Burnt Orange

By Maria Chisolm

Burnt Orange is a poetry book with critical points of views. It is a book of expression translating fact and fiction into a movement. It is a book focused on humankind having a delicate approach towards social devastation. There are a complexity of subjects that will make its readers cry, laugh and wonder from beginning to the end, having colors melting softly, unapologetically. Maria welcomes readers to explore the appreciation of the pen and gladly take with them a muse no longer silenced.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796062458

Maria Chisolm

Writing has been a part of Maria’s life since she was ten years old. She started with journal writing. Back then it was called a diary. In the sixth grade she was introduced to haiku and later started writing poetry. Maria does occasional open-mic poetry readings around New York City, where vibes can be explosive and ecstatic, and where she has had the opportunity of making wonderful friends. She went to Woodbury University in Los Angles and The New York School of Interior Design. She enjoys spending time with her boyfriend, cooking, reading a good novel, shopping for jewelry and interior decorating items, and traveling abroad.

Book preview

Copyright © 2019 by Maria Chisolm.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2019915157

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-7960-6247-2

                Softcover        978-1-7960-6246-5

                eBook             978-1-7960-6245-8

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

Front cover photographed by Bill Jackson and Tarik Mohamed

Author’s Photo photographed by Tarik Mohamed

Rev. date: 01/14/2020

Xlibris

1-888-795-4274

www.Xlibris.com

803293

CONTENTS

Prose

At The Moma

Burnt Orange

The Clarke Sisters

The Jewelry Shop

Tango

Weekend Visits

Sundays Know Best

Adoration

A Love Poem

Focus

Pigeons

Water Color Sound

There are many me’s inside of me

Travel

Fistula

Island Love

Oliver

Pose

Sixteen hours away Bula means hello

The passing of

For Amiri Baraka

For My Nana Hope

Lunch with Daddy

Mary’s Transition

Michael Jackson

In The Garden Is Him

Stay

For Writers

Ain’t No Writers Block Here

My Pen

Poets

Deliberate death

Eleven times and Nineteen Seconds

For Mary Richardson Kennedy

Hushsh

Twilight

Homelessness

Going Back To 40TH Street

Horn Player

New York City is in a state of emergency with homelessness…

Touch

Homeless Man

For Woman

A Woman

I Play My Cello

Blue Dress

How I would raise a little girl

My little girl

Wind

Women for Inez Dade

I am a Universal Soul Sister

Happy ever after

Honey Nut Cheerios

My Wine

Not Much Going On

I know what you will be doing this summer…

Summer Time at Bryant Park

Summer Time

When Winter Comes

Friendship

My Best Friend

To Evie-Girlfriends

Missing You

Third Eye

You and I and the Creator

Expire

Deaths banquet

BOOK SUMMARY

Burnt Orange is a poetry book with critical points of views. It is a book of expression translating fact and fiction into a movement. It is a book focused on humankind having a delicate approach towards social devastation. There are a complexity of subjects that will make its readers cry, laugh and wonder from beginning to the end, having colors melting softly, unapologetically. Maria welcomes readers to explore the appreciation of the pen and gladly take with them a muse no longer silenced.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my Father Joseph Chisolm and my Grandmother Hope Gradick.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Clarke Sisters are my Mother Barbara and Aunt Hope. They have participated in choreographing a few of my open mic poetry readings and editing my manuscript.

Robert Gibbons has been an on-going supportive figure for me with an array of colorful ideas expressed while adoring the respect for The Pen. A High School friend, Martha Harris trusted me to write a poem for the passing of her sister’s memorial ceremony. Arnold Wilson inspired me to write The little girl series in this book. Marie Bridges had me realize that friendship can be toxic as well as harmoniously rewarding and it is okay to write about it. Hope Gradick, my grandmother, embraced me with her charm and a wealth of vocabulary words to choose from and I thank her for that. Deep gratitude and respect to Tarik Mohamed, Josh Baumoehl, Carol Guzman and Jennifer Wilson for their incessant patience for page layout and the configuration of this book.

PROSE

AT THE MOMA

51916.png