Love Doesn't Love Me

66.  Is the Grass Greener?

67.  You Have Been Busted!

68.  What Happened to Us?

69.  Can We Fix It?

70.  Straight With No Chaser

71.  The Point of It All

PART V: INTRODUCING LANGSTON SHAKESBRO

72.  Giving You All of Me for All of You

73.  Our Firstborn Child Who Will Bring Us New Hope

74.  The First Time We Made Love Under Moonlight

75.  A Love Letter Just Because I Love You

76.  What Happens Before, During, and After

77.  The Lamentations of a Broken Heart

78.  From that First Day, I Knew You Were Mine

79.  I'm So Sorry and Want to Come Home

80.  Grits and Pasteles Go Great Together

81.  You Trashed My Forget Me Nots so F*ck You!

82.  A Lady In the Street…

83.  I Don't Want to Be Friends

84.  Deflated and Dejected

85.  Let's Get Physical, Girl

86.  Meat & Potatoes

87.  Fascinating

88.  Don't Be So Mean

89.  Scuba-Scuba

90.  She Likes to Watch

91.  Just Do It, Do It, Do It

92.  Random Sex

93.  Urban Cowgirl

94.  Booty Call

95.  Spooning

96.  May I Take Your Order, Please?

97.  Tasty, Tantalizing Chocolate

98.  Mile-High Club Lovin'

99.  Just One Chance to Love You

100. Batida Dulce

101. Shake It Up Just Like That

102. Cougar Cuddling

103. It Never Gets Old

104. The More the Merrier

105. C'Mon and Marry Me

106. Love and Lust

107. 3 is a Magic Number

108. The Rule of 3

109. It Takes Two

WORKS CITED (In order of appearance)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DEDICATION

This is dedicated to all Black and Latin women all over the world. Thank you for the inspiration.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to my elementary school, middle school and high school English teachers, who encouraged me to write creatively. These folks helped me learn how to turn on the faucet of my inner self and let my thoughts pour out through my pen.

Thanks to the all of my supporters who have given me the necessary ingredients to cook up the poems in this book.

PREFACE

This is a follow-up to my first digital poetry book, For the Love of Women of Color. Like my first book, all poems are written for and about Black and Latin women. There is absolutely nothing wrong with women of other races, colors, nationalities or ethnicities. I have just chosen to reference Black and Latin women. These are the women with whom I've had the most exposure. Therefore, I will talk about that which I know about.

INTRODUCTION

The poems in this book range from romantic to erotic, from being apologetic to suffering heartbreak, love to lust and just plain trash talking. In most of the 109 poems in this book, the title of the poem is always in the last line of the poem. Sometimes the last two lines may even rhyme, but not always. This has been my signature that I started back in the 1990s.

Some of the poems are written as conversational prose to create a vivid mental picture in the reader's mind. To accomplish this I rely heavily on the use of simile and metaphor. Some examples of poems where I endeavor to do this are The Lady that Dances in My Dreams, Compassionate Superwoman Lover, and Call Me Mr. Goodbar.

I also have a few Rhyme Scheme Poems – poems where every two lines rhyme. These are not Hip Hop styled raps. They are conversational and meant to be spoken, not yelled. Some of the poems written in this style are What Could've Been, The Flutter of Butterfly Wings, and I'm NOT that Dude!

In this book, I will introduce you to two poetic styles that I created. The first is called Haiku Chain Poems. A haiku is a Japanese form of poetry composed of three lines with a total of 17 syllables. The three lines have 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables respectively. What I do in a haiku chain is to connect several related haiku together to create one larger poem. I am very proud of this innovation that I created. Law of Attraction, Can't Get Over You, Smooth Operator and I am Akuba are a few of the poems written in this style.

Speaking of Akuba Annan, she is a supernatural person that I wrote a short story about called Corporate Casanova. The story is posted on my blog at www.tpegonline.com. I'm also working on a short story featuring Akuba's male personification, Kweku Annan. There is a haiku chain poem in this book entitled Know My Name; Kweku. There is a soon-to-be-posted short story featuring Kweku will be called Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Follow my blog to be one of the first to read this story.

I also created a style of prose with a dash of rhyme that I call See & Say Poems where I start with a short scene (prologue) that is written as prose then I go into the rhyme scheme. Shaken, not Stirred, A Breath of Fresh Air, and Classy Lady are written in this style.

In this book I am introducing a style of poetry that I call Triple Rhyme Poems. They differ from traditional rhyme schemes in that every three lines rhyme instead of every two lines. Third Time Around, The Point of it All and Tricks Are for Kids are written in this style. Finally, I write some poems as Sonnets and Limericks. Our Firstborn Child Who Will Bring Us New Hope is an example of a sonnet and the Libidinous Limericks series are examples of limericks. A sonnet is a 14-line poem where each line is 10 syllables each. They also follow the following rhyme pattern: AB; AB;CD;CD;EF;EF; and GG.

According to Dictionary.com, a limerick is a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet (e.g., AABBA). Three Is a Magic Number is an example of a limerick.

I am oftentimes asked where I get my inspiration. Well, I am inspired by the things I see and hear about, friends, family, acquaintances, and coworkers. I've been proverbially cooking-up so many poems on request, folks have started calling me The Iron Chef of Poetry as they will give me a concept or a phrase then I'll write a poem built on that ingredient. All praises due to the MOST HIGH, from whom all blessings flow, for this talent.

This book is divided into five parts: The Morning After; Zodiac Lovers; Caribbean Queens; Let's Do It Again; and Introducing Langston Shakesbro. The people and events depicted in this book are fictional. Any similarities to real people are purely coincidental.

Also, take note that song titles appear in light blue italics. The light blue italics indicate a song title, the name of a TV show or film, or a book title. I set up a Works Cited page where I list the song, TV show, movie, or book title, along with the corresponding singer, star actor, or author. This way you'll have a greater appreciation for the flow and creativity put into the poetry – not that the poems aren't cool enough already.

Enjoy the book!

There is nothing like the morning after having a wonderful night with the one you love. There are 32 poems in this section. Enjoy!

Sometimes you work with someone whom you have a crush on. Thoughts of them keep you awake and night and day dreaming on the job. This poem is about that kind of situation.

1. The Lady That Dances In My Dreams

I can't breathe.

All the woman that you are has taken my breath away.

When I first laid eyes on you, I noticed how your voluptuous body had more curves than a winding mountain trail.

Your skin is a lovely pecan tan and your adventurous, alluring eyes are almond brown.

Wow…

You got me talking about pecans and almonds because the vision of you drives me nuts!

Your voice is soft, sweet and everything you say is a sweet melody.

Mmmmm…

Your perfume is intoxicating and every time I walk pass you in the corridor I inhale deeply so I can savor the scent of your sweet perfume.

When you squeeze my hand or pinch my arm to say, Hello to me, I'm paralyzed by your touch.

You so excite me.

Honey, you appeal to my senses.

You look good, sound good, and smell good.

I oftentimes fantasize about how good you must feel and how good you must taste.

Your sugary