Voices from a Silent Heart: Poems for Everyday Life

By Fatima Muna Koroma

Voices from a Silent Heart is an anthology of poems. Every poem has a learning tool that would strengthen us to grow in certain circumstances. This work explores diverse themes, such as relationships, the longing for love, the wisdom of dreams, goals, aspirations, spiritual, hope, courage, and family. The poems are touching and instructive to empower a believer in oneself as an individual and to build a relationship with God. Voices from a Silent Heart promotes the development of anyone who is ready for deep change. Voices from a Silent Heart reflects on life, the emotions that define us, and helps our mind to gain new ideas in ways of giving the world a new aspect of light. This work gives a sense of empathy; it focuses intensely on understanding the world and the people around us better. Voices from a Silent Heart will enhance empathy, compassion, and the feelings and emotions of others. Voices from a Silent Heart will infuse life with beauty, culture, and important thoughts, feelings and experiences and convey optimism to others. Voices from a Silent Heart will strengthen ones resolve and inspire us to a positive path in our everyday lives. Indeed, this book will help with the struggles that we all encounter in life. Put simply, it is a journey in search of the hero within oneself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 18, 2011
• ISBN: 9781483624211

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Copyright © 2011 by Fatima Muna Koroma.

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4836-2420-4

Ebook 978-1-4836-2421-1

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Rev. date: 04/08/2013

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Contents

Acknowledgments

AFRICAN CULTURE, HISTORY, AND WORLD PEACE

A Black Woman

African Slaves

Hear the Children Cry

Humble

I Wish

Lincoln

Make We Lef Bad Heart

My Motherland

Race

Sometimes I Wonder

Somewhere in Africa

Tomorrow

BIRTHDAY AND SEASONAL

About Christmas

Giving Thanks

On This Valentine’s

On Your Birthday

COURAGE, HOPE, STRENGTH, AND WISDOM

Achieve

Am Not Afraid

Amazing

Dreams

Hope

I Can Feel It

I Smile

I Will Write This Page

I Write

I Write Because

I Write Strong

May I?

My Addiction

My Strength

My Two Feet

Peace

Searching for Destiny

Voices from a Silent Heart

With Courage

Work for What You Want

GRIEF AND LOSS

Away from Us

Hidden Angel

FAMILY

Conception

Faith

Family That Prays

Letter to God

Why Give Me Life

INSPIRATIONAL

Dear Lord

God Is Love

Heaven Is Where I Lie

How Can I

I Pray

Knees to Pray

My God

Thank God I’m Better

There Is a God

Thinking of the Lord

When I Pray

LIFE

Cherish Life

Journey of Life

Life

When Things Happen

This Life We Live

LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS

A Different Side of Love

A Friend

Afraid to Love Again

Alone

Angel behind Bars

Away

Broken Heart

Can You Be My Man?

Doubts

Every Tear

Hands I Hardly Knew

He Knows My Worth

He Loves Me

He Said He Loves Her

I Fell In and Out

I Fell in Love

I Love Everything You Love

I Smile at Pain

I’ve Loved and I’ve Lost

In Doubt of Love

Let Me In

Listen

Love Is

Love Is Kind

My Love

My Room

One River

Promise

Rain Drops

Remember Those Days

Teardrops

The End, I’m Free

Trials and Errors

Want to Leave?

What Men Want

What’s Love?

When He Is Away

SELF-CONFIDENCE AND IDENTITY

Beautiful as I Am

Born to Speak

Incredible Woman

My Own Best Friend

So What? Let Them Talk

Who Am I?

Why You Hate Me

You Are Beautiful

Your Perspective

SPOKEN WORDS

Remembering

I Was Only Eighteen

Since You Went Away

Uneasy to Love

What Makes Him Smile

"To Everyone who dream and believe through

God everything is possible."

Acknowledgments

The debt extends to everyone I have ever known and worked with. I am grateful to the following: Alpha Bai-Kamara, Al-Hassan H. Bakarr-Kanu Sr., Edward Kargbo, Yusuf Barrie, Ray Reynolds, my parents, and my daughter, Faith Demuna Sovula.

AFRICAN CULTURE, HISTORY, AND WORLD PEACE

A Black Woman

As a black woman,

I view the color of her skin.

She is covered with rooted African descent.

She is proud to empower herself.

She strives for a meaningful life, as well as her dignity.

She is aware of her culture.

As a black woman, she is not afraid.

She smiles with her skin,

Her path of life is clear,

Romanticized with idea,

She drives to set straight issues.

As a black woman,

Her rhythm is high.

She walks as a queen,

With her flowing spirit and soul.

Her insight is pure.

A black woman with self-deprecating humor,

She works hard, highly religious,

She has a mind of her own.

What an educated woman,

So potentially happy in her skin.

She is a black woman.

African Slaves

It was because of them,

The African slaves, that today we are free.

It was because of them, the African slaves,

Today our president is black.

It was because of them, African slaves,

We all can attend top universities.

It was because of us

Africans they were beaten until blood flowed.

It was because of us

They were beaten and hanged.

It was because of us

They were incarcerated.

It was because the color of our skin

They had no food or clothes.

African slaves fought for us.

Let’s not forget about them,

Because they made a way for us.

Hear the Children Cry

Oh, Africa,

Oh, how I could hear these children cry.

I hear their voices weeping now,

Not just when they die.

Feel their illnesses,

Their blisters are prone to pathogenesis.

If only they could be cured today,

A life of a bright future would be saved.

The food you could give

Would eliminate starvation to improve malnutrition,

The changes that you and I could make.

Oh, America,

Let’s make it a better way.

A better place for the human race.

A nation to help the poor,