Reflections of Life

By Rodney D. Edge

Book of Poetry for everyone of all races and creeds. A true cultural experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 29, 2000
• ISBN: 9781462078806

Rodney D. Edge

Rodney D. Edge is an African American male from Washington, DC. He is currently serving as an officer in the United States Army. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Technology from Northwest Missouri State University and a Master of Science Degree from Central Michigan University.

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Reflections of Life

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Contents

Love

Three LoVes

FRISKY

YOU

CLOSER TO YOU

LOVE IS..

LoVe Lost

Passion

Friends and Lovers

My Valentine

Seduction

SEDUCTION

A KISS

Fantasy

Making Love

Red

I Knew

The Encounter

Family

Uncles

MOMMA

Brother

Cousins

Culture

WASHINGTON, DC

CHICAGO

RELIGION

Our Land

My Flava Ain’t Your Flava

NOTES

GETTING IT ON…

JAZZ

THE HOOD

Black

Tranquility

Shadow

Running

SALVATION

Sensation

Joy

Complexity

Gilded Horse

JUSTICE

Keeping Score

They Were Chosen

Thing’s People See

Youth Gone Mad

Freedom

What If?

Women

She

Women

HER

Lady

BEAUTY

BLACK WOMAN

THE DRESS

Beautiful

PRETTY AND NICE

Oneness

My Wife

Marriage Pledge

The One

Becoming A Man

Nature

Nature

A ROSE

WINTER

FALL

SEEDLINGS

Spring

SUMMER

This is a tribute to all the people whose

friendship I cherish, and those whose

caring ways I have come to adore.

Special thanks to all who have inspired

My life in positive ways.

Love

Three LoVes

I met the first as a High School boy…

She was the embodiment of an Olympus God.

Crafted uniquely in every way,

more intriguing than words can say.

With her I graduated to the next level.

Not yet a man, but never the less,

not still a boy.

We walked endlessly on the streets

of our Metropolis.

Never dreamt ofbeaches.

Our walks home were the tranquil

sedative that relaxed us

after a long school day.

We spoke more than we walked.

Oddly enough, words were never

absent when we talked.

We were best friends.

Best friends to the end.

One day we awakened and

began to drift apart.

Although many decades have past,

she still has my heart.

I met the second during the

maturation of higher learning.

Different from the first,

like the sun and rain…

For the first time my

heart experience pain.

She introduced me to manhood.

In my arms she became a woman.

With my first, the grasp of a hand

and a smile were enough.

My second taught me the

true essence of touch.

My second was probably

the one to be.

She was a polygon trapped

in a prism of light.

Some days I would embrace

her with all my might.

Until the day her touch

felt empty.

Because of something I did

that was so silly.

We still planned a future

that seemed so bright.

I was still not the proposing kind,

I was aloof, without vision and sight.

She took a journey and left

me alone.

If hindsight were my future,

today I would echo a different tone.

My last love I have

yet to meet.

The fairy-tale bride to sweep

me off my feet.

My life companion, the true

love I seek.

I pray I have corrective

vision this time when we meet.

I can’t picture what she will be like.

But I relish a happiness seeming unlike.

Anything I ever experienced with

the initial two.

Something borrowed, Something blue.

FRISKY

She was mine, but not in the

be mine frame