Divine Destiny Making a Difference in Poetry: The Pages of My Life Lessons

By Elise Duncan

This book is summarized by the poems I have written down through the last thirty-five to almost thirty-six years of my writing poetry. These poems include a melody of memories of the past unto a projection of praise, pain and photographic divine moments. It also muses on the things of what Ive seen, felt and imagined the way things will be. It also is a form of expression of hopes and desires for me and others. There are some words and or phrases that may seem to be politically incorrect. I only wanted to make a statement or I had something meaningful to inject. So come and walk with me through a glimpse of my divine destiny in poetry making a difference...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781479737734

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Copyright © 2014 by Elise Duncan.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2012919815

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4797-3772-7

                Softcover        978-1-4797-3771-0

                eBook              978-1-4797-3773-4

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Contents

CHAPTER 1

Divine And

Spiritual Poems

Healing Words

Decisions We Make

There Is Hope

Just Hide Me

Real Love

After Pentecost

Live A Pentecost

Divine Destiny

A WRITERS POEMS

The Time Has Come

Never Giving Up

Broaden My Horizons

Work The Ground

Take Care

Color Me Jesus

Looking For Light

Build the Infrastructures

Where is the Spirit?

Meeting You Where You Are

I am what God says I am

CHAPTER 2

Seasons And Surroundings

How Do We Please Man?

I See Spring

A Melody Of Fall

Fall’s Wellness

Winter’s Hat

Tilia

CHAPTER 3

Children’s Poems

Going To Sleep On Grandma

Oh It’s Raining

Mama I’m Sick

Daddy’s Coming Back

Hush Anna, Hush

Listen Listen

Jump Rope

My Cousin And Me

School’s About to Start

School Clothes

My Teacher

The Principal’s Rules

Stay A Child

How Did It Happen?

Please And Thank You

CHAPTER 4

People Poems

We Got A Meeting

All Over Town

People Are People

Know You’re Beautiful

I’ll Always Remember Your Love

Allocation

Jewels In The Earth

Angel Unawares

Living Records

I Wanted

Your Room And You

A Song Of Alma

Purple Pearls

Bold and Beautiful

Alita

Just Dream Team

CHAPTER 5

Through Trials

Mr. Adversity

Don’t Cry

Behind The Veil

In the fire

Adversity Is

CHAPTER 6

Black History Told My Way

Thank you For Being Black

The Professor

Come Off the Corner

On The Bus

Remote Controlled

A Black Man Graduated

Song Of Black Songs

Did You Not Know?

Though The Scroll Of Time

Pages of Our Plight

At Ms. Helen’s Store

Aunt Vera’s Smile

CHAPTER 7

Events

Happy Birthday Monica

My First Nationals

May This Inauguration

An Anniversary

PTA Meeting

My Birthday Is Coming

Waiting For Gifts

Why am I supposed to be here?

Hope’s Audacity

My Dream

Black Beans

The Spider

Black Grapes Are

What is Prayer Really?

Christ Must

CHAPTER 8

Wounding Down of Days

Grandma’s Clock

Time Is Running Out

Short Days

A Blue day

Birthday Baby

It’s A Red Day

This Pain

Getting Back

We Complement Each Other

Why Do You Need Me?

Don’t Let The Water Go Out

Why Do Black Birds Separate? II

If I Only Had A Brain

The Eagle Is Stirring Her Nest

Pennies Still Spend

CHAPTER 9

Events

The Last Time We Met

Why Walk On The Wild Side?

It’s Autumn Time

When I Graduate

The Day Before The Day

Clean Up Your Town

CHAPTER 10

Final Few

This Body

Just Because

Traveling With Ganovia

Ganovia Cocoa

The Bathroom

Dare To

They Didn’t Know

My Peace

What color?

Doeth Not He Know?

Our Coming Out

After The Vote

So I write

We Only Say

One Person Can

You Can Change

Tell Me What’s next?

The Benefit Of The Doubt

I’ve Already Lived

Oh To Be Free

Steel Magnolias

Cousin David

This Man From Alabama

A Royal Awaiting

Let The Young Women Marry

It was a gift from

Sitting Quiet

Mr. Snow

Ever Been On A Road

I Was There

Mandela Is Gone

Maya Couldn’t Stay

Oh I Remember Ruby Dee

OUR REACTIONS

Biography

CHAPTER 1

Divine And

Spiritual Poems

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Y ou inspired me to write a book not hard

So I first dedicated it to you my God

This book written so sweet

Always humble at your feet

For you bring the impossible to pass

Every beginning better in last

Nothing I can do without you

May every word I write please you

All my blessings are coming through

So again I thank and praise only you

Elise Duncan

Healing Words

O h those words could bring a healing

Like waters that bring a cleansing

Today let there be a healing by the word

Nothing’s impossible or absurd

Let words be spoken to save the soul

Now let it cleanse and make whole

To give hope against hope I pray

As we value each moment and day

Words to comfort in the time of need

Words to give victory to succeed

Words to turn the circuits back to good

That all things be exactly the way it should

Words to heal now on this day

To give hope that will sustain us always

Elise Duncan

Decisions We Make

T he decisions that we make must be owned

No blaming others we must stand alone

No more children who can be tossed about

We can’t lie our way out

So if Joe jumps off the bridge, will you?

You can’t come back and say sorry I didn’t mean to

No