Poetry with an Attitude

By Ionia Gunn

This book is an inspirational poem book, filled with a variety of different poems. Some of these poems reflect my life before I met God, some may reflect your live now or what your life use to be like. They all have a special meaning to me. The title of the book is Poetry With An Attitude, because our attitude has to do with how we perceive things, and how we treat one another. If we possess negative attitudes, we are more likely to make bad choices, such as, drugs, alcohol, and cursing, and mistreat one another but when we have positive attitudes we are more likely to learn more, we go further in life, and we bless others. Poetry With An Attitude, is a poetry book that explains that our attitudes have consequences. For example, there is a poem called, Getting Divorced, the attitudes that the two parties involved in the divorce are bad attitudes, which resulted in getting divorced. God is pointing out that our behavior toward one another is based on our attitudes. This is a call to those who go by his name Christian to do better, as well as, to others who want to live a good life. When I perform these poems I do present them with an attitude as well, which brings out there meaning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781479799190

Ionia Gunn

Ionia (aka) Iona Gunn, Gospel Poet, has been doing poetry since 1993. She started in beautiful Key West, Florida where she was born and raised. God inspires her to write poetry. She started performing her poems in her community, and when she saw how positive people responded to her poems, she knew she needed to let others hear her poems by writing a poetry book. They called her, “Electrifying,” and an “outstanding writer.” She enjoys encouraging people to live positives lives, especially, the youth. She says, “The youth are our future today, not tomorrow. “ As a youth she got involved with drugs and God delivered her. She is passionate about God, because of the many blessings that he has poured on her. She has performed at different churches and public events, she has been on radio stations, and the most recent was radio station 1360 a m, in Jacksonville, Florida. The Miami Times wrote an article on July 04, 2012 about her. She has a CD on Amazon.com. The CD is called, “The Hell That I Live With,” and it has ten poems which are done to very nice music. As a result, of sharing her poems with those she meets; she has several church events that she will be preforming at. She is attending St. Leo University her major is Education. She currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida. She is married and has five children, but only one living at home. This is her first book.

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Copyright © 2013 by Ionia (a.k.a. Iona) Gunn.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2013903266

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4797-9918-3

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                   Ebook                                      978-1-4797-9919-0

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Rev. date: 02/20/2013

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Contents

Introduction

Jack and Jill

Trust in God

Arise

Love Sure Ain’t What I Thought It Would Be

The Hell That I Live With

Paralyzed

I Take Two Steps

Do Not Judge Me

Mirror

Clicks

Crushed under a Load of Care

Who Are These?

A Wife

Dreams

Once There Was a King

A Rare Rose

East Coast Goddess

A Battered Woman

Now That You’re Gone

Hold On

I Am Forgiven

Brown Sugar

Dark Chocolate

God Is There

Getting Divorced

Now or Later

A New Journey

Still I Have Peace

Generosity

She’s Got Personality

The Fifth Floor

Running

Love Can

   J. C.   

Pretenders

Master P

Your Love Is So Deep

Tall and Fine

When the Tears Begin to Fall

Exterminated

God Designed You for Me

Inconsistency

Woman

Grace and Mercy

If I Could Say Good-bye

Mama, Can You Help Me, Please?

One Day

   Why?   

Pulled Away

Death

Friends

The Purse

Humpty Living

This book is a variety of different poems that God inspired me to write. Some of the poems are about my personal life. You may find that some of these poems are about your personal life. Poetry with an Attitude is an expression of the emotions we possess. When you read these poems, you will see negative and positive attitudes. The attitude that we have can help us or hinder us from learning God’s important lessons.

Introduction

I used to run the streets; I thought I knew everything. Nobody could tell me anything, but thank God for Jesus Christ, who came and rescued me. Now, today I’m living drug-free. So let me share my story and take you on this journey. This is Poetry with an attitude. The attitude is complete gratitude to God the Father, his Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit for pulling me out of a terrible lifestyle and continually helping me to better my life. Life is a beautiful thing now that I know the King of Kings. My worship-and-praise experience is different from what it used to be; to God I give all the glory.

My name is Ionia (a.k.a. Iona) Gunn. My parents are Eugene Bacon