The Urban Script: Laugh Now, Cry Later

By Timothy S. Jones

When does poetry stop being just words on a page and speak to the humanness of a people? After the consummation of comedy and tragedy birthsThe Urban Script: Laugh Now, Cry Later. Its not just poetry, its an embracing dance a dance that will not just remind you of the simple beauty of life, but will also recapture those memories that you had forgotten about and renew your passions for what drives you. This is what breathes into the script your livelihood on every page who you were as a kid; what your recollections through adolescence were; and, where you are now in your maturity as an adult. Let The Urban Scriptbe the key to the neo-Harlem Renaissance door that unlocks a whole new literary world to your poetic understanding. Through The Urban Scriptyou should see, experience, and know yourself in and through every poem every line and stanza. Now that you know what The Urban Scripthas in store for you, lay back, relax, and let the poetry of urban uniqueness enrapture you taking you to higher heights and reaching into your deeper depths of understanding.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468574173

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The 

 URBAN 

 SCRIPT

Laugh Now, Cry Later

TIMOTHY S. JONES

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/10/2012

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Contents

Introduction

Introduction II (The Remix)

Reminiscing: Childhood Sweethearts

•   Playground Crush

•   Wildflower Jewelry

Once Upon a Time… : Children’s Stories

•   Talent Town, USA

•   Chocolate Thunder, Whatawanda (What a Wonder)

•   Hide n’ Seek: A Bible Story

•   Sub Urban Legend: The Dating Game

•   What’s Your Wool Worth?: The Expository of B.B. Black-Sheep

High School Love: Remember Those Days?

•   Whispers of the Night

•   Without You, I’m Lost

•   Too Irresistible To Let Go

•   Blinded by Your Beauty, Guided by Your Love

Literature 101: Metaphorically Speaking

•   Testimonies of Black Women: Coal, Sugar, & Wood

•   Stained Glass

•   Open Your Windows

•   Music: Horn Interpretation

•   Le Manoir Elegant

•   Le Manoir Elegant (French remix)

•   Hoop Dreams: A Passion Sport (A Player’s Anthem)

•   Treasuring Another Man’s Trash

•   Honeysuckle: God’s Aroma, A Southern Gift

•   Erica’s Skies

•   Chocolate: A Man, A Woman, . . . A Scintillating Taste

College Years: A Coming of Age For Love and Understanding

•   A Prayer Was Said For You Today

•   The Peacefulness of the Sea

•   Found Below the Surface

•   Dream Preferred

•   Afro: Black Hairitage

•   Galatians 3:13: Jesus Christ & Emmett Till

•   The Niagara Movement 1905-2005: 100 Years of a Rushing Mighty Waterfall

•   The Graduate’s Creed

•   HBCU: Her Beauty Captures Us

•   May We Have This Dance?

•   Beautiful & Bold: Black Widows

•   Soul Lived, Soul Died: Cornelius & His Groove

To Those Who Mean the Most

•   M.O.M.M.A.: My Oasis, My Mere Aspiration

•   He is the Father I am the Son

•   Gathering While We Can: An Alabama Family Reunion

•   The Man Behind the Baton

•   A Seed Sown

•   The Pattern of Our Lives

•   Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood

Love’s Long-Lasting Lyrics

•   Groovatherapy

•   Track 7: Solomon’s Song

•   Woman: It’s You

•   Woman: It’s You (part 2)

•   My Heart: Function & Purpose

•   Phone Calls: Nibbles & Kisses

•   An Intimate Cleansing

•   A Heartfelt Expression of Love

•   Boonk’em: Tribute to the Bruteus Gluteus (A Baaaddd Aaaasss)

•   Swervin’ in My Curves

Days She’ll Remember

•   Her Birthday: A Day for the Ages

•   Twenty-one Candles for a Nubian Princess on Her Birthday

•   Twenty-two Candles for an Ebony Goddess on Her Birthday

•   Will You Carry Me?

•   Will You Carry Me? (Part 2)

•   W.I.F.E.: Worshipping Internally, Fascinating Externally

•   A Covenant Sealed with a Promise

•   The Best Man’s Prayer

•   Valentine’s Questionnaire

•   Anniversaries: Sights, Shadows, and Successes

•   Black Queen: Make Love to Me

•   The Proposal

•   Ephesians 5: God, Glory & Marriage

•   A New Season, A New Year

•   I Saw Daddy Kissing Mrs. Claus

•   If You (Are) Like Me, I Know You’re Gonna Love This

•   Urban Script Dictionary: Prolutheration: Defined

A Bought Lesson

•   Come Home

An Urban Understanding

•   Did He Touch You?

•   It Took 18 Days

•   04051968: April Showers

•   Purple: The Woman, Her Bruises, Her Heart

•   America’s Great Depression, Negroes’ Great Impression

Weekends: Saturdays, Church & the Gridiron Sanctuary

•   Heaven’s Homonym’s

•   Just a Forester Passing Through

•   An Inch Too Short

•   A Barber’s Prayer

Entering Into His Rest

•   Walk With Me Along the Coast

•   May God Wipe Your Tears

•   Back to the Father

•   An Ode to the Champ

Thanks

My Father, God whom has blessed me with the gift of Kings David & Solomon, to write [poetry], psalms, hymns, & spiritual songs (Colossians 3:16)

My beautiful wife, Erica Jones, you keep the candle of my inspiration burning brightly

My immediate family, Peter, Angenell, Tameika, Tiffany Jones & Ishi Coward, who have inspired and encouraged me from my first poem

To the rest of my ‘kin folks’, your support has encouraged me to keep on truckin’ even when the light at the end of the tunnel seemed to get further and further

To all of my friends from Demopolis, AL to Alabama A&M University to North Carolina to Louisiana & everywhere in between; your roles in my life give meaning to the work, "The Urban Script . . ."

About the Author

Timothy S. Jones is an author, psychotherapist, and entrepreneur—par excellence. With a heart to reach into the hearts of his audience, he pours what is in him onto the open expanse of paper. An avid student of fine literature, Timothy diverges himself into various genres, especially with a defined focus in spiritual self-help and African-American literature. Timothy’s hope for all of his readers are that they be drawn into a different world of literary art, but most importantly, they walk away with a new understanding of who and what they can be.

In addition to obtaining two degrees from Alabama A&M University—Forestry Science (B.S.) and Counseling Psychology (M.S.)—Timothy S. Jones is happily married to Erica D. Jones, while living in suburban Huntsville, AL.

Introduction

An avid reader of Harlem Renaissance literature, Blair Washington found an interesting book of poetry in a local New York bookstore. To his astonishment, the writer’s style combined the flavor of Langston Hughes with the pizzazz of Zora Neale Hurston, and the godly morality of James Weldon Johnson. Before purchasing the book, Mr. Washington thought he would read a few excerpts from the literary maestro.

Blair was overwhelmed by the author’s ability to reach deep into any Afro-American person’s livelihood and link these events into a chain of laughter and pain. He felt as if he was on the set of a play or movie, and before him was the script that detailed his life. From an exuberant childhood in Alabama to his first love, his short-lived sports career, and the emotions that flooded his eyes as he remembered lost loved ones; these experiences were in this book.

Being Afro-American was an important