Words from the Heart: A Book of Poetry

By Keith E. Carter

Words from the Heart takes its readers on an emotional journey through three chapters of poems. Each chapter offers its own flair, focusing on a variety of subjects including inspiration, self-reflection, race/ cultural issues, love, loss, and emotional healing. Something to Think About presents reflective verses that promote mindfulness and healing. Its Not as Simple as Black & White challenges us to look at race issues and explore our perspectives toward different cultures of people. Letter introduces poetry in the form of messages written to anonymous readers, expressing gratitude, remorse, elation, grief, and inquisitions of life. Come and take this journey, youll never be the same!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524540746

Keith E. Carter

Keith E. Carter was born in Kentucky and moved to New York at eighteen to pursue a career in the performing arts. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Wagner College and master’s of science degree from Columbia University. Keith has been fortunate in holding a career as a performer (actor/singer/dancer) and later transitioning his career to the health and helping field. He has participated professionally in the fields of performing arts/creative art therapy, child welfare, academic clinical research, HIV prevention, school social work, homeless services, LGBT services, college instruction, and inpatient/ outpatient psychiatry. Keith currently runs a psychotherapeutic private practice and is the founding director of The Creative Solutions Connection, INC. Keith is currently working as a college professor at several colleges in the New York City metropolitan area, including Touro College, Metropolitan College of New York, and Borough of Manhattan Community College.

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Copyright © 2016 by Keith E. Carter.

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Contents

Something To Think About

Life

Sidewalk of Life

The Meaning of Life

Experiences

Open Your Eyes

What’s Happening

To Want, Watch & Wonder

As I Wondered, I Realized

Listening

Who’s Right/ Who’s Wrong

For the Love of Money

Change

Field of Flowers

Leaving

Why I Cry

Friends

Dry Your Eyes

Remembering

Remember Me

I Sat and Thought About You

I Miss you

For Valentine’s Day

To Dance Is To Love

Love Through My Eyes

What I Tell People

Goodnight

Another Day

I Would Like To Say Thank You

Thank You People

It’s Not As Simple As Black & White

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10

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Letters

To Whom It May Concern,

To Those Learning To Tell Time,

Dear Teachers,

Dear Children,

Dear People,

To Whom It May Concern,

To Whom It May Concern,

Dear Black Child,

Dear Reader,

To Whom It May Concern,

To Whom It May Concern,

Dear Worker,

Hey Beautiful,

Dear Lovers,

Dear Friends,

Dear Lost Family,

Dear Mother,

Dear Sister,

Dear Robin,

Dear Travelers,

Dear True Friend,

Dear People,

Dear World,

Dear People,

Dear People,

Dear Survivors,

To Whom It may concern,

Dear Adults,

Dear Complainer,

To Whom Ever Cares,

Dear God,

To The Animal Within,

About the Author

Something To Think About

Life

Where we have walked

No one knows

Down many different paths

Experiencing the land of the unknown

Coming in contact with people of the land

Roaming and learning

Evolving from lessons called life

We are the roads we’ve travelled

Each different but similar

In the journey one must experience

Learning and Roaming

Becoming all that life will allow us to be

Sidewalk of Life

As I walk down the sidewalk of life

I always have the urge to turn around and go back

I tell myself no and persist to go forward

But before I enter into the next neighborhood

I can’t resist turning back

Everything looks different, better than before

As I walk the path I’ve already travelled

It begins to rain

I wipe my eye, to my surprise

The sidewalk once traveled had transformed

Damp and slippery

Dark and dreary

Waiting to dampen my feet with its presence

It was then I realized that for me to go back

Only made it harder for me to go further

On the sidewalk called life

The Meaning of Life

While walking the streets of our world

Contemplating the meaning of life

I notice

Some people are wild and others loud

Shaking and Gyrating

Having fun with what they call life

While some are wise, others taught jive

Speaking and Preaching

About what they call life

Others were sad, coming off as to be mad

Frustrated and Disappointed

From what they call life