Eyes - Words - Womb

By Deatrice Nicia De'Lovely

EYES. WORDS. WOMB. is the sophomore work of Northern CA poetess Deatrice Nicia DeLovely. This compilation of candid poems for women nurtures growth, healing, discovery, individuality, sensuality and advocacy against abuse. With blatant messages the author speaks to you almost exclusively and certainly compassionately, demonstrating sisterhood in the highest regards. Fearless and feminine, this is one book of poetry with something significant for every woman.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483625317

Deatrice Nicia De'Lovely

Deatrice Nicia De’Lovely is an African American Poetess/Playwright/Producer from Northern California. Her poetry emphasizes the power and passion of femininity. She began creating poetry for her beloved mother as a very young child and eventually began using it to cope after surviving sexual abuse. This poetess believes in building character and strength by sharing her own past oppressions and fears. However, instead of stressing being once victimized, she uses her experiences to enlighten, encourage and empower. Her uncensored gospel-like poetry flows rhythmically through various rhyming schemes revealing her love of the melodic 90’s hip-hop era. Her candid nature is instrumental to preventing injuries and healing wounds rather than picking scabs. Promoting assertiveness, self-esteem, awareness and unity is her blatant mission.

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EYES - WORDS - WOMB

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Deatrice Nicia De’Lovely

Copyright © 2013 by Deatrice Nicia De’Lovely.

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Rev. date: 07/01/2013

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Table of Contents    

INTRO

CHAPTER ONE   

EYES

EYES

RISEN

SMILING SIMILES

BIRDS

UNIVERSAL HARVEST

DAY BREAK

EXTERNAL HOPE

SUNSHINE IN MY SMILE

OUR YOUNG

RUNNING

ALIVE IN THESE DEADLY STREETS

AWAKENING

TEDIUM

A DAUGTHERS STARE (short story)

WE EXEMPLIFY

JEALOUS GIRL

ANGRY BLACK WOMAN

CLOUDED

CHAPTER TWO   

WORDS

PRAYER

LADY HIP HOP

RENDERING

UNRESPON… SIVE (WORDS)

EROSION

HOW WE STAND

MY OWN BEAT

UPLIFT MY FIST

I’M COOL

NANA SAID

ME AND MY KINDRED SKIN

DO NOT LEAN!

HELP ME!

IMPRESSIONS

DADDY’S LETTER

PRAY IT AWAY

QUIET STORM

PERILOUS UNIVERSE

REAL TALK

BY GOD, I’M PREPARED

HIS-STORY

GENERATION I

DEFINITELY GOING FORWARD

CHARITY

TARGETED

DEAD NATION

CROWN CLOWN (A SILLY SONG)

CHAPTER THREE   

WOMB

SACRIFICE

MOTHER

MUSCLE

LOVE RECIPROCATES

LOVE LETTER

YOUNG BABY

WOUNDED WOMB

ODE TO MY DECEASED CHILD

INTERNALLY

MY SUNSHINE

BLACK GIRL

URBAN ROSE

SHUGGAH

MY PASSAGE

SAFE PLAY

MEDICINAL KARMA

INSURANCE

THE INTERNAL HURT

STRONGER

MY TREASURE IS STILL SACRED

LIFE SAVER

*MATURE WOMBS *

RIPE OBEDIENCE

PLEASURE PHANTOM

MENTAL EXHIBITIONIST

HOT PUDDING (song)

Intro

Metaphorically speaking, I’m an open book. I am not a scholastic writer. I am simply someone who has an absolute passion for writing with a purpose. My joy was once interrupted for quite some time. During that period I absolutely lost my mind. But I didn’t die, and all that lives heals eventually. Now with restored joy I’m elated just to be. But just being for me will never do. I believe that God gave me a gift and this gift I humbly share with you. My mouth is completely uncensored, but also is my heart. My only desire is to encourage assertiveness and self-esteem through my unyielding words.

Infinite Love,

Nicia De’Lovely

Other published work:

My Brother’s Call Me Bird

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He said that he doesn’t understand me.

I asked, "What’s so difficult to understand?

I’m soft as raw cotton, sweet as Merlot and cool as steam my man."

CHAPTER ONE

EYES

EYES

Do you see me?

Do you really…

Sincerely, clearly see me?

Beyond the cosmetics, meals and love making

Do you see my needs?

Would you recognize them without my whining or warning?

If my fears and deepest passions were to cross your path

Would they be familiar?

Would you acknowledge them, or just let them pass?

Would you ignore them, because they’re weird and wonderful?

Do you know my secrets?

Have you kept them sacred?

If I asked you for a recap of yesterday, instead of a nightcap of Grande Mariner’

Would you deliver?

How about my talents

If they were to present themselves at your door

Would you know what was in store?

If I invited you into my dreams, what would we most likely do?

Which answer are you

False or true?

Could you identify my anxieties?

-My worries

What do they look like?

If they were to suddenly strike

Would your reaction be fight or flight?

What about my sensitivities?

Would you consider them friends or enemies?

If in urgent care, could you describe my allergies?

If the spotlight emphasized my vulnerabilities

Would you unfriend, or defend me?

When my emotions are present, are you?

Do you listen to the woes of my soul?

If circumstances disabled me

Would you commiserate, or fold?

Are you in tune to my every breath?

Could you prove loyal until my death?

No really…

Can you?

Could you identify my silhouette?

Can you draw my aura from memory?

With eyes

Heart

And soul

Do you really see me?

RISEN

Arose and

Chosen

Like the awakening of a people

A stimulated you, me and they

A new era

A new dynasty

The dawning of a new day

We are as seeds to soil

Dormant never

Emerging together

Tolerantly budding beneath the dirt

Within the earth

Feeding, molding, weeding, growing

Saturated with sediment of sentiment

We are concentrated and significant

Mounting

As mountains we are monuments joining the sky

Intensifying as we expand

Gaining wisdom from up high

With dilated eyes wide

And open minds broad like oceans

Now we see

Now we see

We are more than individuals

We are WE

From great pharaohs

Kings and Queens of B.C.

To the present day revolutionaries in DC

Displaced, defaced, disgraced and misplaced

YET today we know our place in this great human race

Demonstrating that we are none the lesser

Standing proudly on the spirit of our ancestors

Pioneering like Kool Herc and James Brown

We have risen to now get down

No longer will our oppressed tears and weary feet greet the