Ethos: A Look Inside Ourselves

By D. T. Gathing

In this book will find a teen, and adult, a man, and a woman all expressing themselves through the use of common everyday language; but used in a way that hopefully will provoke an extraordinary thought about yourself, another individual, a community, or a nation; How we treat ourselves, how we treat others who we know and do not know, and how we feel about the beauty and chaos that we interact with directly and indirectly. In this book is a mixture of poems related to love, hate, deception, humility, and loyalty, amongst other various topics. At times the poems will be adorable, such as in Cute As. And at other times they will be used to admonish the reader who it may relate to, such as, Keepin it real fake.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469148922

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Copyright © 2012 by D. T. Gathing.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2012900288

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4691-4891-5

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DEDICATION

I’ve heard that only what you do for God will last. It goes without saying that the first person/being I would like to dedicate this book to would be God. Without God I am nothing and with God I can move mountains… Or write a poetry book.

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I’d like to also dedicate this book to my family, namely my grandparents. My grandfather was, and my grandmother still is the glue that keeps us together. I thank God for them more than on occasion. We are all like a marriage. For better or worse. Till death do us part… I dedicate this book to my friends and associates, church families, and people who motivated me in every way by telling me verbally or in writing that they liked my poems. Last but not least, I also dedicate this book to those who I watched in my daily activities who did not know they were inspiring me one way or another with their actions and words.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Lord Make Me A Diamond

David Vs. Goliath

David And Goliath

How I Began To See The Intangible

Already Seen

The Day The Earth Stood Still

One Service Stand

The Commissioner

Radiant Woman

I Think I’ll Pass

Can I? . . .

This Is How Love’s Supposed To Be

Gist Of Love

The Wishing Well

Zorri Has Faith

1-4-3-8 & Ever (I Love You Forever & Ever)

Where I’m From

Keepin It Real… Fake

(F)Rights

Chitown

The Cleanup Man

Forbidden Love Pt.1

Explicit Love

Forbidden Love Pt.2

Sweet Girl Gone Sour

True Colors

Knocked Up And Knocked Out

Mr. Surreptitious

Cold Dish

Ashes To Ashes Dust To Dust

True Story

Full Of Self

Unanswered Questions

Ultimatum

Here, And Still Missing You

Love? Poem

For You. For Me.

A Little Rain Never Hurt Nobody?

Cutting My Losses At A Profit

Keeping Feelings In(Tact)

When Words Just Won’t Do

The Convalescence Of A Broken Heart

Two’s Company. I’m The Crowd

Tomorrow, Definitely Tomorrow

Compromise

Finally

Promise Me Tomorrow, Today

Pallbearer

Seeing And Believing

God-Mother

Thank You:

Black Woman

Lamen’s Terms

A Bad Day

A Kiss, Well… A First Kiss

But I Had To…

The Same Difference

Picture Perfect

We, Is Me

Horseplay

Verbal Flowers

Summer

Easy

Cloudy With A Chance Of Smiles

Best 2 Out Of 3

The Botanical Ballet

The Autumn Tree

Water Vapor-Fall

As Winter’s Wonder Lands

1 And A Billion

And The Storm Rages On

N.N.&N

Greenline

Iceberg

What A Woman Wants You To Say When She’s Giving You A Piece Of Her Mind

Madame Rouge

Sweet As

Shy Guy

Cute As

Fondness Is 20/20

. . . That I Like About Her

Perspective

Impressions

Tunnel Vision

The Good (As He Could Be) Samaritan

Salt-Water Droplets

Hallelujah, Anyhow

I Wish

Discern

Black: His-Story

Try

Recognize A Sphinx(Man)

I Dreamt A Dream Of Reality

Jokes

Haikus

In God’s Care

Quotes

Original Sin

If This World Were Mine

Rescued

Homecoming

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

My attempt in this literary work is to Write poetry no one else can write, but everyone can understand and appreciate. In it you will find a teen, and adult, a man, and a woman all expressing themselves through the use of common everyday language; but used in a way that hopefully will provoke an extraordinary thought about yourself, another individual, a community, or a nation; How we treat ourselves, how we treat others who we know and do not know, and how we feel about the beauty and chaos that we interact with directly and indirectly. In this book is a mixture of poems related to love, hate, deception, humility, and loyalty, amongst other various topics. At