Love, Life, and More: A Self-Reflected Collection of Poems Identifying Feelings of Strength, Weakness, Encouragements, Motherhood, and Much More

By Hania Adel Itawi

You know how to talk.
I know how to write.
Each of us has a strength.
Life is not a run or a walk.
Not an easy task to tell: wrong from right.
Journey is in the meaning not the length.

Hania Adel Itawi is a hard working person with a strong sense of duty. She strives to be the best she can in all facets of her world, and in doing so, gives every thing she has in order to accomplish more than is ever expected.

Hania has a natural gift that is uncommonly powerful and breathtaking. Through her unique ability she reflects on strengths, weaknesses, encouragement, motherhood, and much more. In her poems one can see the same passion for life that she lives day to day. Hania leads others through a variety of relatable emotions and experiences that encourage self-reflection.

Love, Life and More is a volume of poetry that speaks from the heart, and creates a delightful experience for readers to enjoy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abbott Press
• Release date: Jan 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781458222541

Hania Adel Itawi

Hania Adel Itawi is a first - generation immigrant American from Lebanon, a pharmacist, and a mother of two beautiful children who resides in Centerville, Ohio. Love, Life and More is her first volume of poems.

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ISBN: 978-1-4582-2256-5 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2019918203

Abbott Press rev. date: 01/07/2020

Contents

What I Write

Show and Tell

Learn Life

The List

Teaching Grown Up

Wrong Time and Place

Blessed to Have Them

Meant to Be

Words

My Apology

I Hate

Pass or Fail

Accept or Leave

Do Not Play with Fire

Two Faced

Low Makeup

The Hidden

Two Options

Confusing

Never Say Later

The Heart that Loves

You are the Pain

Cannot Talk

Too Big of a Heart

The Pain

The Voice Tells

Keep Adding

Not the Body or the Mind

Not Known

Faces and Races

Let Your Mind Read

My Gift

The Circle

Politics

Stories

Wrong Direction

Do Not Start

No Voice

Need to Stop

Hard Work

Tomorrow

There is Something

We Leave Behind

Too Late

Every

The Ship has Sailed

In a Zone

Do Not Judge

Crushing Stone

Actions Talk

Fun and Pain

Pure Feeling

Have You?

A Leader

The Door

Face to Face

The Day I Met You

Determined

Are You Alive?

Clear the Mind

If Only

The Wave and the Shore

When You …

You & I

Who we Should Love

Step Up Your Game

Fight to Right

Fake and Real

Own Time

What We Need

What We Do

A Mother

In the Head

Right Place

One Person

People Come and Go

We Used to

Wrong Direction

High Expectation

Description

Close my Heart

Nature is Sad

All You Need

Conscious

What I feel

The Past

Please Keep Writing

The Judge

Me Time

A Reason

Best Kids

Save Me a Seat

Imagine

Never Compare

Good Different

Power

My Wish Is,

Not the Same

Inner War

Far from Home

My Time

Who Am I ?

You Killed me First

Laser Focused

It is Not Only

I Almost Died

They Say

Bigger Heart

Blanket of Pain

I Wanted

The Ghost

Heavy Rain

I Miss

Living In Pain

Giving

Who Will Take Care of You

I Am Not the One.

Say and Do

Sharper Than a Sword

Ever Since

Sense of Duty

The Wrong Well

Find Ways to Succeed

Do Not Hold Back

Success is Not Given

Uncertainty

Special Place

Broken Promise

Not a Game

Not Every Body

Deep Scar

Different Path

You Do Not Exist

You Teach Me

Both Tired

The Heart

Take a Word

Say and Tell

Hope - the Dog

I Will Die

Life Takes You

A Storm

That One Day

Close the Heart

Writing

Continuous Quiz

Used to

Love Was Once

Life is Challenging

Once Upon a Time

Maya & Malek

You Will Grow Up

Shining Star

My Niece

Far Away

Thank You

Close Your Eyes

To My Child -1

To My Child -2

For Eternity

Dirt

Never Give Up

Pain Needs to Stop

Membership

Have Hope

They Moved on

Must Change

Nothing Matters

Choices and Actions

Change

Never Ending Class

It Will Shine

Phrase

Baby in Me - 1

Baby Name

Baby in Me- 2

Baby in Me - 3

Baby in Me - 4

Your Presence

This is Life

Baby in Me- 5

How Am I Doing?

Counting

Call Me

I Miss You

Husband and Wife

Life Will Not Stop

No More Tears

To Do List

Life is Short

Happy Secretary Day

Not Fighting

I Told You

Never Leave

No Difference

Maybe

First Words

No Longer

Pharmacy

You

What I Write

All that I write is for you to read.

All I want is for you to succeed.

I will push you toward heights you have never been to.

Nothing but the best I will expect from you.

I will be with you every step of the day.

I will not tell you what to do. You will know your way.

I will not preach to you. Life will teach you more than me.

Be ready to learn from all that you experience and see.

My trust you have. Do not take it lightly.

In my heart I will pray for you nightly.

Always take steps to better yourself,

But never ignore me or forget me on the shelf.

Show and Tell

We know more than what we show and tell.

We buy some feelings, and others we sell.

We get attached. We give more than what we receive.

Happiness we need; sadness behind we try to leave.

We run from reality, but there is nowhere to hide.

We live in a dream, but it is only true in the mind

I love the me that once was in your arms.

I cannot forget your image and your charms.

The me close to you is someone I rarely see.

I struggle every day to let things just be.

The me you got out should have never come to life.

Now I’m passing time and doing my best to survive.

Learn Life

Beauty is not seen in the eyes.

Politeness is not only by just being nice.

What is around you is not all real.

Happiness is not what we always need to feel.

Some answers found behind a closed door.

Stand with strong steps on the floor.

Look beyond your sight to see truth.

Get your own seat, desk, or a booth.

Learn from life before you decide.

Do not give up or try to hide.

No one said it is an easy ride.

Aim for a big heart and a bright mind.

The List

Our list of things to do might be endless.

Ignoring loved ones is senseless.

We add people to our circles we cannot handle.

We let some burn slowly just like a candle.

We want some gone, but it’s hard for us to say.

We did use some, and they made us happy that one day.

Everyone has lots of things to do.

Everyone is overwhelmed, including