Is There Brilliance in Resilience?
By Tier King
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It is an honest book of poetic stories about family tragedies and life experiences that will rock you, shock you, and get in your face. It will allow you to feel and to share the depression, the extreme grief, and even the relief from the constancy of it. It forces you to look deeper into the lost and the broken to define it and to then empty it out and to refuse it. Yet the survival through it all teaches us to stand up to anything that breaks us down. It is a brushing of ourselves off. It is a taking of our lives back that is so therapeutic and necessary to our well-being.
Tier King
Tier V. King is one of the many Bakers, which is a large proud family of beautiful, intelligent, and strong people. Of the immediate family though, Tier is the fourth child out of nine children. They are all belonging to two excellent parents who were perfect examples of what a loving marriage and family should look like or be like. Tier started working really young, about eleven years old. Her father ran a successful family business. So working hard to enjoy a good life was taught young throughout the family. In fact, one of the descriptions that Tier enjoys is being a workaholic because she enjoys working hard and staying employed. So straight out of school, she was determined to maintain a good employment history, and she did. However, the one constant observation of Tier was her ability to write. She spoke well, explaining different episodes of her life, and anyone she shared this with always stated, “Your life is so incredible. You must write a book about it. It is a story that must be told!” Yes, Tier knew that she endured much and was saved many times by God himself. God stepped in each time using his saving power in ways that would unmistakably reveal his love and attention to all human matters. She had a responsibility to share these miracles. Is There Brilliance in Resilience? is Tier’s first book. Its poetry is bits and pieces of her life that expresses some of the tragedies that caused her dejection and potential ruin. She has said, “I wrote the poetry because during the shocking parts of my struggling life, I heard poetry. So I’d scurry to write it down so that when I finally write my life story, the people who read both books will notice and get what I meant in certain poems. Yet the poetry is a reminder for me of some of the happenings that I wish not to forget to include when writing my biography.”
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Is There Brilliance in Resilience? - Tier King
Is There Brilliance in Resilience?
By
TIER V. KING
ASEM
Copyright © 2017 by Tier V. King.
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Rev. date: 08/31/2019
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CONTENTS
POETRY ABOUT LOSS AND GRIEVING
1. MISCARRIAGE / SHERKIA VERLEESE KING
IN MEMORY OF MY DAUGHTER, SHERKIA VERLEESE KING
Written by Tier V. King
2. YOUR BIRTHDAY / MY WORST DAY
IN MEMORY OF MY SON, TYRENE QUINDELL BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
3. STILL
IN MEMORY OF MY SON, TYRENE QUINDELL BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
4. FADED DUFFEL BAGS
IN MEMORY OF MY SON, TYRENE QUINDELL BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
5. SEPTEMBER 03, 2013 / LABOR DAY
IN MEMORY OF MY SON, TYRENE QUINDELL BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
6. CHARNEZ
IN MEMORY OF MY NIECE, CHARNEZ LEE
Written by Tier V. King
7. TODAY
IN MEMORY OF MY SON, TYRENE QUINDELL BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
8. EXTREME LOSS
IN MEMORY OF MY SON, TYRENE QUINDELL BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
9. FEELINGS ON THE DAY OF FEBRUARY 18TH
IN MEMORY OF HER BROTHER, TYRENE QUNINDELL BAKER
Written by my daughter, Taylea Teonna Baker-Reeves
10. NEVER SAY GOODBYE
IN MEMORY OF HER BROTHER, TYRENE QUNINDELL BAKER
Written by my daughter, Taylea Teonna Baker-Reeves
11. OH BROTHER
IN MEMORY OF HER BROTHER, TYRENE QUNINDELL BAKER
Written by my daughter, Taylea Teonna Baker-Reeves
12. MOTHER SONG
IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, VERNITA ROBERTA BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
13. AUNT BARBARA
IN MEMORY OF MY AUNT, BARBARA ROBERTS
Written by Tier V. King
14. MEMORIES OF AUNT BARBARA
IN MEMORY OF MY AUNT, BARBARA ROBERTS
Written by daughter, Taylea Teonna Baker-Reeves
15. JULY 1996
IN MEMORY OF MY SISTER, PAMELA MICHELLE JOHNSON AND BROTHER-IN-LAW, NORMAN JOHNSON
Written by Tier V. King
16. THAT SAME JULY
AN ODE OF SISTER, DENISE HALANE BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
17. SCHIZOPHRENIA
A POEM ABOUT MY SISTER, DENISE HALANE BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
