A Collection of Poems: MORE COOKED UP POETRY

By Cheryl Ainsworth Martin

CHERYL AINSWORTH MARTIN was

born in Guyana. She immigrated to the

United States of America a­fter becoming a

teacher in her native land. She received her

masters degree from Brooklyn College, at

the City University of New York.

She retired a­fter thirty-three years of service

in the Public School

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Jan 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781948556071

Cheryl Ainsworth Martin

Ms Cheryl Ainsworth Martin is a public school educator. She teaches in the day, and she writes at night. Her parents were both principals and all nine of her siblings were teachers. She likes to celebrate birthdays in different ways. She believes that everyone is interested in their own birthdays, especially young children. She believes that family rituals can be a great source of fostering cultural traditions and family values. Ms Ainsworth Martin was born in Guyana and she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the mother of Shari, Nicole and Vanessa Marie Martin. She is also the grandmother of Troy, Trent and Triniti. She believes that everyone should make education their number one priority. Education is our passport out of slavery and poverty. She also knows that reading is fundamental

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A Collection of

PoemS

More Cooked Up Poetry

Cheryl Ainsworth Martin

Copyright © 2017 by Cheryl Ainsworth Martin.

Hardback: 978-1-948556-06-4

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Table of Contents

Introduction

M and M and M

God Can Get Good Out Of Evil

Focus

Explain, Express

Today

God Plans Good Things For You

Negative Be Gone

Run With The Prize

Don’t Teach Me

You Are A Thief

Let Me Push Away

I Want To Push Away Mess

I Want To Acquiesce

Sing a Song

Creation

I Love Myself

Guyanese Black Woman

Can You Be My Friend?

Life is About Having Hope

I Love You

Love Is A Dove

Love

We Are Girls

Love Is What I Do

It Must Be The Rain

You and Me

Planting Seeds

I Am Somebody

You Light Me Up

I Am Special

My Children - Stay As Sweet As You Are

A little candle

A sunbeam

Be strong

Cook-up Rice

Don’t be afraid

Everyday is Fathers’ Day

Forgetting the past

Freedom

Hold on

I am black

I am focussed

I am me

I have everything

I have something to say

In Christ

Lord I am yours

Lord I give myself back to you

Lord, I have pain

My Reason

Please don’t hurt me

Praise and worship

Rejoice

Search me, Oh God

Trusting God

We are no longer slaves

Welcome

Introduction

As a child, my favorite poems were from the mother goose collection. I had to repeat them everyday. Growing up in British Guiana, we had to learn and memorize every poem. In elementary school we had to learn songs and hymns. So I got to enjoy poetry on a daily basis.

Even as we developed into young adults, we had to commit poems to memory. In addition, we had to read, write and study poems for the General Certificate of Examination (London).

In