Live, Learn, & Love

By James Carty

Herein lays his visions of life, love, and learning to deal with both, through poetry. James aims for his audience to live a positive, strong, life any chance you get. Every day is another day to live for the better. He wants people to understand that nobody is perfect, and that everyone makes mistakes. You have to learn from these mistakes and make better choices in your life as you live it. Most importantly, James wants his readers to love. He wants you to love every single person who enters your life, no matter what. Love the things that you have and the things that people do for you as well. Within Jamess work of literature, he expresses his deepest thoughts and emotions, touching from aspects such as pain, honesty, forgiveness, heart-break and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477120521

James Carty

James Carty was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts on July 5th, 1994. James attended Brockton High School and graduated June of 2012. Throughout his educational years he continued to thrive as an Honor Roll student. James always had a passion for writing since the 6th grade, but he was very shy about sharing his thoughts and opinions. Poetry entered his life at age 11. Listening to R&B and Rap music, James understood how such artists portrayed their feelings and emotions into verses, but he didn't want to do just that. James wanted to express his thoughts and feelings without being like an actual music artist. Throughout James high school years, his poems developed and in his junior and senior years of high school, more friends and family came to recognized hid abilities and talent with his poetry.

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Copyright © 2012 by James Carty.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2012909709

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4771-2051-4

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                   Ebook                                      978-1-4771-2052-1

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Contents

What is poetry?

Amazement

Dangerous Love

Change

Graduation

It Doesn’t Matter

You Gotta Love Them

I Love You Pops

I Love You Mom

Another

What If?

The Sign

Easy Love

Dangerous Love pt2

You Gotta Love Them pt2

Shock

Triumph

Perfect Disaster

It’s Different Now

Never Forgotten

Have you ever

Rest of My Life

Your Loss

Focus

No Help

It’s Not Always What It Seems

What I Need

Honestly

Why Not?

Lust

Learn Life

Learn Love

Love Life

Live, Learn, & Love

Women

A.t.F.

Get Away

Brockton

It’s Only Us

The Punishment

Sex

What is poetry?

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What is poetry? Is it a place, an object? Poetry is everything written in a rhythm of words describing its nature. It is a literary form of art broken into sections that help the reader or audience follow in the actual person’s thoughts and expressions with detail. Poetry is the critical thinking of one’s mind on certain aspects of life that draw in that person to write the feelings he or she possesses into word form. It can be so much as just writing thoughts. Then those same thoughts can turn into a rhythm and create deeper meaning for the individual. Poetry may tell another person’s story of their life that could never be created with their own thoughts. Poetry can be sports, clouds, family, school, food, genders, relationships, toys, work, poetry can be everything. When it all comes down to it, poetry is nature. Everything around us is nature. Everything around us isn’t poetry, but it could be. Most people think poetry is complex, but it isn’t. Poetry can be two sentences broken into stanzas. Some people think all poems rhyme, but they don’t. The individual who creates this art we call poetry, from the critical mind that that person has, has the choice to make it their own. Poetry is beautiful. Not the word poetry but what stands behind it; a glorious journey going through the mind of one that withholds deep thoughts that urge him or her to express those feelings and force the literary elements within them to come out