Pages from the Tree of Life

By Dr. J. Israel Brubeck

This book is a private collection of personal thoughts, a look through a window of relationships, good and bad times, divine images, an elegy of life, and the pathos of death. Its journey has healed, blessed, and truly taken me through a revelatory metamorphosis that has cleansed me and left me a better man. I sincerely hope that it may bless you in a similar fashion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781499082869

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Dedication

Preface

8³rd & Hoover

A Cry For Truth

A Day In A Life Of Harmony

A Gift—For Me

A Good Thing

A Poem For Dion

A Prayer For Harriet

A State Of Mind

A Summer’s Night Thought

A Tear On My Page

A Visit Today

A Voice For The Weak

Abandoned Love

Address 777

Adele

Adieu

Alicia

All That Jazz

Alone With You

Am

Amazing

An Expected End

An Inspiration For Amber

And There You Were

Angel

Another Layer

Another Missed Birthday

Answa

At Last

B-Day

Beauty Natural

Before

Behind The Mask

Bending Knees

Big Joe

Big Junior

Big Lass

Big Mike

Birth Of A New Year

Brown Angel

Burt

Pages From The Tree Of Life

By My Stripes

Californication

Chaos

Chosen

Contemplations For Hadassah

Contemplations In Duluth

Cookie

Could You

Country Rain

Court Of Favor

Dana

Danado

Daughters

Day Birth

Day Dreams

Dear Joseph

Decision Time

Desire

Destiny

Diamonds And Worlds

Do You Remember

Donna

Escape From The Shadow

Doretha

Dorothy Diannah

Double Minded

Draconian

Dwain

Earth And Quake

El Berith

El Shadai

Eloped

Epiphany

Eric

Evil T. C.

Evolution Of J.B.

Exposed Weakness Of The Old Man

Extracted Joy

Faithful Heart

Farewell

Filled

First Born

First Daughter

Footprints Across My Mind

Fractured

Free Will

From Me To You

God’s Blessing

Goodiegirl

Grace, Mercy, And Praise

Grandma

Grandma’s Love

Grandpa

Greatest Gift

Hadassah

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Grandma

Happy Birthday

Mama

Happy Birthday

My Dear Grand Daughter

Harmony

Have You Said

He Is Watching

Healing

Heavy Heart

Held In Safety

Helpmate

Hey Mama

Higher Understanding

How Could You Become

Hudson’s

Huh

I Am

I Come To You

I Know Who You Are

I Remember Love

I Search For You

I Think You Don’t Know

I Thought I Loved You

I Wait For You

I Was, I Am,

I Will Always Be

If I Could Wish

In The Distant Silence

In The Shadows Of Katrina

Intercessory Thoughts

Introspection

It’s Better I Tell You Now

Ivory Towers

Jaxon

Jehovah

Journey

Joy Revisited

Joyce

Juanita’s Joy

Jules

Kali

Keisha

Kirra

L.V. Station

Laura

Life Undone

Little Lass

Logos

Love

Love Absent

Love Possession

Love’s Contemplations

Maiyuko

Mama, Mama

Marian

Melodic Smile

Memories Of Beauty

Mi

Mike

Morning Bird

Mother Africa

Mother, I Miss You!

My Baby

My Son

Naimah Rose

Needing You

Nene

Nephew

Never Alone

Newtown

Nostalgic Rain

Nostalgic Sonata

Now Do You Remember

Now I Know

On My Way Home

On This Day

One Prayer

One Step From Perpetuity

Out Of Time

Painful View

Past 1²th

Pearl

Perilous Times

Pieces Of A Dream

Please Stop

Preciousness Of Time

Preparation For Peace

Pressing On

Provisions Of An Unknown Need

Pseudo Woman

Pure Love

Quicken Me

Reaching Back

Recapitulation

Reciprocity

Reflections

Reprobate Mind

Restoration

Revelations

Revelatory Prayer Praise

Rhythms Of Love

Running On Empty

Sally

Seven

Shortness Of Time

Silence

Solitary Contemplations

Solitary Refinement

Sorrow

Soul Mate

Soulful Closure

A Spoken Masterpiece

Spiritual Sabotage

Still In Love

Stunned

Surprise Visit

Tae

Tammy

Tearful Dreams

Tenderness And Immeasurable Power

Thankful Heart

The Dream

The Fear Of You

The First Daughter

The Gift

The Immutable One

The Invisible Man

The Need To Intercede

The One

The Perfect Stranger

The Proud One

The Reclamation—Tender One

The Struggle

The Time

These Times

Thinking Of You

This Hole

This Thing

Tick Tock

Tiller Of The Soil

Time Or Eternity

Time Travel

Tired And Numb

Tonight

Touch

Tranquility

Tsunami

Twilight Love

Undying Love

Unmistakably You

Unrapable Mind

—Vernita—

Vintage Love

Vision In My Mind

Visitation

Wait, I Say

What Happened

What Kinda Man

When All Has Gone

When I First Saw You

When I Walked Away

When Will You Repent

When You Understand

Where Has She Gone?

