Passion and Poetry

By Cheryl Ainsworth Martin

Poetry is a shortcut to literacy. This book captures the rhyme and rhythm of words. It is about feelings and emotions from the heart. It is about the soul. We feed the soul with poetry. It is about life as we experience multiculturalism in the melting pot of New York. It describes the flavor of words and beats as they occur on a daily basis in the metropolitan areas of the cities. Cooked-up poetry is about the different ways that people express themselves on a daily basis. It shows the essence of living by lining up passion with poetry. It shows us that we are one in the spirit and that we can learn from each other in spite of our different ways of living, caring, and sharing. This book celebrates cultures as being at the center of everything that we do.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524504960

Cheryl Ainsworth Martin

Ms Cheryl Ainsworth Martin is a public school educator. She teaches in the day, and she writes at night. Her parents were both principals and all nine of her siblings were teachers. She likes to celebrate birthdays in different ways. She believes that everyone is interested in their own birthdays, especially young children. She believes that family rituals can be a great source of fostering cultural traditions and family values. Ms Ainsworth Martin was born in Guyana and she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the mother of Shari, Nicole and Vanessa Marie Martin. She is also the grandmother of Troy, Trent and Triniti. She believes that everyone should make education their number one priority. Education is our passport out of slavery and poverty. She also knows that reading is fundamental

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Copyright © 2016 by Cheryl Ainsworth Martin. 727724

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016908652

ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-5245-0497-7

   Hardcover   978-1-5245-0498-4

   EBook      978-1-5245-0496-0

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 06/08/2016

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Contents

A Little Candle

Brown Bird

Don’t Kill Me

Happy Fathers’ Day

Hostess, Mostess

I Am Me

I Can Be the Voice

Lord Let Me Be A Sunbeam

Search Me,