18. WHY SO CRUEL?
A POEM ABOUT MY SISTER, DENISE HALANE BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
19. MURDER
IN MEMORY OF MY SISTER, SUSAN ANGELA BAKER-KINCEY
Written by Tier V. King
20. GRANDMOM’S LOST
A POEM ABOUT MY GRANDSON, TYRENE LOUIS BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
21. THE BIGGEST HATER
A POEM ABOUT LOSS AND LOST LOVE
Written by my son, Malique D. Woodhouse
22. AFTERMATH #1
Written by my son, Malique D. Woodhouse
23. WHERE DID YOU TAKE ME AND LEAVE ME ALONE?
A POEM DEDICATED TO MY SISTER, ALLISON ADEL BAKER, WHO LOST HER FIANCE
Written by Tier V. King
24. I BELONGED TO LOVE AND LOVE BELONGS TO ME
A POEM DEDICATED TO MY SISTER, ALLISON ADEL BAKER, WHO LOST HER FIANCE
Written by Tier V. King
25. WITHIN THESE WALLS
IN LOVING MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WE HAVE LOST
Written by Tier V. King
26. UNWANTED CALLS
REGARDING THE HORRIBLE CALLS OF BAD NEWS
Written by Tier V. King
27. GUILT FILLED
IN MEMORY OF MY SON, TYRENE QUINDELL BAKER
Written by Tier V. King
28. APOLOGY
IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER-IN-LAW, SILVESTER DOPWELL
Written by Tier V. King
29. CHARNEZ AND TYRENE
IN MEMORY OF MY SON, TYRENE QUINDELL BAKER AND MY NIECE, CHARNEZ LEE
Written by Tier V. King
JUST A TASTE OF LIFE SITUATIONS POETRY
30. LITTLE GIRL’S DESTINY
Written by Tier V, King
31. DINGY STAINS
Written by Tier V, King
INTRODUCING THE POETRY OF YOUNG MR. JAIME JONATHAN GUERRERO
32. THE SYMBOL OF FREEDOM
33. THE PLACE
34. A BLACK CHILD’S PERSPECTIVE
INTRODUCING THE POETRY OF
MR. TYRENE QUINDELL BAKER
35. I WISH I COULD CRY
36. TEARS OF MY MOMMY
37. RELEASE THE PAIN
38. MY WORST ENEMY
39. DON’T JUDGE ME AS AN IMAGE
SPIRITUAL POETRY
40. PLEASE BE THERE
A POEM OF WISHFUL PARADISE WITH MY HUSBAND – MAKING IT INTO THE PARADISE WORLD
Written by Tier V, King
41. IMPERFECT
Written by Tier V, King
42. GOD DOES HAVE A NAME!
Written by Tier V, King
43. MY GOD, YOU WERE THERE
Written by Tier V, King
44. THE BEGINNING OF A NEW DAY
Written by Tier V, King
45. OUT WITH THE OLD IN WITH THE NEW
Written by my daughter, Taylea Teonna Baker Reeves
46. BURGLARS, MONSTERS AND MURDERERS
Written by Tier V, King
47. IN HONEST PRAYER
Written by Tier V, King
48. MANKIND IS DANCING WITH THE DEVIL
Written by Tier V, King
49. IN CRITICAL TIMES
Written by Tier V, King
50. APPRECIATION FOR OUR ELDERS SERVANTS AND WIVES
Written by Tier V, King
INTRODUCTION
In 2 Chronicles 1 : 5 - 7, 10 – 12 – King Solomon asked God for wisdom and knowledge in order to judge and to rule as King over a great many people. God not only granted King Solomon wisdom and knowledge but he also gave him riches, wealth and honor such as none of the kings had that were before King Solomon’s rule or thereafter.
I thought of King Solomon’s request when I found myself in need of asking God for help with something I deemed imperative to my healing. I remembered as a young girl, whenever I was down hearted or experiencing woe, I would find a peaceful spot in our family home, usually in the basement. There I would sit in a quiet corner, by the boiler room, on the bins. There I would write the most beautiful poetry. There I would express myself in writings about what I could not or did not want to talk about. There I would write away my emotional wounds, like a smoothing them with coca butter, soothing them away with soulful poetry. Yes, poetry was that satisfaction that I gave to myself and a very young realization of a gift from God. It was that pat on the back that I gave myself and even a It’s going to be alright now
nod.
However, years later I would find that I lost my poetic ability and I would find myself in a tearful prayer for poetry.
You see, as a family we started going through a lot of loss. I described it as an eerie feeling of being attacked, beaten or battered by extreme tragedies, one gut punch after the other. I was already going through so much in the life that I was living but as a family, like most families, we had to stay brave to live through the ouch of it all. We suffered much heartache but kept getting up, brushing ourselves off and going on with life.
So poetry became a necessary therapy. I reached for it but I could not find it. I needed it so that I could dig out that gnarly feeling deep within, that gnawing, that clawing away - deep inside of me. There seemed to be no way to sooth it or to empty it out because with all that was already going on and so wrong in my life, at that time, loss became just another constant beat down.
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