County Rd. 35: Poetic Echoes of the W I N D

By Evelyn Dilworth-Williams

County Rd. 35: Echoes of the Wind is an inspirational, thought-provoking, challenging, and witty "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." A collection of poems self-laced with the past, the present, and the future mentions of the reality of life's realness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504928786

Evelyn Dilworth-Williams

Evelyn Dilworth-Williams is a civil rights foot soldier from Birmingham, Alabama, retired certified secondary teacher, guidance counselor, and master facilitator of parenting education. She received her BA in Sociology from Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama. She also received her Master’s Degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in guidance and counseling. Her educational preparations included additional study in family counseling. She is certified as a parenting facilitator by Active Parenting Publishers of Atlanta, Georgia. Dilworth-Williams is the author of Panola: My Kinfolks’ Land, Morning Promises & My Evening Songs, Polishing the Apples: Children’s Poetry, Pass It On: Echoes & Shadows The Ten Cent Ride, and The Four Little Golden Girls: The Bombing That Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement, a play starring Tony Award winner Melba Moore. It was produced by Miles College in conjunction with the City of Birmingham, Alabama, and the Birmingham City Council. Her writings range from inspirational, thought-provoking, to downright humorous. Dilworth-Williams’s writing motivation is a blend of all life’s universal energy.

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Published by AuthorHouse   11/17/2015

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Contents

Introduction

Dedication

Acknowledgements

WINDSHEAR:      change

Same Difference

The Journey Together

Life’s Equinox

Black Mother Cries

Painted Water

E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One

Sankofa State of Mind (Ghanaian Mythical Bird)

Sankofa’s Eye of the Dawn (Ghanaian Mythical Bird)

Tribute: New York, New York Slaves

Answering Prayer

Cultural Soundings

Dancing

Spirit

Memory Saplings: All Is Well

Now I Know

Mystification

Southern Thunder: Sounds Anywhere

Swamp and the Magnolia Tree

A Colored Sight

Collard Greens and Caviar

Questions at the Crossroad

Mrs. Rosa & Mrs. Coretta

Vivian & James

Who Said What?

I Wonder

The Journey

A Trilogy Of Violence: Hopeless, Hope & Healed Flightless Wings (Hopeless)

Trusting Wings (Hope)

Soaring Wings (Healed)

WINDSCALE:      strength

Why Worry? It’s Not Mine to Give

Past Noon

First Things First: Morning Light

Dawning Daybreak: Lazy One

Today’s Tomorrows

Eye of the Dawn

Receive & Give

Designing Strokes

Shadow

In Awe

Aging Time: Non-Returnable Gift

Smile

Noises of the Night

Contentment

A Living Day

A Virgin Dream

Morning Starts That Way

Time of the Day

Bearable Days

Three Headed Blues & More:

Blues I : thoughts from a head that filters life

Blues II : constructs reality

Mo’ Blues III : gives character/commitment

My Blues: the blues after Mo’ Blues

My Blues: it never tells all my story ’cause Mo’ Blues won’t go away

WINDSCREEN:      protection

Yesterday’s Voice

Harvest the Light

Making of a World

’Cause It Is Love

Family

The Family’s Voice

Beyond the Mirror

Friends

The Harvest Moon

Beckoning for Me

Hambone Is Back!

DNA: Just One of a Kind

A Real Invitation to Visit

Depend …

The Known Unknown

I can be…

Lost Touch

Quiet Please!

Grief

My Puerto Rican Home

Silhouettes: Longevity & Contentment

Self’s Beauty

Repetitious Realism

The Day Is Certain

ADDITIONAL POEMS:   Other Thans

Ancestral Songs

Certainty: A Sankofa Day

Awakening

Forty Acres and What?

Hope Changes

A Child

Sonnet: I’ve…

WHOYOUBE?IAMME!

Introduction

County Road 35

poetically depicting a legacy near County Rd. 35

oftentimes sensed by those who survived

a stretch of road that points to the site

of the ancestral home away from home

on ceremonial grounds for their resting bones

bequeathing voices for a generational-heir’s rewrite

poetically flung to create a windy-way sound

echoes in the wind amidst County Rd. 35’s ground

from earth’s countryside to earth’s skylight

Home away from home: Grandma Delphi (b. circa 1830)

Grandma Susan (b. 1850)

Dedication

Oh! My Mother’s Hands

Tribute to My Mother: Bertha Louise Little-Dilworth

Strong, Supportive, and Straight

Even while opening heaven’s gate

With a beauty for all to imitate

Quantifying her living state

Strong, Supportive, and Straight

Oh! How I love to watch my mother’s hands

Oh! She completed such laid out daily plans

Oh! Just using them to make for others a life so grand

No matter the circumstance that gave the command

Oh! My mother’s hands sometimes used to reprimand

Oh! About this, that, and many times the other "thans"

Oh! With such love and never any abuse

Her daily grace determined their use

Oh! How she gently stroked a heartfelt bruise

Oh! Sometimes comforted the ones with the blues

Oh! My mother’s hands were extended and ne’er refused

All seemed