Cell of the Mind

By LaQueisha Malone

LaQueisha Malone is back with another compilation of poetry that relates to love, happiness, relationship issues, and different emotions that will leave you captivated. Sometimes these emotions can be overwhelming, and hold you hostage. Not all emotional captivity is unpleasant. Some emotions can be virtuous such as, love, happiness, joy, and peace.

Her poetry shows her fears, as she expresses her understanding that love has no limits. The many situations she has gone through has only made her a stronger person to recognize appreciate and respect true love because no one is perfect. We are all a little rough around the edges. Some situations may take days, months, even years to face, but until you do you will remain in the prison... Cell of the Mind!

Journey through with poems such as Appointed by the Press, Unexpected Pain, Confusion, Does It Really Matter What I Want, Baby Please Say I Do, Never Judge a Book by Its Cover, I Dream of Genie, and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LaQueisha Malone
• Release date: Nov 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370016051

LaQueisha Malone

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, LAQUEISHA MALONE was born and raised in Arkansas, where she currently resides with her family. She has worked as a Psychiatric Aide at a children’s Habilitation Center for 9 years, and is currently the Education Administrative Assistant at the same Habilitation Center. Writing has always been a part of her life. She began writing fiction stories and poetry about the age of 13. It was her way of coping with everyday situations. She accredits Dr. Maya Angelou for her love of writing poetry. Her poetry has been entered into numerous contests, and many of them were published in book and CD compilations through The International Library of Poetry. She also won many awards for these publications. She taught Creative Writing at The Lighthouse of Wisdom for three years, and has released three books A New Pair of Shoes Step In Mine, Cell of the Mind, and A Walk In My Shoes. Anthologies she has participated in consist of Love, Marriage, & Divorce (Sher-Shay Publishing) and Sex, Lies, & Church (MEP Publishing). She has been featured several times online from Blogs, Radio, and Magazines such as Sledge Rock City, NuSouth Magazine, KnowUrEnemy BlogTalkTadio, The1Essence Radio, Larry Love Show, TUR BlogTalk Radio, One West Radio, Urban Grapevine Magazine, Garden of Eden Magazine, KWEE Magazine, and Strawberry-Lit Magazine. She also taught Creative Writing in her community for 3 years. In 2013, LaQueisha Malone launched her own publishing company STRAWBERRY PUBLICATIONS, LLC. She wants to offer Authors a ripened experience of publishing. LaQueisha was Awarded 2015 Poet of the Year at the AAMBC Literary Awards. Her future goals are to create youth based writing groups and workshops to give the youth a voice.

Book preview

Held Captive

In Part One, Held Captive, my poetry reflects the different types of emotions causing a person to become depressed, sadden, hurt, or even betrayed.  Held Captive reflects poetry I had written during my growth period, as I tried to find love or a need to belong. 

I experienced a lot of heartache, whether it was through family, friends, or acquaintances.  This period of time in my life was hard, but I hope you, the reader, can relate to what I have to say. 

Read poems such as Appointed by the Press, Love from A Distance, Confused, and Where Is the Love?   My goal is for someone to find a piece of themselves in at least one of my poems.  I opened my heart to expose a more intimate side of me.  After all, the word Captive means somebody gripped by a strong emotion such as love or anger. 

There are some situations you go through in life that leaves you imprisoned by the thoughts of everything going on around you.  In your mind, there are times when your problems seem worse than what they really are.  Until you can come terms, and figure out a solution, you will remain in your jail cell of free flowing thoughts.

Some situations may take days, months, even years to face, but until you do, you will remain in the prison…

Cell of the Mind!

Appointed By the Press

My life is a newspaper for everyone to read.

The National Enquirer, the News, everybody sees.

Careful of what I do, and cautious of what I say.

Everything is out in the open today.

If I am nowhere to be found then maybe it’ll all die.

However, I still have to live my life.

So I continue to be in public view

to live a life of a fantasy from you.

Turn the page, and there is a picture of me.

Turn on the TV, and there’s my face looking so lovely.

Open up a book, and read my chapters.

You will never hear my view, because it doesn’t matter.

Watch a movie of the things of my past.

Watch how I grow up, and learned so fast.

I would not change too much if I had it to do.

Someone might learn from my mistakes, maybe you.

Do not hate me, because of other people’s point of view.

Search my soul for reason and meaning of the things I do.

Because I’m Hurt

What if everything you said got through to me,

and I suddenly found out you were using me. 

If everything begin to eat away at me,

and everything wasn’t true that you say to me,

would it be right if I let you stay with me?

How about I leave, and give you everything,

because I don’t want a memory of you and me.

Maybe I should hurt you the way you hurt me.

Do you think that would ease my pain?

Don’t try to use those tired lines on me they’re lame.

You are so lucky I was not raised like that.

I want so much to pay you back,

because you have scarred me and bruised my heart for life.

I would give anything right now for you and I to make it right.

With you being stubborn and full of yourself

you’d never notice, because there’s always someone else.

I wish I could hide my crying.

It is hard, but I’m trying.

A part of me wants you to touch me,

but I’m afraid it’ll break my heart into.

In a situation like this what is a girl to do?

I do not feel bad I feel worse.

I’m confused, because I’m hurt.

An Unexpected Pain

My tears are falling with no name.

My fingers are pointing with no blame.

My mouth can form no words.

My heart is crumbled, and it hurts.

My eyes are in a daze for hours.

All I want is a nice hot shower,

so no one will see me cry.

I don’t even want to talk about it,

because I don’t want to know why.

I swallow my tears so you won’t know.

I hold myself at night when you won’t show.

My eyes are puffy, and something aches

in a long yearning and unfulfilled place.

I hope tomorrow bring sunshine not rain,

because today brought an unexpected pain.

I’m Stuck

Now that I’ve found someone in my life

it seems everyone wants to say it’s not right. 

I don’t listen to them,

but I hear the words they say. 

Sometimes it affects our life day to day. 

I find myself having

nothing to say or do at times. 

He thinks it’s him, but it’s not. 

They have just clouded my mind. 

The more I try to let it go

I begin to mess up. 

It’s not that I’m trying to push you away,

I’m just fed up.