Anger Management: A Collection of Urban Poetry
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The book delivers all the twists and drama that can be found in a typical romance novel. Fantasy and reality collide. Morals are stirred in the pot of hells kitchen as raw emotion bubbles over into words of life, religion, love and passion.
The author re?ects on the impact hip hop and pop culture have on todays society, especially those who are African American. In some poems, different characters of people come into play. Th ere are poems spoken in the voice of ex cons and video vixens, lost church members and crooked pastors, liquor store prophets and ancient Romeos, the angry black woman and the black woman in heat. All this and more can be found in this poetry book ?lled with endless possibilities.
Arose N Daghetto
Arose N Daghetto was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the youngest of five children. Her performing arts journey began at a very young age. At age nine, she became a classical violinist for her school orchestra for several years. About a year later, Arose wrote her first series of “kiddie skits” about the daily happenings in the schoolyard. Her teacher was so impressed by her works that she granted Arose and her friends some free time in the day to read her short plays to the class. At age 17, Arose’s play, “Let My People Free!” was selected among four winning plays for the annual George Huston Bass Play-rites Festival at Brown University. The play was based on one slave’s radical plight to flee his master’s plantation while taking as many slaves as possible along with him. Arose worked under her dramaturge for the play, former actress and Providence resident, Sylvia Ann Soars, who worked alongside Esther Rolle, Lou Gossett Jr. and many other headlining celebrities during the 1970’s. Ms. Soars also appeared on several shows during the era, including the hit show “Good Times’. Arose’s play earned her a place at Brown University’s theatrical history by being the youngest winner ever to win the contest and have a play performed at the Ivy League University. Arose received high praises from the artistic directors of the theater department, which included former Artistic Director Elmo Terry Morgan and Karen Baxter and Marsha Z. West, a prominent Artistic Director for an Off- Broadway multicultural theater in New York City. In addition, Arose also received accolades from other local college professors and high school teachers, the Providence School Board of Education, former city mayor (Vincent Cianci), local newspapers, radio and cable access shows. Arose holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. She also has done some post-graduate work in Professional Communications in Worcester, Massachusetts. Some of her poetry was featured a few anthologies through the International House of Poetry and Nobel House. Her short story, “Rendezvous with Poverty” received an honorable mention through the My African Diaspora organization and was featured among an international collection of other upcoming writers entitled, Bloodlines: Tales from the African Diaspora. Arose N Daghetto continues her enduring love for the literary arts through her Facebook fan page, “Literature Voodoo” which consists of some of her work and others from across the globe, including Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean. She is also on a passionate mission to breathe positive life into the negative images of African-American women through her blog site called The Black Women Are Beautiful Theory. In her blog, Arose reveals the sensitivities of Black women psychologically and emotionally while debunking the age-long myths that’s plagued their beauty for hundreds of years. You can read more of Arose N Daghetto and her work at Facebook.com/arosendaghetto, Twitter.com/arosendaghetto and http://blackisbeautifultheory.wordpress.com/
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Anger Management - Arose N Daghetto
© 2011 Arose N Daghetto. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.
First published by AuthorHouse 9/21/2011
ISBN: 978-1-4343-8645-8 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4634-0534-2 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-4634-0535-9 (e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011906939
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Contents
WORD OF THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
RESURRECTION
Life
AN EX CON’S JUBILEE
THE LIONESS
GHETTO GIRL LOST
THE UNSUNG HERO’S BLUES
A LETTER FROM DEATH ROW
BLACK GIRL, INTERRUPTED
AFTER THE HURRICANE
THE PRINCESS’S LAST CALL
YOU OWE ME
STRING BEAN
BIG MAMA’S BLUES
COLLARD GREENS AND RUSTY WATER
MY MARY JANES
BE FREE
YOUR WORST ENEMY
DO OR DIE
LEST WE FORGET
WITH THESE TEARS
BIRTH OF A LEGEND
CHASING THE HABIT
TOKEN BLACK
DEPENDENCE SUCKS!
VÉU COMPLETO (FULL VEIL)
THE ABYSS
SIMPLE
I GIVE
NO APOLOGIES
SHOOTIN’ THE BREEZE
INTIMACY
STEREOTYPE
SPITTING VERSES (AGAINST THE BRICK WALL)
Religion
A LETTER TO THE SHEEP
ODE TO THE PROPHET
THE JILTED BRIDE
TEARS OF AN ANGEL
HAIL TO THE QUEEN
AFRICAN BLUE
TONIGHT
DELILAH’S RAPTURE
ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA
THE HOUSE THAT CHURCH MONEY BUILT
A REBEL WITH A CAUSE
THE CHOSEN ONES
ORDER MY STEPS
LET’S PLAY CHURCH
PRELUDE TO MIDLIFE
THE ONE
Love
MY PRAYER
THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT
TEACH ME
THOUGHTS OF GOLD
A LETTER FROM OTHELLO’S PAST
LADY MISERY
ODE TO THE BLACK WOMAN
FOR THE BROTHERS (WITH LOVE)
A VOICE IN THE WIND
PLAYA OF THE YEAR
HOLDING MY HAND
TELL ME A BEDTIME STORY
MISSING
INTEGRATION
HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO THE SOUL
BRAIDING HIS HAIR
A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
A BALLAD FOR A YESTERDAY THUG
MY DESIRE
YOU AND ME (WITH NO HOOCHIES IN BETWEEN)
THE BLUEST BROWN EYES
Passion
VOODOO
BETWEEN MY THIGHS
SEXY SAXOPHONE PLAYER
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
VIDEO GIRL
I AM
THE LONELY VASE
TOUCH ME THERE (I WANT YOU TO)
TASTING YOUR LIPS
URBAN JULIETTE
PRETTY BOY
MELON
EXOTIC DANCER
MY FAVORITE PUPPET
SUPER FLY HIGH
MY BUBBLE BATH
TALL DARK AND LYRICAL
ONE MORE ‘GAIN
Epilogue
S.O.U.L.
