The Real Poetic Justice: A Collection of Poetic Expressions

By Lakia Wiggins

The Real Poetic Justice is a collection of controversial thoughts and topics draped in the elegance of poetry written by a round-the-way girl. From honoring and giving insight to specific cultural experiences to encouraging vulnerability and self-love, The Real Poetic Justice opens the heart of a woman and allows the world to feel what's in it. If you've ever wanted a transparent glimpse into the heart of a woman, love, broken-heartedness, or brazenness, The Real Poetic Justice offers that opportunity. It is a bold, in-your-face, yet vulnerable expression. In this collection, one voice speaks for many experiences. This collection offers the voice of poetic justice to those who have not been able to express themselves, defend themselves or understand their counterparts in a very real way. Here, in these pages, justice is served poetically.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: May 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543901849

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Foreword

What is Poetic Justice?

Acknowledgments

The Process

Order of Expression

Ode to the Black Man

The Unharvested Girl

Foolish Eyes

The Real Poetic Justice

Wake Up

Dear Baby Mama

The Queen’s Here

Time to Fly

Letter to Xavier

What's Wrong with My Love

Butterfly Blossom

Seeking After Creation

Love + Fear

I have loved...

Worthy

The Unharvested Girl: The Exposition

© 2014, 2017 Lakia Wiggins.

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Publication date March 2017

eBook ISBN 978-1-54390-184-9

LCCN # 1-4478775371

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For the voices that have gone unheard…

Justice is real and it will be served…poetically.

Contents

Foreword

What is ‘poetic justice’?

Acknowledgments

The Process

Order of Expression

Ode to the Black Man

The Unharvested Girl

Foolish Eyes

The Real Poetic Justice

Wake Up

Dear Baby Mama

The Queen’s Here

Time to Fly

Letter to Xavier

What’s Wrong With My Love

Butterfly Blossom

Seeking After Creation

Love + Fear

I have loved…

Worthy

The Unharvested Girl: The Exposition

Foreword

Poetry is a condition I was born with. I didn’t decide one day that I loved poetry and wanted to write it. Poetry chose me and showed up as soon as I was old enough to write and express myself. Like many others, unfamiliar with a condition that chose you or why, I tried to hide it. Only calling on it when those who knew the gift was ever present made a request of it. Eventually, entering adulthood I tried to stray away from the identity of this condition. I found that the more I ran from it, the more I needed it. I realized that poetry is how my soul breathes. I was suffocating myself. So I started taking quick, short breaths to get my breathing back in stride. I started to like the feeling. The feeling of breathing. The feeling of being alive. So I decided to live through my poetry. To inhale life and exhale through my art. Welcome to the whirlwind of breaths that is my world.

What is Poetic Justice?

Oxford definition:

po·et·ic jus·tice

noun

the fact of experiencing a