Viva La Yves: Sensual Brain Food and Experiences in Thought

By Janna Yves

Viva La Yves offers sensual brain food, personal accounts, and self-empowerment. Author Janna Yves seeks to touch your mind with poems, short narratives, and insightful quotes that align with patterns in her own life. Through these explorations, hidden wounds can be healed and blossom into a powerful new force of your own making. Immerse yourself in writings that have created a narrative of feminine livelihood brought to life through fantasy, reality, and extended metaphors. Including space to record your own thoughts and feelings, this collection is designed to motivate you to have healthy discussions and to give you permission to change, grow, and heal.

This poetry collection explores the deep, freeing thoughts of a young woman who broke a mold in her community over years of growth from backlash, hidden traumas, and her coming of age.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Jun 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665720823

Janna Yves

Janna Yves grew up with a supportive family in a large community-based town but was also sheltered around the same people. She attended the same school until high school, which opened up that world to new life situations. However, at the age of 12, the rise of social media and technology transformed her life and the lives of the generations born after 1996. In high school, she became an event promoter, concert enthusiast and enjoyed observing life from the outside. She still maintained social appearances, leadership positions and had decent grades. Her college years consisted of living a mature adult life while taking courses. Currently, she is a fine art muse and avid role model in all her communities. She lives by the motto, "No one is you, and that is your power."

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ISBN: 978-1-6657-2081-6 (sc)

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Archway Publishing rev. date: 06/22/2022

Contents

Faith

Family

Feeling

Fantasy

Fulfillment

Freedom

Food for Thought

To my Mimi & Dandy,

Mom & Dad,

#2 & #3

I will continue on.

I will journal.

I will be creative

I will love.

- #1

To you, my readers

Please continue on.

Please journal.

Please create.

Please love.

And love the skin you’re in.

- J.Y.

Faith

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Roulette

I’ve lived in every decade—

The music,

The experiences,

The colors,

The friendships,

Birth,

Coming of age,

Marriage,

Death.

You see black and white,

And I see burgundy and chartreuse.

I see hues beyond the elements

That remind me of a day,

That remind me of a time.

You feel pain;

I feel desire.

The forces that be

Push me

To live life to the fullest

Even when I’ve felt

That I’ve lived a full life.

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Madame & Yves

Everlasting intelligence

Made her a sexual seductress.

Because society was taught

The Malus,

Yves ate,

Was from the

Tree of Knowledge.

And by doing so,

She seduced and created

The loss of innocence

For all mankind.

Questioning authority

In today’s world,

A deviant

Defying the public,

A contaminant.

Take as you will;

Interpret as your own.

Judgement Day is coming,

And it’s been coming

Since the beginning

Of time.

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Leap of Passion

Wrap yourself in blue velvet,

Feel something different,

Heighten your emotions,

Cry,

Feel powerful,

Question everything.

You deserve the

Answers that you

Seek.

Take a breath,

Open your skull,

And caress the logic

Behind your eyes.

Get to a place

Where you sense

The impression of

Immorality on your tongue.

Nirvana is yours.

Give yourself time.

Be mindful and delicate,

Light like a feather.

Perform acts of kindness;

Rekindle your passion.

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Space Cake for Soul

My soul adventures through space,

Random treasures and unexpected

Landmarks.

Do you ever stop

To explore the world around you?

I did, and I do.

I have an intellectual soul

Inside me.

I am a walking vessel.

Alive,

My soul burns

Constantly.

We must find beauty

In our behaviors.

A career life isn’t enough;

Your inner ego, too, craves

The unexpected.

There are no detours.

Feed your neshamah elated madness

Tonight.

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The Act

Guru,

Encyclopedia,

Knowledge is power,

All you need is love—

I’m tired.

Sometimes I want to turn off the thoughts and listen to the air-conditioning unit’s hum,

Being so aware

And not reaching a level

Of newness.

Stuck—

Writer’s block.

Challenge me, please.

Sometimes I feel like Buddha

And Marilyn Monroe’s

Love child,

Humble

And confident.

And some days

I am just me,

Trying to survive.

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