WORD OF THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To God, I couldn’t have written this or any of my other works without your grace and favor guiding me along the way. I still wrestle with You and Your people, but hopefully I can let go of the past so that we can have a close relationship again.
A big THANK YOU to Uncle Sonny and Aunt Sarah for your support and investment in my book. Without you, this book would still be an unread manuscript taking up space on my computer. I appreciate your help so very much.
To my niece Vanessa Jones… Thank you for taking my pictures when I know you had better things to do. Thanks for the encouraging words.
To Jonathan Burnett II…. Thank you for your enduring friendship. You are dearly appreciated and loved. You will always have my support in all your endeavors.
Thank you Authorhouse for giving me this opportunity of independently be a published author. Hopefully the days of having my writings published in random book anthologies where my work is lost in a sea of other upcoming writers is over.
My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her; yea, the queens and the concubines, they praised her.
-Song of Solomon 5:9
RESURRECTION
She hangs high in the air on a rugged cross
Overlooking the streets she’s walked
Upon her head are a crown of thorns
Underneath the violet skies
Hours slipped away with the sun
A heavy downpour is unleashed
Washing away dry trails of bloody tears
That stained her war-torn face
Hail thrummed like heavy metal
On top of her head
Slashing her face without mercy
She cried at the thunder and lightening
Black shadows encompassed her
With a frightening dance of death
People screamed as they ran for shelter
Her eyes closed to embrace the inevitable
A bolt of lightning struck the cross
Sending her plummeting into the earth.
Her body hit the muddy ground
Rattled with breath crushing trauma
She stumbled through the winds
And some brave casualties
Who never found shelter from the storm
She saw the aftermath on the horizon
She walked away from the cross
As a woman who cheated death
Her feet fearlessly rapped against the dirt
Hurdling over blankets of corpses.
With tongues of fire she lifts her head
Removing her crown of thorns
She thrusts a bloody fist into the air
With all eyes on her she speaks to the nation…
Life
People say, Love makes the world go ‘round
. I say people make the world go ‘round. After all, they are the reason why we have this thing called Karma…
AN EX CON’S JUBILEE
Segregation may have bound me
But stimulation is what found me
Saying to these boundaries
I refuse to be your victim.
Selah may be the biblical
But payola is the critical
Bottom line to the hypocritical
I refuse to be your victim.
Voices may have my intellect
Claiming this debt mine to collect
I’m telling you I’m innocent!
I refuse to be your victim.
Wage a war against another league
Stop taking away the air I breathe!
Yesterday can no longer stop me!
I refuse to be your victim.
If the revolution won’t be televised
And Gomorrah has been Sodomized
Only I can preach words that’ll make my dick rise
To the occasion, yes! I refuse to be your victim!
This go getter flunked the equity line
So take my name off the dotted line!
Every one of you can put my credit on decline!
I refuse to be your victim.
Mama’s baby, daddy’s maybe
This outlaw tramp corrupted another lady
I got enough love childs to out-bunch the Bradys
Nevertheless, I refuse to be your victim.
Take it to the bank or out on the streets
I’m standing strong on my own two feet!
Life’s been more bitter than it has been sweet
Yet I still refuse to be your victim.
And as I walk on like I got it goin’ on
I’ll continue to march to the beat of my own song
Because I know I’m right where I belong
Yes I’ll keep on keeping on… I refuse to be your victim.
THE LIONESS
I am seen as the nation’s enemy
The Black man’s archenemy
Women are afraid of me
Because I have a lot of bite in me
I can wear people down
In any argument hands down
I keep it gangsta when people are around
And keep it light when people aren’t around
I roar louder than any man!
I hiss sharper than any woman!
I am the biggest, baddest animal alive!
So endearing and quiet but will eat you alive!
Some call me the daughter of Shaka Zulu
‘Cause I speak the art of war in the tongue of a Zulu
I am a huntress ready to draw blood at any time
And a river of tears without failing one time
I got an inner city jungle living inside of me
Eager to break out this cage detaining inner city me
I hail as the world’s most wanted man eater
Sedition is the bait that brings out the man eater
All eyes on me as I ascend my inner city throne
Queen of the jungle I shine before my inner city throne
Only justice served can tame me into a gentle lioness.
Abolishing the laws that made me a savage lioness
GHETTO GIRL LOST
Pardon me
While I squeeze by…
It’ll only take a second.
Don’t mind me,
I’m just trying to find my place
In this society.
You see,
There are certain places
Where I don’t belong
And other places
Where I do belong.
It feels like a game
of musical chairs…
I’m walking in circles
With my heart in my throat
Waiting for the music to stop
Because it’s easy to blend in
But difficult to be ass out
And there’s nothing worse
Than being ass out.
Someone told me,
If I hang in there
And keep rolling
With the punches
Then somehow, someway
These big ole hips
Will shimmy its way
Into the right places…
So I raised up
And