Keeping It Real: Poetry from the Soul

By Jeffrey Talton

The book is a passionate journey through varied emotions experienced in human life and I'm just keeping it real.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503551381

Jeffrey Talton

I was born on October 3, 1955 to Ernest and Geraldine Talton. My parents were hard working and did whatever they could to raise me and my 7 brothers and sisters. My mother called me the lucky one. I grew up in Highland Park, MI which is a suburb of Detroit. As a young man I decided that I wanted to do what in the eyes of the law was wrong and had got caught up in the judicial system. The look on my mother’s face was more hurting than anything and I knew that I had to make a change. As I stood in front of the judge I realized that this would be a life changing moment for me. I had come to a fork in the road and I had to make the decision of which door I wanted to travel down. I was 19 on my own and going in the wrong direction, got myself locked up and brought to my knees. I looked around and wondered; where are all my friends? My real friend showed up with an application in hand for Eastern Michigan University starting in the fall of 1975. I am a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. So thanks to the Lord and a praying mother I was given a second chance.

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Copyright © 2015 by Jeffrey Talton.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2015903774

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5035-5137-4

                Softcover        978-1-5035-5139-8

                eBook             978-1-5035-5138-1

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Table of Contents

3 Wishes

A Good Cigar

A New Detroit City Council

Angela

As Time Goes By

Be My Valentine

Beautiful

Big Mamma

Birthday Girl

Black Woman

Boys to Men

Brother

Captain of My Soul

Christmas in the Hood

Cloud Nine

Courage 2

Cousin

Detroit Pride

Don’t Die Brother

Father to Son

Features of Love

Finally

First Love

Forgiven

Friends and Strangers

Go Now

God Hears You

God Knows

God Said Thou Shall Not Kill

Good Morning Vietnam

Haiti

Happy Fathers Day

Happy Mother’s Day

Highland Park

Hope

I Love You 2

I Love You

I Pledge Allegiance

I Sit Alone

I Still Love You and I just Can’t Stop

I’ll Wait

In the Morning

It’s About Time

It’s Time to go Home

Life is too Short

Little Ghetto Boy

Loved Yet Alone

Momma

My Children

My Dreams

My Girl

My Sands and Our last Visit

New Orleans

On The Corner

Our Ex Mayor Mr. Kilpatrick

Our United States

Pain

Passion

Power

Rain

Right Now

Role Models

Sam Riddle

Set Me Free

Special Love

Straight Scared

Stranded in Love

Summertime in the City

Sunset

Taffy

Terrie Lynn

Thank You

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Highway of Life

The Little Boy Inside Me

The Look of Love

The Man in the Mirror

The Mountain Top

The Sounds of the Trumpets

The Sounds of the Wild

The View

This Time

Time

Toast to my Daughter

We Just Fit

Weathering the Storm

Wedding Day

What about Me?

With Deepest Sympathy

Yet I Live

You and I

3 Wishes

The little boy was told by the genie you have 3 wishes what will they be? The boy responded I want to be a very rich man and the Genie responded and it is so.

The boy said I want to have a beautiful family and house and the Genie responded and it is so.

And finally the boy asked for the 3rd wish. The boy asked if he could see his Dad one more time; as the boys dad had died the year prior, and the Genie said and it is so.

The boy died and left a wife, a bank full of money and a beautiful home.

The moral to this story is be careful for what you ask for or what you pray for, because it may come back in a different way than you planned.

A Good Cigar

A Good Cigar….

Means so many different things,

A celebration after hitting the winning shot.

The memory of love ones who we haven’t forgot.

The proud moment when the baby arrives,

A victory toke after accomplishing some serious strides,

Something we come back to time and time again.

In our garages as we have learned to retreat.

At the parks as we are about to prepare our meat.

We love the smell of that romantic scent, the puff of smoke that some ladies resent.

A symbol of class, maturity, prosperity, confidence and charisma for all who can last.

A good cigar is all these things and they don’t burn fast.

A New Detroit City Council

Full of hope and ready to embrace and create a change,

To move this city forward and away from the shame.

We’ll see says the citizens as the honest and sincere take the reins.

The voters have spoken as they elected some of the same.

We’ve done well in the Council members that we voted in,

Take a look around you as they all fit in.

No more name calling, changing votes and game playing goes on. We just want to work together to rebuild Detroit’s neighborhoods from now on.

You see it was time for a change as we change to a smaller neater Detroit; one that you can’t pay to play merely for the buck. Our City Council has a brand new face one that is sincere in eliminating and removing the waste. Honesty and Integrity are again at the top of our New City Council the cream of our Crop.

Angela

Once again I’ve been blessed to celebrate a birthday by your side.

I won’t mention your age, so I don’t have to hide.

A lady as beautiful as you was very hard to find.

A woman so right for me sent to me just in time.

See God sent me an Angel and I call her Angela so everyone won’t know.

I have my Angel and I won’t let you go. This happy birthday poem is what I want to say,

Have a great birthday and let’s start it today.

From your loving