Lessons Learned

By Fatimah Islam

When the author of this poetic publication loses her mother at the age of 23, she finds comfort in a loving husband... who carries a dark past. These poems represent the process of getting unstuck, when a woman has to always find beauty in so much loss. Lessons Learned is my expression of that struggle out of darkness and into light, unveiling the very idea of a personal metamorphosis. Becoming that butterfly despite the grueling process.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781716205927

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Lessons Learned

The Poetic Metamorphosis of a Woman...On Tiny Pieces of Paper

by Fatimah Islam

Lessons Learned

The Poetic Metamorphosis of a Woman...On Tiny Pieces of Paper

Fatimah Islam Copyright 2012

978-1-716-20592-7

Imprint: Lulu.com

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Dedication

I would like to dedicate this piece, my first book to my beautiful supportive children, Joi, Maiya, and my earth son Hakeem. You have inspired me to want greatness.

I love you dearly.

Acknowledgments

I am appreciative to all of those beings in my life who gave me material for my inspirational poetry.

Bless you, and all of your families, friends and acquaintances.

I would also like to pay special acknowledgement to those beings that weren’t with us long, my extraordinary mother

Marcia P. Brown, and Baby Sincere.

God has bestowed this blessed gift unto me and I am thankful for his generosity and love.

Table of Contents

Lesson 1 Struggling with Loss 4

Lesson 2 When Love Hurts        8

Lesson 3  Family affairs       16

Lesson 4  Adaptations               25

Lesson 5  What doesn’t kill You  34

Lesson 6 Sensual Revolution       41

Lesson 7 About the World 46

Lesson 8  Authentic- Self       52

Lesson 9 the Last level before     55

Change

My First Lesson as a woman began with the death of my mother when I was only 23, and pregnant with her first grandchild. Death thrusted me unwillingly into a cocoon of darkness, until change spontaneously occurred. Change forces you to alter your perspectives; your positions; you begin your morphosis. My change evolved from being the girl I wanted to be; to being the woman I had to become; and the person I am inspired to be for the world.

Lesson1Struggling With Loss.

The Art of Healing

My wounds will always elicit a breakdown, when I encourage them to grow as a separate entity from myself; hence creating an internal war, and battle of limitless resistance.

Circle of Life

It begins at its end and it ends at its beginning. No matter what's your path it's still a circle.

28 years of life..........5 years