Torn.: Life in Free Verse

By Spencer A. Hill Jr.

Contraversial, inspirational, insightful, this book will stir up all of your emotion. It is a life in poetry. Spencer believes poetry is meant to be understood, his work is easy to read, full of vivid imagery and jam packed with raw emotion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 28, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453533673

Spencer A. Hill Jr.

Spencer Andrew Hill Jr., pseudonym Brutally Honest, was born and raised in the jungles of South Philadelphia, PA., where he currently lives. He has been educated in catholic schools, and has attended University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Widener University, LaSalle University, and the Community College of Philadelphia and has studied a multitude of subjects. Spencer has worked in many professional fields from truck driving to early childhood education, and dedicates much of his time to tutoring and educating children in his South Philadelphia neighborhood. He began writing poetry in 2004, inspired by Tupac Shakur’s The Rose that Grew from Concrete, and The Corners of MY Mind is his first published work. Contact info: [e-mail] www.Facebook.com/Brutally Honest

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Torn.

life in free verse

Spencer A. Hill Jr.

Copyright © 2010 by Spencer A. Hill Jr..

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Reflections in the window

Respect Me

I Dream in H.D. For Little Black Boys

Right and Wrong and Shades of Grey

God’s Smile (part 1)

Just me

Torn, pieces of a broken man

Untitled

Finding Happy

Only God can Judge

I Am

Dutch Oven

Freedom

Cry

The Rage

Inner Me

Judgment Day

Two Faces

Guardian

One Day Later

Death’s Dream

History Speaks

Competitive Thoughts

War for Eternity

Untitled

Revolutionary Dedicated to histories Revolutionaries

Rags to riches Dedicated to the poor!

Philosophical Haiku’s

I thank you

A Boy’s Dream of Africa

Nigger Tube

Still in Bondage Dedicated to anyone who will listen

Lineage, history of a people

Shockenomics For anyone who will listen

Revolt, A Call To Arms

Lady Kat Sings New Orleans

Justice Or Death For Sean Bell!

Society Has The Flu

Untitled To America

Lunes to America

Untitled

Poem to a Blue jay

Random days

Not so different

Untitled

Temptation

The Husband and the mistress

The husband and the wife

Beautiful Nights

Untitled

First Love

Love is

Pacific Calm

Lips, Legs, etc . . . 

Resilient Moon For Jim Valvano Don’t Ever Give Up

God’s Smile (part 2)

Almost Champions To my brothers, SJN basketball ’99-’00 Respect the Game

Lonely night

Ticking Clock

The Mist and Morning Dew Dedicated To Children

God’s smile (part 3)

Philadelphia

A city at war

Emotions

Last wish

Corners of My Mind (Journal Entry)

Fuck the Rules

Remember Me

Dedication

By definition a revolutionary is any person who evokes fundamental change or reversal of conditions, forcibly or otherwise. Throughout my short and challenging life experience I have witnessed evidence of what I believe is the systematic destruction of