Grownup Eruptions & Explorations: My Beginning with No End

By Gloria Pickersgill

Gloria Pickersgill does not sugarcoat important, ignored, real, and forgotten issues. She explores the fear of the unknown with the good and the bad: true love, friendship, hidden secrets of the world, and still a lot of happiness. In her four years at Howard University, she has experienced amazing and touching surprises, opportunities and success, and realities that turned into another volume of poetry. (1) Given a Color Sentence, (2) Slow It Down, (3) Sexual Corners, (4) Surrender Gunshots, and (5) Not Black Enough will show you the realities of life ignored and forgotten. Grownup Eruptions and Explorations still connected to My Beginning with No End series is only for adults with a mature mind and an open mind and the adventurous at heart. Gloria Pickersgill will remain true to herself. Ready or not, here she comes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984543332

Gloria Pickersgill

Gloria Pickersgill was born in Washington DC. She always had an interest in creative writing since her teenage years. As most young adults go and explore on their own she decided to go to Howard University and get a Bachelor's Degree in Public Relations (SLMC) The hardest decision of her life became the best decision of her life. Going to Howard University changed her life beyond her wildest dreams. Gloria Pickersgill experienced the best years of her life and placed her experiences into another volume of poetry, Grownup Eruptions and Explorations connected to My Beginning With No End,volume series. While attending Howard she felt a deeper feeling of belonging, love and culture, she never felt before. Gloria is the real deal and she does not sugar coat important and ignored issues. Reality checks and forgotten issues fill the pages of her poetry books.

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Rev. date: 09/20/2018

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Poems

Introduction

Dedications

Adult Exploration (It’s a grownup thang)

1.     Sensual Symphony

2.     In Only A Dream

3.     If Only Given The Chance

4.     Why Do You Send Me?

5.     Only One Can

6.     Mint Green Towel-Sexual Corners

7.     Her First Last Kiss

8.     Slow Dance In Mind (chocolate blanket)

9.     Silk & Smooth Bubble Bath

10.   First and Last Dance

Explanation

11.   Naked Summer

12.   Craving For …………………

13.   Proposal

Reality Check

14.   Devil

15.   Surrender Gun Shots (short story)

16.   Not Black Enough

17.   Falsely Accused and Arrested

Explanation

18.   Changing Colors (autumn tree leaves)

19.   You Can’t Park There (husband cheating)

20.   Given A Color Sentence

21.   False Image (sickle cell disease)

22.   There Is No Later

23.   How Do You?

24.   The Feeling Of………

25.   Dial Tone

Peace of Mind

26.   Midnight Silence

27.   Slow It Down

28.   Rainbow Angel

29.   Reeya – Sweet Blessing

30.   Snowing

31.   Pure and Refreshing

32.   Spring Breeze

33.   A Church Woman Like Me (a mystery)

34.   Bus Ride To Freedom

35.   Peace of Mind (prayer)

36.   Powerful March In Washington DC

37.   Graduation Day, Smiles & Tears (short story)

38.   Drumline Thunderstorm

Explanation

39.   He Called Me (God)

Explanation

About the Author

Step Into My World

Introduction

After going to Howard University, I continued to place my dreams, my experiences, and my realities into poems. I lost several dear friends and family members in the last few years and now they are with the Lord. They continue to be my inspiration, R.I.P Uncle Tony. I have come across realities in my life that scared me to my core. I had to take the biggest step of my life and take a step back to realize what I still needed to do to fulfill my dreams. I have shed tears, worked through confusion, frustration, and eliminated baggage I never had the chance to work through in such detail before.

A weight has been lifted off my shoulders and now I see life clearer than before. I have realized how precious a few hours up to one day could be. How I could lose a family member in a matter of hours. Life is so precious and so much can be taken for granted when you don’t take the time to see things clearly. I had to make the toughest and the best decision of my life when I decided to leave what was familiar and go to Howard University. A place where I felt I could belong. A place that made me feel free and passionate about life. A place that made me believe in me and my future choices. A place I knew where being myself would be the best thing I could ever do.

Howard University expanded and explored my choices for the better. Howard helped me to realize my responsibilities in life, my dreams, my goals, my wants and needs, my desires, my true love for life, having faith and hope for my future. What an amazing feeling of breathing new life, freedom, and independence into my art.

Over the last 20 years of my