Feathers of Reality

By Alyx Jen

My book has been accepted for publish by Stonewall Press, PA.
Describes how growing up and playing tennis with the daughters of my mom’s tea circle of friends. The daughters gave me the mind and strength to travel alone to Europe I discovered that my silky long straight black hair worn down the front of my white silk, shirt black skirt straight just above knees, black jacket and then shoes were three inch heels sling pumps click as I walked on tiles and at the Louvre Museum in Paris one male followed me out and stopped me to invite me out to dinner. In Greece one male offered to pay for lodging in tourist hotel. He kept looking at my hair. I had to get the conceirge to get me a taxi to leave and get to the train station - I purchased a Eurail Pass cost $100 American bills - you can get off anywhere in Europe and get back on anywhere. That was when I took advantage to walk the small villages and markets.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664148819

Alyx Jen

I was born during the depression era... However, family was not affected as my father owned property which was later bought by the city to build the Fiesta grounds and he owned and property where a popular cafe was always busy.... and my dad had a grocery store. He used to take me to the farmers market to get produce for his store. Since my older sister and brother played tennis at the nearby park on weekends I slowly learned how to focus where the ball should land so as to make my returns very competitive which they loved having to backhand tennis racquet. When I was alone I would practice hitting the blank wall of an empty building. I learned early how best to use my time when I was alone... Now writing poetry in solitude...read Bible daily, play piano, read murder mysteries written by women and write poetry as spiritual growth leads my octagenerian years.... World Poetry Movement “Best Poet 2012” Certificate “Poetic Achievement” 1990 from Vassar Univ.

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Rev. date: 12/18/2020

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Feathers of

Reality

Poetry Mind Thoughts

Woman to Woman....

ALEX JEN AKA

BY SOPHIA NG

Awards

•     Graduated with Honors

 San Francisco Art Academy

 May 13, 1973

•     Received Certificate of Poetic Achievement

 Amherst University, 1990

 Signed by Paul Brodes, Director

•     Received Framed Certificate

Best Poet and Poems 2012

 World Poetry Movement

 Gold Medal Attached by Velvet

 Blue Ribbon and three additional pins gold

•     Book = Best Poets 2018

 Book Published Poem

 Love is the Strongest Glue in the World

 Book published by Eber & Wein

 Poet: Alyx Jen

 Aka =

Biography

I was born during the depression era... However, family was not affected as my father owned property which was later bought by the city to build the Fiesta grounds and he owned and property where a popular cafe was always busy.... and my dad had a grocery store. He used to take me to the farmers market to get produce for his store.

Since my older sister and brother played tennis at the nearby park on weekends I slowly learned how to focus where the ball should land so as to make my returns very competitive which they loved having to backhand tennis racquet. When I was alone I would practice hitting the blank wall of an empty building. I learned early how best to use my time when I was alone...

Now writing poetry in solitude...read Bible daily, play piano, read murder mysteries written by women and write poetry as spiritual growth leads my octagenerian years....

World Poetry Movement Best Poet 2012

Certificate Poetic Achievement 1990 from Vassar Univ.

My book has been accepted for publish by Stonewall Press, PA.

Describes how growing up and playing tennis with the daughters of my mom’s tea circle of friends. The daughters gave me the mind and strength to travel alone to Europe I discovered that my silky long straight black hair worn down the front of my white silk, shirt black skirt straight just above knees, black jacket and then shoes were three inch heels sling pumps click as I walked on tiles and at the Louvre Museum in Paris one male followed me out and stopped me to invite me out to dinner. In Greece one male offered to pay for lodging in tourist hotel. He kept looking at my hair. I had to get the conceirge to get me a taxi to leave and get to the train station - I purchased a Eurail Pass cost $100 American bills - you can get off anywhere in Europe and get back on anywhere. That was when I took advantage to walk the small villages and markets.

My Life as a Poet

Writing poetry after I travelled alone to Europe late seventies inspired my creative mind to enjoy solitude as May Sarton expressed in her book Solitude creative minds focus on silent periods of time that include meditation.. when it inspires others... I thank God for the silent times.

