Love and Truth are Always Free

By Dorkas De Veaux

My book is not a long book , but hopefully it is a good book. A book you may want to read again and again. A book that you will recommend to your family and friends. A book that will remain in your heart for years to come. Thank You for choosing my book, " Love and Truth are Always Free" to become a part of your library. I am humbled.
Dorkas De Veaux

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667839462

Book preview

Title

***To the reader, I would like to Thank You for taking an interest in reading my book of poetry. In some of my poems, you will find that I have addressed controversial subjects. My poems fall upon the genre of an eclectic writing style. I have employed a broad base of writing styles to accomplish my goal. This collection of my best works was written for the sheer enjoyment of reading.

Thank You. Dorkas De Veaux

Copyright © 2021 Dorkas De Veaux

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

ISBN: 978-1-09837-904-9

eISBN: 978-1-6678394-6-2

Preface

Before you read this book, there is something interesting I want you to know about me. I am dyslexic. Yes, dyslexic! I started writing the alphabet at approximately age 4. Like many preschoolers, I wrote my letters backwards. Let me rephrase that statement. Many preschoolers just learning to write will inadvertently write a letter or two backwards. I wrote EVERY letter in the alphabet backwards. Sometimes I substituted particular letters with what would be described as doodling. Well, it’s how I saw it, and I thought it was how everyone else saw it. By the time I got to 1st grade, my teacher told my mother that I would grow out of it. By 2nd grade, my mother and my teacher became very concerned. I was a spelling champion as long as I could spell the word out loud. When it came time to write the word, I had my own alphabet system. When I explained it to my teacher she found that all of my words were spelled correctly. I usually got a perfect score on my spelling test (once the teacher deciphered my hieroglyphs,) and my comprehension was not impaired. Thereafter, I was frequently reminded and coached to turn my letters around and not to use doodles in place of letters. It was harder to do than my mother and my teachers realized. Writing letters and words the way they wanted me to do it looked like doodles to me! After a lot of practice and effort, I became successful. Surely, my mother and my teachers thought that I had finally conquered my foe. I did not, but I was clever enough to make them think so. Although I was never formally diagnosed, I was/am still very much dyslexic with a touch of dysgraphia and retro-dysgraphia!

I discovered my passion for writing in the 3rd grade. Mrs. Thomas, (my teacher) knew about my little problem, and she made me captain of the Reading Club. As long as I didn’t have to read out loud, I was fine. By 5th grade I was writing songs and I wrote a play (none of which ever came to fruition). LOL! Dyslexia was my own little secret. Because of Mrs. Thomas, I kept reading. She told me to read every chance that I could. So, I did! I began to read everything that I could get my hands on. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, instruction manuals, recipes, you name it, I read it! I was determined to slay my secret monster. Little did I realize that, while my dyslexia barely improved, my knowledge base soared. As a matter of fact, I excelled in all of my classes. As long as the teacher did not ask me to read out loud, I was cool. It was my only dread. Unfortunately, I couldn’t always dodge that bullet. When I was called to read out loud, I would make funny sounds and funny faces, in hopes that the class and the teacher would be distracted from my inability to read fluidly. For the most part it worked! While the teacher was annoyed, I was a big hit with my classmates.

By 5th grade I figured out a way to hide my secret "forever". I decided to teach myself to memorize paragraphs of stories. I became good at the memory game, memorizing entire stories that I was charged to read. I prepared myself for the inevitable (being called on to stand up and read out loud). Dorkas, please stand up and read the paragraph on page #4. I would hold the book up and pretend to read the page but in actuality I had