Read in Between the Lines: And Within the Margins

By Shameka S. Bush

The title Read in between the lines and within the margins is a request from the author to the reader to opt in not only reading the feelings expressed therein, but also feel, value, and relate to them as well. This array of pieces reflects emotions such as confusion, understanding, fulfillment, confidence, depression, joy, and wrath. The author reemphasizes her request by dedicating the first poem to the title of the book.
The sequence of poetic perspectives also exemplify various writing techniques such as metaphors found in The Soundless Day, In Trouble, and even Constipation, or the common technique of assonance heavily used in God is Awesome and My Blackground. The AABB and ABAB are just a few standard rhyme schemes demonstrated in the book, as many other combinations are represented as well. The author even gave her readers a little sample of onomatopoeia, found in A woman of my own mind.
The author also used emotive and colloquial languages to bring various perspectives to life and to emphasize strong emotion, such as the colloquial found in A Thugs perspective or in The Stuck up; The Stupid, or the emotive language used in most pieces. This collection of poems is unique because they complement each other as they move back and forth between Narrative and Expository modes.
Though this book follows many technical elements of writing, the author took risks and broke some of the rules to standard writing, such as run-on sentences like in My Blackground, lowercase letters on proper nouns, and capital letters on improper nouns such as in The murmurs of the devil , and One Hug. These risks were taken to symbolize how the author viewed various characters in the pieces. Other risks were used to aid in emphasizing the emotion the author is portraying in the poems.
Some samples of Read in Between the Lines and Within the Margins have been recited at various poetry events and sessions and have been displayed online. They have also been shared with family and close friends. Though the pieces have been shared, this is their first publication, with more exciting moves to come.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483664491

Shameka S. Bush

Shameka Shawnte Bush was born April 14, 1984 in Jacksonville, FL. This charismatic author at the age eleven discovered she has a passion for Poetry. She quickly became a visionary and developed the skills necessary to create her own poetic views of the world around her. Writing poetry then became more than just a way of self-expression, but a lifestyle. This Georgia raised woman thought one of her purposes in life was to make people aware of the poetic moments in life. She believes that whether beautiful, hideous, up, down, or gold, it is all poetic and that’s worth recognizing.

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Table of Contents

Thank You

Read in Between the Lines

God is Awesome

A Woman of My Own Mind

The Stuck Up… The Stupid…

The Invisible They

One Sheet, One Pen

The Soundless Day

Searching for Beauty

Calling on the Name of Jesus

Ugly

Don’t Forget the Broom Stick!

Let My Haters Speak Up

I Talk to My Paper

A Best Friend

Constipation

Haikus (5-7-5)

No Weapon

A Thug’s Perspective

The Naked Tree (Do Not Be Jealous)

Look Deep Into My Eyes

The Sweet Summer Rose

Ignorance is NOT Bliss

Two Worlds

Fake Hair, Fake Attitude

I Am One

Power in the Mind (Dedicated to Emily Dickinson)

My Tears are Tattooed to Me

The Blind Man is Lucky…

One Hug

An Empty Thought

Greater Than a Sword

More Than a Woman

The Murmurs of the Devil

The Sand Beneath My Feet

The Perfect Melody

When Angels Sing

Who Are You?

Rolling Thunder

Heaven at Night

Not Always as it Seems…

Anonymously Special (Speechless)

I’m Living a Dying Life

The Color of Life

Breathe Again

The Reverend and Boy

My First Love

Train Seat

The Look

You’ll Be Missed

Let Not Your Heart be Troubled; Let it Not be Afraid (John 14)

The Old Man

Guilty

I Cry in Silence

Sleepy

At the End of the Day

The End Isn’t so Dead

Thank You

First and foremost, I would like to give glory and praise to God almighty, for blessing me with the mind to put words together that move people, the hands to get the work done, and the spirit to push through in spite of what satan or the world showed me.

Thank you to my family for standing behind me, especially to my Grandma Bush for reminding me that ‘All things through Christ can be done’ and ‘If there’s a will, there’s a way’, and for praying for me every step of the way.

Thank you to my sister, Qiana, who also has a creative and humorous side. Thank you Qi for loving me and being supportive in all of my endeavors.

Thank you to Anthony Jay for standing behind me and showing me that no matter what life puts in front of me, I should always take time out to fulfill my dream and let nothing stop me or stand in my way. Thank you for keeping life interesting, and full of love and joy. (Photography by Anthony Jay Jones)

Thank you to Angelisa and Cincerely for being my best friends for many years now. I published this book as a result of all of the poetry events we sponsored/hosted, attended and performed at and hope that some of the pieces bring back memories.

Thank you to my friends whom I picked up along the way, whether it was in school, we rapped together (because rapping is poetry), or we worked together. Thank you for being there