Who Feels

Wisdom

Wisdom Revealed

Wishing

Word Reflections

Written Destines

Yearning

You And Me

You And Me—Everlasting

You Came To Me

You Take Me

Your Birthday Memory

Your Choice, Not Mine

Zandra

A New Song

Perfect Will

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Thank you Father for the privilege of prayer, the gifts of salvation, and the gifts of the Comforter. Thank You for the revelations and conformations of your word. Thank You for the preparation of my heart for wisdom. Thank You for the revelation of the secrets of wisdom. In Your name there abides power. Glory to the Most High God!

(El Elyon)

DEDICATION

It is with the greatest of reverence that I dedicate these pages to the ubiquitous

I AM!

Thank you for the ability to manifest my thoughts in the expression of words. Thank you for all my brothers and sisters, my entire family and extended family. Thank you for allowing me to hear your voice in the sky. We were four but now we are one.

PREFACE

This book is a private collection of personal thoughts, a look through a window of relationships, good and bad times, divine images, an elegy of life, and the pathos of death. Its journey has healed, blessed, and truly taken me through a revelatory metamorphosis that has cleansed me and left me a better man. I sincerely hope that it may bless you in a similar fashion.

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83RD & HOOVER

Sitting here in borrowed space

By a slightly ajar window

Escaping the hot dry breath

Of this summer day

Forced to make a choice

Between suffocating heat

Or the eclectic sounds

Of the city

Each with its own

Rhythm and compel

All driven by a different need

To hide from the reality

Of today

And the uncertainty of tomorrow

Ice cream trucks

Moving slowly throughout

The neighborhood

Playing enticing

Grade school melodies

Drowning out the tambourine

And voices

Of a nearby church choir

The barking of an unattended dog

Over run by sirens

Of racing police vehicles

Moving swiftly

Passing without hesitation

Those ladies of the night

As if they were

Just necessary scenery

Needing to be there

To fit in this

Obtuse compartmentalized environment

Acting as though it is normal

A young woman struggles

With groceries

And young men stand idle

Staring into her plight

Smoking those herbs

Of alteration

Numb to her need

And predicament

While an overcast sky

Creeps in

To complete this

Repetitious intercity mural

A CRY FOR TRUTH

I feel like I should

Be doing much more

As this drum beats

Inside my psyche

Cry Kemet Nu!

Adamatu!

Calling me to rediscover

The roots of my beginning

When everything patterned itself

From my people

Power crazed minds

Fictionalizing my history

As their own

Commissioning the famed in art

To recreate

A new vision

Of the Son of God

Printing fraud

In the pages of their texts

Enslaving the minds

Of the colors

Of this world

A DAY IN A LIFE OF HARMONY

Joyous and filled with life

Piercing dark majestic eyes

Examining the very things

You see and hear

Through the curiosity

Of the wisdom

Beyond your years

Chasing her voice

While you are yet young

As she reveals herself

And then hides

To watch her gifts blossom

Within your heart

Cultivating and nurturing

The harmony

Of your ordered life

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A GIFT—FOR ME

Contented in this place

Of peace

Where anxious and anxiety

Are absent

And are allowed no longer

To play

Settling into this value

Of what my placement

Has become

Working with the blessings

That are placed before me

Appreciating the favor

Of my victories

In expectantly, a great gift

From above

Letting me witness

This exchange

Through Your touch

Bringing this new thing

Into my world

Changing acceptance

Into a good thing

And the return of my joy

A GOOD THING

When you were born

I could see the joy in your eyes

Your eyes-piercing dark

And filled with wisdom and peace

From the kitchen window

The youngest of that group

But anointed with knowledge

Of the virtuous woman

Above the curse and wrapped in your inheritance

Soaring beyond the pool of evil

Arise! Stand tall in your meekness

Daughter of Israel

For your pure heart

Will reveal Him

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