A Young Girl's Journey into the Woman She Becomes: A Collection of Poems

By Dége

Sit back and reflect on the girl you are and the woman you could become.

A Young Girl's Journey into the Woman She Becomes is a collection of motivation and inspirational poetry along with creative thoughts that explore the mind of a girl finding herself.

This book is broken into seven chapters based on the seven chakras. Poems explore the feminine journey of love, trust, desire, awareness, creativity, wisdom and more. Follow the path of one young woman that may open a doorway to yourself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781982242275

Dége

Dege has been writing in some form or another for over 29 years. She started as a teenager and never stopped. Some of her inspirations stem from Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Gabby Bernstein, and other empowering authors. Her poetry style utilizes contemporary free verse to explore powerful and emotional experiences. She hopes to use her writing to both motivate and inspire others as they go on their individual life journeys. Find out more about her at degesinspirations.com.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-4228-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-4227-5 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 01/28/2020

CONTENTS

Part I Trust to Ground Yourself

One, Three, Seven

The Labyrinth

How Can, One Day

Pain

Should Have Been You

Resistance

Disgrace

I Know

Tears Can Be

Ears Like a Rabbit

Course Of

Never Broken

Unexplainable

What if Tomorrow

Jealous

Letting You Go

Part II Love Yourself to Want and Create

Plain and Simple

Why That Night

I Will See You

Letter

My Friend

Broken

Help Me to Grow

I Saw Myself

Desired Kiss

An Escape

How Can We

Old

Believe In

Flowers

Understanding

Part III You are Enough to Have the Wisdom and Power to Act

That Moment

Night and Day

Commenting

Theirs

67 Miles

Stream

Jealousy

Every Sigh

Standing from Behind

Deep

Been Gone

Have You Become

Regrets

Part IV Peace to Love and Heal

Try

When We Met

Forgetting

T.L.

Love

Look

Special Night

Never Say Goodbye

Just You and Me

Just for You

Now and Then

Love is What You Make of It

Eternity

Slowly Apart

Silent Hand

The Long Journey

Tied Up

Another Day Without You

Part V Voice to Motivate and Speak

Dreams

Dream World

A Child’s Dream

Friend

Rose Tears

Hold on to Fate

Changing

Children

Knowing, for They Spoke

Notice in My Writings

The Darkest

Guardian

Time Moves Before

The Grass Grows

I Am the Land

Too Sad

Speaking Back

One Good One

Words Don’t Explain

Dear Friend

Part VI Intuition to See and to be Aware

The Walk

That Woman

When You

A Dream

Fancy

Why a Tear Falls

Said

We Dreamed

Leo Heart

Before the End

Absorb

To Live

Rest My Head On

Calming

New to You and Me

Looking So

Which Is Me?

Part VII Resilience to Know and to Learn

Journey to Growth

Willing to Learn

Don’t

Her

Growth

Understanding Love

Gathering Souls

Changing Thoughts

Being There

Falling

Ripped Away

Quiet Moment Alone

Set in Stone

DEDICATION

To Cortney Ritchie-Davis who has been my lifelong friend and was there when I started putting pen to paper. Thank you to my beta readers and spell checkers Allison Reed, Kristen Davis and Elizabeth Jasmund. Most of all my PR editor and friend Tamra Artelia Martin, her patience and guidance made all of this possible.

PREFACE

I dreamed of this book for young women who think they are alone and that what they feel is not felt by others. We all struggle, and we all feel things that we think we are alone in experiencing. The universe has a bigger