The World Poetry Movement gave me a certificate with title Best Poet 2012 which hangs on my wall framed and three gold medal pins to wear on clothes. Also the Vassar University mailed me a certificate of Poetic Achievement 1990. What will happen to my awards when I give up my live body and soul?

Biography

THE AUTHOR GREW UP IN San Antonio, Texas. She attended the University of Texas, San Antonio, at the age of sixteen. While married, she attended Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California, and lived in Laguna Beach where she was a scholarship student at the Laguna Beach Academy of Art & Design in the mid-seventies. As part of the scholarship program she painted stage props for the Laguna Moulton Playhouse.

• Held First Womens Film Festival in San Francisco’s Art Institute’s---

Lecture Hall which seated 500 women for two nights of Films. Canyon Cinema provided mailing list to advertise the film festival; for the posters advertising the film festival to staple at telephone poles; and provided the projectionist. Included among films shown was the film: Three Lives produced and filmed by Kate Millet, author of Sexual Politics and Flying.

• Poetry Awards: Editors Choice Award 1997;

- Poem Waking Feelings included in the Anthology "Essence Of A Dream", Nat’l Library Of Poetry

- Poem Envelopes included in the Anthology: The Outstanding Best Poets of 1998, Published by The International Library of Poetry, Washington, D.C.

- Poem Rust published in anthology Garden Of Life, 1995, WaterMark Press, Nat’l Library Of Poetry, Wash. DC

- Poem Untitled received Certificate Of Poetic Achievement Award, 1990, from The Amherst Society, Paul L. Rhodes, Executive Director.

Contents

Feathers of Reality

A Connundrum

A Cuss Word

Accronyms

Addiction 1

~ Addictions ~

A Drink Comes in Handy

A Higher Power

A Longing for Milk

~ A Martini ~

Amazon

A Pound at a Time

Apparition

Asceticism

A Special Date

A Wave of Probability

Baby Oh Baby

Band - Aid

Bara Avis

Barbie Doll

Best Friend

~ Biblia ~

~ Bicycle, Car, Motorcycle ~

Birthday

Blast from the Past

Book Must Read

~ Boyfriends ~

Brains

Buns...Buns...Buns

~ Caterpillar or Butterfly ~

Cats and Dogs

Cat

Cause and Effect

~ Cave ~

Cell Phone

~ Change ~

~ Charismatic ~

Childish Energy

Chips

Circle

Closed for Business

~ Comfort ~

Conundrum

~ Copious Blessings

~ Corporate ~

~ Crawly Beasties ~

~ Crop Selection ~

~ Dance ~

Daring

Darkness and Light

Decisions

~ Depression ~

~ Desperate for Love ~

~ Digit ~

Dimple on Chin

~ Disguise ~

Do Not Enter

Douche

Eclipse

Enough Is Enough

Epicanthic Folds

Etiquette

~ Euthanasia ~

Feminaries

Flatulate

~ Flexible ~

Fur Baby

~ Gehennah ~

Genetic Diversity

~ Get Rich Quick ~

~ Gigabytes ~

Giving

Midnight Grey Oregon Beach

Mind and Heart

Monotonous

Motorcycle

Grandma

Hands

Hedonism

Hedonistic

~ Her Purse ~

Homeless

Hope

How Can You Know?

