Whisper Is a Shout

By Ernestine Vaughn

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669869023

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Copyright © 2023 by Ernestine Vaughn.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Rev. date: 02/28/2023

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Preface

A Whisper Is A Shout

Lookin’ For Comfort

Love Is

Black People Love So Hard

My Mama

This Little Old Lady

Open At Your Own Risk

Fashionable Me

Change

Black President

Black Got Better November 4, 2008

Do You Need A Friend?

The Truth About Love Is:

Winter Of Life

New Phase

Keeping It 100

Destination

Black Pride

Pain

Seasons Of Life

Black Men And Boys

Snow Job

Inside

Mystery To Me

My Tears

Breakthrough

Your Love

Those Eyes

Let’s Think

Windy City Blues (Day Labor)

Groovin’

Heart Condition

Eyes Don’t Lie

Malcolm X

Truth

Blue Black Blues

Infatuation

The Last Dance

Gettin’ Myself Togetha’

Ain’t Goin’ To Love No More

Got The Blues

My Way

Girl-Girl

Time

Dream Come True

New Beginning

Too Cold

Caught Up

Little Down But Not Out

Stop

No Vacancys

Clean Sweep

Ready Man

Bad Case Of The Blues

I See You

Love Supreme

Year 2000

Silent Days, Silent Nights

Days Gone By

Past, Near Past And Present Souls

Black Woman

Love Supreme

That’s The Way It Is

Leaving

Stand Up For Us

Sister Girl

Muhammad Ali

The Ride

Joshua And Claire

Fire In His Eyes (Charles E. Shaw)

Love Bank

So-So Good

Black Diamond

Change Of Heart

Stop Look Listen

Tell Me Have You Heard?

Gone, My Baby Is Gone

Letter To Martin

Message To The Black Man

To Terry And Nicole

Family

Mother, Ma, Madear, Mom, Mommy

Respect

We Got A Love Just Like That

Unspoken Words

When I Hear My Mama Call

Good Times

You Do This To Me

Attention You

No Can Do

Sky Is Cryin’

Got The Blues Honey

Wonder Woman Don’t Live Here Any More

Lonely

Day Of Truth

Perfect World

Ooooh So Good

Martin We Love You

Train Wreck

Open Up Your Heart

On Being Cool

Love Is

Racism

Ode To Michael Jackson

Safe Keepin’

Crack Cocaine

Boo Why-Why Boo

Cocaine

Day Of Truth

It Took 60 Years To Finally Be Set Free!!!!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to thank God for allowing me to put pen to paper express myself and share my thoughts with others.

Thanks go to my mother and father for blessing me with a wonderful childhood filled with love, joy, and plenty of good memories.

Thank you to the many people that God sent my way who also helped to make me who I am today.

PREFACE

This book of poems has been in the making for many years. At a very young age I found that I loved words and the magic that they bring. I spent lots of time reading while being carried away to unknown places with authors whose books I couldn’t put down. I would stay up to wee hours with my young self under my covers head and all with a flashlight. My mother would come to my room and tell me to put the book down there’s school tomorrow. The grownups would give me books and magazines to read all the time. Early on I decided I wanted to write a book of poems to share with others. This book has been written from my heart to your heart. I hope to be able to open up someone’s heart and mind and put a smile on someone’s face then my job is done. I want to bring relief to someone in distress or in a bad place. My hope is that my poems will someday be read in classrooms at all levels.

A WHISPER IS A SHOUT

WHEN YOU SHOUT I CAN’T HEAR YOU, MY BRAIN MELTS

MY EARS IMMEDIATELY TURN TO STONE

ARE YOU AFRAID I WON’T HEAR YOU IF YOU ARE NOT SHOUTING?

A WHISPER IS A SHOUT

YOU HAVE MY FULL ATTENTION EVEN WHEN WE ARE MILES APART

I HEAR YOUR HEART BEAT, I HEAR YOUR COOL SWEET BREATH WHISPER IN MY EAR

DON’T YOU KNOW THAT A WHISPER IS A SHOUT?

WHEN YOU ARE SHOUTING IT ALWAYS FLIP FLOPS MY HEART, CAUSES ME TO THINK YOU ARE ANGRY ALTHOUGH YOU TELL ME YOU’RE NOT

THE LOUDER YOU GET THE MORE I CAN’T HEAR YOU

YOUR SMOOTH REFRESHING WHISPER GETS MY ATTENTION RIGHT AWAY

WHEN YOU WHISPER IN THE DARK I HEAR THE SWEET MELODY OF YOUR EVERY THOUGHT

I TOUCH YOUR LIPS WITH MINE AND I SEE MUSIC NOTES AND BECOME COMPLETELY YOURS

A WHISPER IS A SHOUT............

LOOKIN’ FOR COMFORT

I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN

HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN

YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD

I FEEL YOU

I’M WITH YOU ALL THE WAY

I GET YOU

WE’RE ON THE SAME PAGE

YOU RIGHT ABOUT IT.

YOU HAVE MY SYMPATHY- WRONG THING TO SAY, STILL I DESIRE FOR YOU TO REALLY HEAR ME

CALL ME IF YOU NEED ME, YOU GOT MY TELEPHONE NUMBER!!

I NEED YOU NOW

WHY WONT YOU DO WHAT YOU CAN TODAY?

I’M HERE FOR YOU-WHAT’S THAT LOOK OF SORROW?

PLEASE DON’T PITY ME, I WANT TO STAY AWAY FROM A PITY PARTY!

POOR YOU IS ALL I SEE IN YOUR EYES.

I UNDERSTAND-AS YOU TURN AND WALK AWAY, I SEE YOUR BACK AND IT’S THE SAME AS LOOKING AT YOUR FACE. I KNOW YOU WONT COME AGAIN OR CALL TO WISH ME WELL!!!

I MUST REMEMBER THAT TRUE ADVICE IS WITHIN ME.............TODAY AND ALWAYS...........

LOVE IS

EARLY MORNING SPRING DAY, AFTER A NIGHT RAIN.

THE SMELL OF WET GRASS AND THE WAY IT GLISTENS WHEN THE SUN COMES OUT.

LIKE WHEN THE OLD YEAR IS ON THE WAY OUT AND YOU WELCOME IN THE NEW WITH YOUR LOVED ONES.

A SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY, THAT YOU WERE TRULY SURPRISED