Love and Celebrate You

By Marilene L. Evans

When I was a young girl, I wanted to be a dancer. Two months after my retirement, I joined two Zumba classes and, two months later, a ballroom dancing class. I felt free and lighthearted doing what I wanted to do and what I’m passionate about. I also started exploring myself, and while doing so, I looked back at the hardships I had gone through in more than five decades of my life and how I evolved. I’m here more courageous and stronger to continue my life journey.

I had written poems before, occasionally, and just recently discovered that I can motivate, encourage, and uplift others through my other passion: writing poetry. Poems that inspire us to rise above circumstances for no matter how hard and how many times we fall, we can get up and keep on going. It does not matter how slow or how long it takes to get back up. It is one’s unfaltering spirit, will, and determination that count, giving our all on whatever we do and bringing out the best in us.

Everything is within us, within our reach. It is all up to us. Peace, contentment, and happiness are decisions, and it is up to us to decide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728311425

Marilene L. Evans

Marilene was born, raised and educated in the Philippines. She came to the United States and settled in Southern California in June, 1974. She worked in the insurance industry, most of her forty three working years. She is a mother to four children and a grandmother to seven grandchildren. She is retired and pursuing her passions in dancing and writing. Her experiences of being discriminated in the work force for being female and having English as a second language, of being a single mother to four children, and her personal and financial losses have inspired her to write poems on rising above circumstances, loving one’s self, growing, developing, exploring and learning continuously.

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© 2019 Marilene L. Evans. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 05/17/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-1143-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-1142-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019906010

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dedicate this book of poetry to my four children, Dennis, Maybelle, Jonathan and Melissa, and to my mother, Adelina.

My special thanks to my daughter, Missy (Melissa), who provided assistance and insights in finalizing this book.

CONTENTS

1.     Beautiful You

2.     Know You And Your Gifts

3.     Give Your All

4.     You Are Your Life

5.     Your Moods, Your Thoughts

6.     Renewal Of Your Mind

7.     Free Yourself

8.     Love And Celebrate You

9.     Law Of Attraction

10.   Love

11.   Believe

12.   Passion

13.   Paths Of Life

14.   Acts Of Kindness

15.   Words

16.   Let Go

17.   Yesterday

18.   Today

19.   Tomorrow

20.   Reflect

BEAUTIFUL YOU

Have you looked at yourself lately?

Did you do it sincerely?

Did you see the beautiful you?

Yes, you!; the inside and out of you.

Are you happy with what you see?

Yes?, you are damn lucky.

So, so?, you are quite unsurely.

No?, you are acting strangely.

Is your answer so, so or no?

Focus on the you that you