If

~ In the Garden ~

~ Intoxicated ~

It’s Your Heart

~ Intuition ~

Issues

~ Jarenga ~

Just a Drink

Just a Fad

Just a Stick

Just a Writer Not

Key

Kudos

~ Laizeh Faire ~

~ Let It Go ~

~ Liar-Pants on Fire ~

~ Life in the Fast Lane ~

Life is a Puzzle

~ Light Bulb Moment ~

Like a Sister

~ Lollipop Red ~

~ Love is the Strongest Glue in the World ~

~ Love Yourself ~

Magnetism

Mask

Meditation

Merit

~ Message - Massage ~

Messenger

~ Mental Symbiosis ~

~ Metamorphosis -

Ten Points to Healing Your Soul

~ Metaphor ~

~ Mental Chatter ~

Mia Culpa

~ Neanderthal ~

~ Need ~

~ Negativity ~

~ Not Good Enough ~

Now and Then

Obsequious

Ode to Friends Past

Ominous

~ On the Wing of a Prayer ~

One Step

Over-Indulgence

Oxymoron

Paradigm

~ Paradigm ~

~ Paradigm ~

Peripatetic Yet

~ Peripatetic ~

Playing Cards

Pollo Pollo Pollo

Power

~ Prayer Giving Thanks ~

~ Pretender ~

~ Pride and Superciliousness ~

~ Potential ~

Prevarication

Priority

Prodigy

Promise

~ Pseudonyms ~

~ Purses ~

~ Ragamuffin ~

~ Real Life Beginner ~

Really!

Real World

~ Reservations ~

~ Rest ~

Retort

~ Rotten Apples ~

Says Who?

~ Secracy ~

~ Self Esteem ~

Sense of Humor

Shells

~ Shooting Stick ~

Sisterhood

Sleep

Soft Touch

~ Solitaire ~

Solitude

Spiritual Sister

~ Soul Search ~

~ Split Personality ~

Stream of Consciousness

Stuff

Swing

Tea Party

~ Television ~

~ The Better Woman ~

The Eyes Have It

That Gate

The 3000 Austin Healey Roadster ~

The Balconey

The Call

The Eyes Have It Too

~ The Facade ~

The Good News

~ The Heart of Religion ~

~ The Hiking Boots ~

~ The Hope of Humanity ~

~ The Jade Necklace ~

The Mathematical Equation

The Path

The Moment

The Quiet Husband

The Small Black Notebook

The Supreme Intelligence

~ Threshold ~

~ Thumbs ~

Tickle Your Soul

Two Will Never Become One

Train

Transformed Wife

Travel

Tsunami

~ Twenty Four Seven ~

~ Unexpected ~

~ Unforgetable ~

~ Unrequited Love ~

Walls

~ Warp and Woof ~

~ Watch the Feather ~

Wha?

What the Hell?

~ Windows of the Soul ~

Why

Woman...

Worship

Yogi

Your Journey

Zees

Zen Beginning

Zen

~ Ziggaret Pyramid ~

A Motorcycle Story

Loosing The Colours

Beyond

A Liar

~ A Wave Of Possibility ~

Addictions

A Drink Comes In Handy

Agape

Alone On Christmas

Amazonian

A Mustard Seed Of Faith

Androgynous

~ A Perfect Friend ~

Apple

Are You Mars Or Venus?

~ A Special Assignment ~

A Special Turtle

At End Of Day

Atheist

Atmosphere

Attachment

Attachment Detachment

Awareness Of Destiny

~ A Womans Secret ~

Biblical Balance

Big Blue Eyes

Black, White, Red Or Yellow Male

Born A Woman

Butterflies

Cafes

Cat

Cell Phone

Christmas

~ Claustrophobia ~

Coming Out

Cork

Corporate

Cripple

Deja Vu

Delusions

Dishpan Hands

Doors

Dreadlocks

Dunamis

Eccentric Family

Ecstasy

Entrepreneur

Envelopes

Ethnicity

Ethos

Euphoria

Fantasy Ecstasy

For Real?

~ Friends ~

Genetics

God Has A Game

Grace

Hallucination

Her

Hermaphrodite

Hitchhiker

Hot Flash

In The Garden

In The Garden Twos

Its A Spin

Jesus Freak

Just Stay Home

Kwan Yin

Lend Me Your Ear

Life In The Fast Lane

Life Is Hair

Life Is Like The Rubber Band

Light

Loves Chase

Meditation

Men Are From Mars

~ Metamorphosis ~

Monologue

~ Motorcycle Babe ~

Motorcycle Dream

Mushrooms

Narcissism

Negative Must Go!

