Poetic Stories Relating to Life: Part 1

By Myra Yelverton Kornegay

Itruly hope you were enlightened by the different stories that are so real within people’s lives today. Some of us can relate to these stories and there are those that cannot; however, in this life before we die we all will experience something whether we share it or not, yet by doing so we can encourage the next person to pull through while going through.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728331522

Myra Yelverton Kornegay

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Published by AuthorHouse 11/20/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-3153-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-3152-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019916233

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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE HAD SIMILAR EXPERIENCES CONCERNING THESE POETIC STORIES. THEY SPEAK ABOUT SITUATIONS THAT SOME PEOPLE CAN NOT OPENLY DISCUSS. THESE POEMS ARE AN EVERYDAY REALITY, AND REGARDLESS TO WHAT HAS NOT BEEN EXPOSED OVER THE YEARS, EVERYTHING WILL NOT GO TO THE GRAVE…

Contents

You Will Learn to be Grateful

Not Being Born

A Child with A Disability

Panhandling, Down on My Luck

There’s A Price to Pay, Living on the Other Side of the Tracks

Slowly Transitioning

When It’s Your Time

Sorry You Got Fired

Enjoying the Morning Sounds

The Life of Time (Take Advantage of it)

When Your Storm Passes

Growing Up Miserable

Casinos

Respect Mother Nature

What Would You Change?

Words Do Come Alive

Keep It in the Bedroom

Being Gay Is Your Choice

People with False Deceptions

Just Because it is What it is

Pulling the Plug

Surviving the Storms

I am the Wind

They Bully You

My Hands

The Elderly

Riding the Friendly Skies

Be Careful Who You Call Friend

Did I Retire Too Early?

Be Careful of the Shoes You Choose

What We Do

Accept It

Deadly Storms

Is Life Any Better Than This?

Think Outside the Box

Highly Favored

They Way Has Already Been Paved

Where Is the Love?

This Place

Just Do It and Get It Done

Embrace Your Today

Go Away Sinus

Overlook Your Haters

Hurricane Florence 2018

The Beauty of the Sun

The C Word

From Rebellious To A Little Star

God’s Timing is Not Your Timing

I’m Evil and I’m Waiting for You

Guarding My Heart Against the Sticks and the Stones

Time Is A Precious Gift

Always A Fool Until Wisdom is Invited

Stop Entertaining Your Past Hurts

This World We Live In

`The Holiday Blues

Light Beyond the Tunnel

Losing My Only Child

To Each’s Own

Just Imagine the Softness of Life

From Man to Man, To My Christian Brothers

Stop Deceiving Yourself

It Was Hard, But You Didn’t Give Up

Enjoying the Dark Shadows

All Dreams Aren’t Reality

Happy Father’s Day to You Mothers

You Lost A Good Thing When You Walked Away

God’s Mercy in a Backslidden State

People’s Actions

Someone Special Gone Too Soon

Wanting What You Can’t Afford

Can A Wounded Heart Move On?

Some People Are Seasonal

You’ve Changed

Prepare Yourself for A Wife

Would You Want To Know

Tips

The Unknown Death Date

Thank You My Friend

Time Doesn’t Wait

The Uncertainties of Life

I’m Loving Me

You Saw What He Needed You To See

My Conscience Does Not Bother Me

Restore This Broken Marriage

He’s Not the One

For God So Loved Us

Time Is on Our Side

You Have Got My Attention

God’s Judgement is Fair

I’m Rethinking You

A Shameful Conscience

You Are Special to Me

Our Love is Special

Every Moment I’m Waiting for You

Goodbye

Walk Away

It’s Not Worth It

In Your Presence

My Only Son

Get Over It

Trying to Make Something Right When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong

Tricked By A Feeling

High Maintenance

I Wish You Well

Don’t Throw in The Towel, Just Pass the Test

Women are Beautiful

Just Be Real

The Unthinkable

I Found My Queen

Was It the Right Decision?

I’m Not Chasing Being Friends with You Anymore

Abused

Some Friendships Aren’t Forever

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You Will Learn to be Grateful

When your body begins to shut down,

There’s literally nothing that you can do.

When your mind constantly strays,

Your memory becomes short

More than just a few…

When you can’t speak a full sentence

Without you stumbling over a word,

And when it becomes more difficult

To repeat immediately what you’ve just heard…

When you find yourself not being able

To control your bathroom flow;

Either getting dressed, going to a familiar place

You now do not even know…

When your appetite has decreased

And you complain more of what you eat;

Finding yourself not having the strength

To walk away or pull yourself up from a seat…

When you start realizing the difference

How people now act towards you;

They no longer having any respect

Knowing there’s nothing you can do…

When you watch your independence

Slowly slipping away;

When you find yourself depressingly

Just existing from day to day…

What do you do?

What can you do

When you don’t have the strength

To do what you once could do…

When you have to depend on someone

Giving you aide every single day;

Just enjoy every little moment

And be thankful to God in every way.

Myra Yelverton Kornegay

February 20, 2018

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Not Being Born

In my mother’s womb

my body was beginning to form

but suddenly I was destroyed

and not given that chance to be born…

I wasn't given that privilege

to have any kind of life,

because my mother’s decision

gave one permission

to disassemble me with a knife…

Growing into love

would have been a priceless gift to me;

perhaps God ordained it

maybe the evilness of her world

he didn’t want me to see…