42 and Counting...

By Angeli Sweeney

42 and Counting

A collection of original poetry completed by Angeli Sweeney. The poetry she has chosen to share is an expression of her own personal evolution. Presented in a loose chronological order, they are an insight into Angeli's search for the 7 principles of Maat; Truth, Justice, Harmony, Balance, Order, Reciprocity and Propriety at different points of her life.

The number 42 has a special meaning, relating to the 42 Laws of Maat: the moral rules and beliefs that guided behaviour of Auset and all the people of Ancient Kemetic Society. Also the Earth year number age of the author when this book was published. Her poems consist of observations, life lessons, dream content and commissioned pieces. Angeli chooses to share her work in the hope that it will inspire others searching for their own individual guiding principles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angeli Sweeney
• Release date: Aug 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005667658

Angeli Sweeney

Angeli 'Angel' Sweeney is a talented artist, poet and writer, who has been writing relentlessly since her adolescent days. Her songs and poems are effortlessly powerful messages, full of meaning, yet light and uplifting at the same time. People say, she lives up to her namesake; Messenger.

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42 and Counting…

By Angeli Sweeney

Copyright 2020 Angeli Sweeney

Published by Angeli Sweeney at Smashwords

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For Mama and Nana; my grandmothers.

Whose spirits walk with me daily and teachings are never far from heart.

Table of Contents

The Pattern

Now

The Sunshine

Love don’t live here

Your Love Tried to Kill Me

This Skin

Sacrifice

Running

Mama’s Hands

Hidden Colours

Community

Black Water Original

So Blue

The Tide

The Lakes

Black Love

Growth

Poetry Writes Me

Baobab

The Bridge

The Empress’ New Clothing

Accessibility

Self-Love

Draw For the Sage

Seventy Breaths

Chilling on the Corner

Mother’s Day Card

Upcycled

Mitochondria Mama

Dream

Simple

Good Thing

Ancestral Healing

Some Days

Strong Words

Away

This Loss

Permission

Ballistics

I Know

Kintsugi Heart

Reasons to be happy

FOREWORD

Angeli is a poet who I have seen for many years perform her poetry with integrity and wisdom and the knowledge of one who lives in a real world while observing it at the same time. It was a privilege to be asked to write a small foreword for this online collection.

I feel connected to the everyday circumstances that she writes about, it has a connectability that spans generations. When she speaks the words, the words speak back to your heart. You find yourself in many of the stories she paints with her poetry. Angeli’s Poetry, draws you to place of remembrance empathy. It fires you up to not stand for rubbish to recognise the world is a place that still needs to change and grow, and be better.

Angeli Sweeney’s poetry is about challenging your perceptions of the world. This new collection, I know will speak to your heart and will bring understanding in times of trouble, it will give you an insight into the poet’s world. Quintessentially, poetry is filled with an understanding of the human condition and all of its facets.

Shirley May – Young Identity

The Pattern

Hearts resonating

Souls vibrating

Minds oscillating

Patiently waiting

For this frequency

This energy

That represents

The highest part of me

Asking the universe to guide my steps

And I'm so ready to move my feet

So ready to move to this beat

So ready to feel complete, complete

Feeling Syncopated

Feeling Elevated

No longer frustrated

I'm accommodated

Cup is overflowing

God is clearly showing

Me the way of knowing

Think I know where I'm going

Wake every morning glowing

And every day I'm sowing

Ready for the reaping

This is my season

Demonstrated synchronicity

Shocks the hell out of me

Touches a place in me

That says this is the dream

Ego is rebuked

In the name of truth

Now I’m getting used

To a life so obtuse

And abundant

I see the pattern!

Now

It's taken me so long to get here

Here

Starts with a thought, a vision, a dream

Here is the there

Where I Am

Now

Once I started to let go

It became so