Noblesse Oblige

Now Is Just A Minute

Ode To A Husband

One Kind Of Reality

Out Of The Bottle

Phallo Logic

Piece De Resistance

Paranoia

Patience

Pink Motorcycle

Platonic

~ Playing Chess ~

Prayer

Pretentious

~ Psychotherapy ~

Purses

~ Ragamuffin ~

Relationship

Reservations

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Roots

Sacred

Sacred Space

Secret Role

Satanic Attractions

Scooter

She Is A Solitude

Shekinah

She Is Woman

Should

Soleume Writer

~ Solitude ~

Sorority

Spiritual Couch Potato

Stepping Stones

Stranger Friend

Such Is Life

Synonyms

The Crib

The Garden Of Your Mind

The Higher Life

The Important Games

The Jade Necklace

The One’s Perfection

The Pearl

The Spirit Of The Heart

The Silver Cross

The Venus Woman

The Word

The Yellow Eye

Touch Stones

Transparancy

Transport

Vegetarian

Very Up Close And Personal

Volunteer

What?

Woman

Write Your Book

You Love To Write

Zen Meditation

A Connundrum

Studying English literature occasionally

Spit out words that made students

Pronounce loudly all day in order to print into the mind;

Lips quietly moving as body moved along cafeteria line...

Memorizing new words repeatedly so that

As walking repeating new words quietly

Gives you the needed upper grades in class;

There were two words besides conundrum...

Paradigm was a new word popular with media

As well as enigma...words learned early used in college literature...

There is so-o-o much we didn’t know;

A little secret is that if you spit out a large word

When walking with a special person

Elicits laughter so will bond with becoming better friends

You try the moment laughter is needed to make friends

Some people warn of reputation you might get

But in college you can wear it on your tee shirt

"..Paradigm...conundrum..enigmatic...

Watch people smile at you!

Positive minds give hope...

A Cuss Word

She is...

A social outcast, a member of

No cast in India usually men of

Imoral habits or in social situation

One who is gossiped about

In social groups or gatherings

You hear pariah usually about

Prostitutes, kept women or very

Immoral men with strange sexual interests...

But a pariah can be those so called

Millennials that would rather study

Because they have a future in sports,

Music, dance, focus hiking...

Travel the world and hike mountains;

She does not find groupie essential to her life

Hard to make friends because of plans

To travel the world after grad from college

Writers like to use words to enhance

Their writing using large words...

Accronyms

Have noticed codes that prevail

When millennials converse with each other

As when you are at a chicken or taco quick service;

You feel surrounded by undercover gang members;

Their new speak is so-o-o coded

It leaves you dizzy trying to figure out

What sounds surrounds you

Sound as if aliens have landed...

Using initial letters of other words

As in ROFL...rolling on floor laughing"...

Now you know popular letters flying around;

When you see millennials waving hands around

Using initials shortened words

And you think it is coded

Can you imagine twenty more years

And passing new minds young poets and writers

New crisp acronyms flying around you

As though aliens or gangs with new speak

Because of computer tech language everyone uses...

Addiction 1

No-o-o not drugs, alcohol nor

Clothes, nor bars, movies

Not close friends, hiking, jogging

Not cell phone bods, nor

Groups that love to crawl the

Malls for specials then lunch...

Many males are known for their book library

Especially college grads that want to write their book

But after reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

Filled with philosophy and psychology

And extreme word description of

Personna involved in story

You know deep down in your heart

An unique experience for life

Must happen before you can write

The mature life experience opens

Your eyes as you reach back to your

Library for reference and

Your heart, mind and soul

Tells you everything will be

Allright as you occasionally

Duck into a church and reach out

In your relationship to God

Through Jesus Christ...

The most important addiction

To millions around the world

As missionaries travel to the

Darkness of obscure countries

Deep in Africa, Asia and Middle Eastern parts of the world-

Mother Theresa in Africa went down in history...

