Understanding Him Through Poem & Reason

By Stanley Keith

In this book of select poems, Keith captures the soul of Lovers, Love, relationships, conflict and resolution. His intriguing voice envelopes you with a warm depiction that seems to tell a story, which he and others have lived.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 27, 2012
• ISBN: 9781462083701

Stanley Keith

Born Stanley Keith Singleton from East Saint Louis Ill., Stanley begain writing poerty at the age of seventeen. Realizing he had a gift, Stanley continued writing poetry and moved to Los Angeles, California at the young age of eighteen. He has preformed at Marla Gibb’s Cross Roads. Commissioned by the Los Angeles Olympic Committee to perform at the Inner City Cultural Center, in the Poetry Production- Men and the Women They Love. Today he continues to reside in Los Angeles.

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Intentions

My Adulteress

All I Had

Open Eyes

Wanting & Needing

Let Me Talk…

Thieves And Slaves

Love Thief

The Response

Morning Note

Four Seasons Of My Husband

On The Other Side

The 5th Season

I Can’t Tell You

Unusual Woman

How Real Is This All?

Missing You

Wet Morning

My Rose

Fool’s Pride

Must I Fly Alone

Lovers Haven

Let Me Go

Forgive Me

Be Still My Heart

Sofia’s Pain

When Is Late Too Late?

Window Pain

Letting Go

Searching

Flowers Never Cry

Hold On

Loves Ride

Affection

Essence Of Life

Because

The Missing Ingredient

Be Strong My Child

Pedestal Fools

Trust

This…

Last Love Poem

Love Is Free

The Center

Looking For Love

Price Tag

I Share Your Troubles Too

She Stopped By

A Touch

Where I Found Love

Reckoning With Time

Young Flower

Blossom

Emotions Of A Man

Love Today

Again

You Are

I dedicate this book to my Mother

Arnett Singleton Daniel

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank my dear friend Avery Clayton,

now deceased he always encouraged me. My niece K.C. Bernstine

she was the wind beneath my wings. And to my other niece Toni Powell,

because I know you’re there for me.

I never gave much

I’m not sure, if I knew how.

It’s been a long and lonely flight

to penetrate these clouds.

Learning to let go,

Beginning to feel brand new

Ahead . . . I see the sun shinning through.

Intentions

My intentions

was never to hurt you,

entangle you in my vine

lead you astray

prey upon your emotions

in any way.

My heart was sincere,

and I didn’t Understand,

how entangled the web,

that bound this man.

You were near as a rose-

I touched you, and you,

touched me back.

Yet like a blind man,

I could not see,

love had no chance

of being free.

My struggle is alone

inside of me.

Surely love was our protector

I could not keep you,

lest you shared my hell.

So I pushed you away…

Confusing, it may have been.

Wait for me…

"Love sometimes offers a bitter cup, but her rewards

are much sweeter."

My Adulteress

W here are you going… ?

I have asked, many nights

of your departure,

and your answers,

I have interrupted

like words hidden

among the