The First 50 + 1: A Poetic Touch N Tone

By Zelvan Phillips

Yes, I know, most poems are drawn from personal experiences. Well just to let you know, this book is not solely on my personal experiences. Some of the events in the book did involve me, but some are just things that I observed in a regular day. Youre free to decide what I went through or what I simply saw someone else go through.

However, the main purpose of this book is to open up your eyes and mind to the deeper things of life. My intention is to change or mould the way an ordinary person thinks while exciting the reader and make getting the information or motive interesting. Please note the poems are done mostly on serious life based topics, from love to success and health etc. While this book makes some harsh points throughout, I dont intend to verbally harm anyone. Please read with an open mind and if you fi nd yourself guilty of any remarks, its for you to use it as a motivation to do the right thing.

While writing, I tried various styles of poems, word play, different forms and basically just developed each poem with its own special form which I created. While writing, all ideas of the styles of poem came directly from my own thoughts. Please forgive me if any of the styles that I used was already established, I honestly didnt research any forms of poems as I tried to come up with my own. Again, read with an open mind and enjoy

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477104095

Zelvan Phillips

As you might know, my name is Zelvan Phillips and Im 21 years old. I was born on Dec 6th in the year 1990. I was born in Kingston, Jamaica of the West Indies and grew up in the country part of the Island being Yallahs, St. Thomas. I attended Excelsior High in Kingston, graduated in 2007 with four CXC subjects out of a possible six, and migrated to the USA on Dec 7th of that same year to live with my mom, Angelene Jordan. I lived with my dad, Howard Phillips, most of my high school years, up until 9th grade when he passed. I lived with my grandfather for the remainder of high school. Life has thrown its challenges at me, throughout high school and especially after I moved to the US and had to work while attending college, Bronx Community College (BCC), all at once at age 18. It was difficult due to the fact that in Jamaica, as a child your only requirements are going to school, behaving yourself, getting good grades and doing your house chores. Now working fulltime and attending college while fulfilling those other requirements is another thing. I had my first job at 17, working at a KFC and Taco-bell almost 2hrs away from home. However, I didnt work during my first semester at BCC as I wasnt sure what to expect and I also had the responsibility of representing the college in soccer along with sitting five courses. I passed all classes with B- or higher that first semester and participated in every soccer game for the college (Fall 2008). For my remaining time at BCC I worked numerous jobs, played another season of soccer and did fulltime semesters. I graduated in 2011with my Associate Degree in Sociology.

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THE FIRST

50 + 1

A Poetic Touch n Tone

Zelvan Phillips

Copyright © 2012 by Zelvan Phillips.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2012907608

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4771-0408-8

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                   Ebook                                      978-1-4771-0409-5

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Love & Crap

Wrong Step

Baby Meets Life

Beauty Fails!

Forever!

God’s Wishes

I’ve Been Waiting, now it’s Your Time!

I Miss You!

Is it Love?

Love Doesn’t Hurt

Love Game

Nervous

Psycho

Rushing Love!

Rushing love pt.2

That girl

The Cure

The Perfect Love Story!

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Wasting Love!

Who I Want!

Time Good or Bad?

Family

Recreating Life!

Bicycle Forever Young!

Family and Business

Family is not my Business

Life’s Challenges

Wiser in the eyes!

Message to a Graceful Journey (Wiser in the Eyes 2)

An Imperative existence!

How People Think!

I Wish!

Life Advisory!

My Life

Start Fresh

Underprivileged

What’s the Answer?

Why Do Wrong?

Winners & Losers

World’s Controversies

Words

A Unique Race

America Is Big!

By Any Means!!

Nation Wide

Our World Is PreJustDissed

The World We Accept!

Time

Collectibles

You Know What I Hate!

A Peach of Senses

My Almost Perfect Girl!

Pray for our Peers

The Magic of the Smile

The Speed Meter!!!

Acknowledgements

Well firstly, I would like to thank God for giving me the courage and wisdom to write what I have written and publishing it. Many people have great talents and potential but just don’t show it or utilize it because they’re either afraid of criticism or just plain lazy. Well I give the most thanks to God and my mother, Angelene Jordan for me having the courage and putting out the effort of publishing my first book. My mother is a hard working woman, who doesn’t really care what another person thinks; as long as she’s handling her business in a moral fashion and is comfortable she is happy. I believe that most of my mental character comes from my mom as I’ve seen how hard she’s worked and graced success and kept on working hard. Also I would like to show the most respect to my father, he worked extremely hard to send me to school and to give me the best that he’s able to during his time alive, and for that I would like to thank him.

With that said, I would also like to give thanks to all my teachers and professors as I’ve learnt so much from them. Speaking about teachers, I would just like to show special appreciation to my 10th and 11th grade English teacher in particular, Ms. Maylor Brown, who really enforced the speaking and writing of proper English on me. I would also like to thank my best friend Jomo Grant who