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    A Special Brew
    A Special Brew
    A Special Brew
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    A Special Brew

    By Zollie Allen

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    A SPECIAL BREW is a book of stories and ideas shared through poetry. It's a compilation of the best, the worst, the hopes, the dreams, the fantasies,

    the heartbreaks and in some cases the insanity that lurks in the mind of a simple but yet complicated man.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJERSEY MINUTE, LLC
    Release dateMay 1, 2022
    ISBN9780578266060
    A Special Brew
    Author

    Zollie Allen

    Zollie Allen is a simple yet complicated man.

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      Book preview

      A Special Brew - Zollie Allen

      A Special Brew

      Copyright May 2011

      ©Txu-1-749526

      A SPECIAL BREW – is a book of stories and ideas shared through poetry. It’s a compilation of the best, the worst, the hopes, the dreams, the fantasies, the heartbreaks and in some cases the insanity that lurks in the mind of a simple but yet complicated man.

      Cover image illustration by Gary Allen.

      ISBN: 978-0-578-26606-0

      Table of Contents

      Standing Tall

      Black Butterfly

      Land Of Despair

      I Saw the Storm

      On The Wrong Side of History

      History Came Too Fast

      Street Life

      Old Folks/Keepers of the Wisdom of Time

      A World without a King

      No Tears

      I’ve Done My Best

      Black Fists of Freedom

      The Crying Man

      Chasing Rainbows

      Ancient Faces

      No More Flowers

      Chocolate Soldiers

      Finales

      Dark Places

      The Days of My Life

      The Last Goodbye

      Christmas Candy

      A Word beyond Love

      The Face of Love

      Lightning Strikes

      Incomplete

      Hungry Heart

      Black Magic

      Relying On My Heart

      The House Where Love Used to Dwell

      I Need a Word

      Pieces of a Dream

      The Day the Earth Stood Still

      Reality or Fantasy

      Never Had a Dream Come True

      At a Loss for Words

      The Kiss That Lasted

      Conditional Love

      Home

      I Forgot to Pray

      The Flower Garden

      Jesus Lives Here

      Why I Sing the Blues

      Welcome Home

      Splendor

      That Old Familiar Face

      Eternal Friendship

      His Grace

      Fifteen Minutes of Fame

      Superstar

      Hard Times

      The Storms of Life

      I Remember

      Visions

      Standing Tall

      I’m standing on the shoulders of every black man

      I’m reaching for the sky

      Their wisdom helps me understand

      Their history tells no lie.

      All of those that have gone before

      Generations of prejudice and abuse

      Their legacy I can’t ignore,

      And for complacency there’s no excuse.

      They gave me such a great foundation

      Slaves that toiled to set me free

      On their backs they built this nation,

      And carried it into the twenty first century.

      But in a world where nothing is given

      There’s no time to sit and grieve

      Thanks to God I’m strongly driven

      My dreams to achieve.

      Black Butterfly

      Beautiful Black Butterfly,

      Where oh where are you bound?

      Made with all the colors that heaven could supply

      Fragile and yet so profound.

      You’re nature’s curator in the gardens of beauty

      Laboring hour after hour,

      And bound by your sense of duty

      You must care for every flower.

      Precious is the world that you live in

      A place where the eyes delight

      Vanishing each day at evening,

      And reappearing at mornings light.

      But a part of you has been stolen,

      And life is passing you by

      The wings of your soul, although golden

      Have never touched the sky.

      You’ve never known tenderness,

      Or felt the excitement of romance

      You’ve never experienced a first kiss,

      Or taken the time to dance.

      You’ve never heard a romantic love song,

      And felt a curious thrill

      You’ve never seen what the endless fathoms,

      Below the oceans reveal.

      You’ve never stood on a mountain top

      That was white and covered with snow,

      Or seen the valleys that time forgot

      Where flowers never grow.

      You’ve never gazed upon a moonlit sky,

      And been drawn by its tempting allure,

      Or felt

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