Poetry from the Seasons of My Life

By CeCe Penne

One of the most precious and priceless gifts in the world is the heart of a woman. A beautiful kaleidoscope of raw emotions, experiences, and memories, a womans heart knows no boundaries or limitations regarding her cherished and sacred love.

Whether old, young, rich, poor, black, or whitewe have all craved love from another. We are ordinary women-but possess extraordinary love. At one period in time, we each have loved, whether or not love actually decided to pay us a visit, stay around for a while, or unselfishly love us back. It may not always reciprocate or manifest itself how we desire. Sometimes it may be followed by hurt, disappointment, loss or death, but we still keep on loving

When permitted to give wholly and freely, a womans satiable heart is unadulterated and her love is both timeless and unconditional Her love is naked and pure resilient and determinedpatient and forgiving...

In the quest to find her destiny, every woman will inevitably experience powerful and unpredictable seasons on her journey called Life, as love etches indelible lines of poetry across her impressionable heart. I invite you to enter into my heart and share my poetry from the seasons of my life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781462061358

CeCe Penne

CeCe Penne is an author and poet who discovered her love for writing at five years old. She is an avid reader of biographies and women's historical literature. She has written many short stories and recently completed her first novel. She enjoys cooking, jazz and classical music, reading, traveling, and studying Middle Eastern dance. CeCe currently resides in New York.

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Dedication

To all the silent women in the world

who feel they lost their voice

when they lost their love

Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Blue - The Color of My Love

The Sun Is Shining

32 (Coming into Womanhood)

The Path

Footprints in the Sand

Self Reflection

Cloak of My Sin

Black Widow

The Enemy

I Smile

The Touch

Your Body

Unattainable

A Late Night´s Visit

Diamonds

The Wishing Well

Envy

Old and New

Love on a String

The Last Dawn

Untitled

Unmasked

Truth…or Dare

A Love Not Your Own

…Intimacy

Cecelia

Ain´t it Kinda Funny

I Saw His Eyes

The Wall

All of Me

Is There Another Word for Love?

The Ocean

Native Love Song

Sacrifice for Sacrifice

A Heart Framed of Gold

Black Butterfly

A Crime of the Heart

The End of Time

Time in a Bottle

Love and Paradise

Flowers, Mountaintops and Fairytales

Introduction

Over the course of several years, I have compiled poems that I wrote throughout the seasons of my life. Since I was a young girl, poetry has always been the refuge for my impressionable heart. It has always been the place where I could retreat, recover and recuperate until my healing came. Some of these poems speak directly from my heart, voicing the hurt, joy, sorrow, passion and love that I have experienced. Other poems express the emotions and feelings of some of those who have been close to me, but did not have the voice to speak-so in these poems, I have spoken for them.

May you too find your voice.

Blue - The Color of My Love

Blue…

Blue was the only color

that I ever knew

Blue was the color

of the sky

on the last day that I

ever saw you.

Blue, with clouds of gray

as the thunder smothered

the cries of my heart

and the tide washed it away.

Blue was the color

of the flash of lightening

that struck my soul,

and set it on fire.

Jazz and old memories

playing on my record player

those late nights

when I’m all alone

they’re all blue too.

And as I sit and cry and moan

with Ethel,

Bessie cries my heart out too

and Billie and I sit and glare

out the window praying

for better days…

My love, once so ravishingly red

with burning passion and desire,

now rests in shades and hints of gray,

black and blue, for I

am beginning to tire.

But tomorrow

when I awaken

like forever and yesterday,

the sky, like my love for you,

will always be blue and never

Fade

Away…

The Sun Is Shining

The sun is shining

The moon is forgiving

It’s time now

To begin living…

There’s pearls in the sky

of white clouds

And diamonds can be found

in the bottom of the ocean.

Rivers endlessly flow and run

like dreams at midnight.

When I look into your eyes

over breakfast at dawn

They make me melt

and the sun

sets in winter…

Winter with palm trees

coconuts, and girls

in grass skirts

Hips swaying from side to side

rhythmically to the beat

of conga drums,

hands clapping, and the sounds

of little feet.

My hammock blows

gently in the wind

with the melodic sound

of wind chimes

tinkling over my head

and I roll over

and I look at you

There’s diamonds in your smile

and rays of sunlight in your hair.

The sun is setting…

I am forgiving

I caught a diamond in my hand

It’s time to start living…

32 (Coming into Womanhood)

With just the simple flick of my wrist

Casual fling of my hair

Hand on one