So can you if your addiction is

Important in the eyes of the world

As a book of a personal journey

Touches the hearts of students

Who will pick your book to study.

~ Addictions ~

I thank God my dad taught me

Early the good addictions

And bad addictions...

The bad of course land you in jail

Like taking what is not yours

Even if no one is looking

Like when you are in a store

The manager views the film after closing

So they can see the customers who are careful

Who stay a long time walking around,

And those customers who look around and

If no one is looking

Put candy small packs in purse-

I viewed such behavior once

Said nothing as I fear they may follow me out

And I fear for my life,

When you become a nark

The word gets around...

Smoking develops heart problems;

Quick sex spreads HIV and ghonorrhea;

Better for smart chics to wait;

It is not exciting unless your

Intimate partner is special;

That is why dildo are hard to find...

Even in your best friend’s apartment

I had a roommate once and she confessed....

She called it clean sex...

A Drink Comes in Handy

Our old house was not really that old

Neat sidewalks, cut lawn, tidy and

No trashy scraps of paper lying about

When dad was not having coffee at a cafe

A few blocks away with his buddies

Who also owned property and

You know hem men are as they

Talk about their land and employed

Men to care for mowing and to trash cans...

The mind wonders if he is planning

To buy another property or lot to build

Men like to talk about building seeing

The dream rise in his mind.

Have you a father you saw have dreams

And worked them over coffee or drinks with other men?

That is how some men get rich

With ideas from male friends over drink-

He sold property where eventually fair grounds were built!

A Higher Power

Many atheists will discuss this

As a myth until a occurance

Unexpected pushes your mind

To think and imagine believers

Have something to convince your

Senses you have not heard some

People’s miracles as reality-

A reality you may not yet reached

Because a busy day filled with

Thoughts of yesterdays and

Tommorrows you will do what

Is at the bottom of your list...

Like Walt Whitman alone on his farm

Or May Sarton alone at home

In a small New England community

Your heart, soul and mind

Pushes you to pick up pen

And blank sheet of paper...

Yes God - Thank you for guidance!

A Longing for Milk

Begins when you are just a new born babe

All across the world even in the most

Impoverished parts of the world

And when you no longer suck the breast

Within our souls a kind of hunger lingers

Men go out with their spears in the jungle

Wild parts of the world men feel a need to hunt

While women who cannot bear children

Help those who have more than they can handle....

Travel to other primitive parts of the world

Community houses and tents women

Feed and play in a commune village....

Womens milk is there for small child in need

Therefore women must remember why

God put them here....

God is Love....

The parts of the world where there are no

Clinics, buildings, homes, water, the

Saying: "...Love thy neighbor...in order to survive.....

Prayer morning...day...night....

~ A Martini ~

Anytime, anywhere...

Just to relax... you say;

No matter who you are meeting

Or the occasion

Or this may be your first drink

Just small short sips...

Slowly you feel anxieties

Float away as you feel centered

As the smooth vodka insert

Itself into your various body parts...

Tiredness, fears, anxieties

Float away as the chemistry

Does its work, so-o-o

Be careful you don’t become

Addicted to this drink...

Better a half glass of excellent red wine...

The effects are similar

Your tiredness of the day disappears!

Amazon

Think quietly alone of a future

Possibility that women can be the

Control factor of this world...

Planning deep in your soul an ideal

Universe non manipulative as men

Like to do in all facets of governing life...

Put the soft touch in all matters in

Political and religious matters

And watch the atmosphere become electric

As in Europe, South America, Middle East

The women behind men in control...

The female six foot tall with silk clothing

Know there are more important roles

Rather than caring for crying new borns

Try the roles available roles to fill...

One moment after a friend beat me at

Chess and I discovered she could not be beat

She felt like an amazon to me...

The amazons today can be seen on popular T.V.

And what about Pelasi in government?

A Pound at a Time

Yes you can!

If you have inherited the large

Body size of mom or dad

You can change that by