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    3 Poetry Books in 1, Vol III: Virtue, the Unbeloved, We Only Need
    3 Poetry Books in 1, Vol III: Virtue, the Unbeloved, We Only Need
    3 Poetry Books in 1, Vol III: Virtue, the Unbeloved, We Only Need
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    3 Poetry Books in 1, Vol III: Virtue, the Unbeloved, We Only Need

    By Ynez Fernandez-Reyes

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    The poems in this compilation were written around 2000. It was a hard time for me because I lost my chance to have the education I was striving for, and because I lost my HUD housing voucher and was homeless. I got it back (after 14 years) in 2001. Since then, I've been able to keep a one bedroom apt. I bought a used computor and new printer and started my Banana Patch Fantasy Productions website. Life is good...

    I don't want to tell you how I've suffered etc. It can all be good if we let it be. An artist needs fuel, so all that stuff that broke my heart and crushed my hope to be somebody significant in this world....forced me to control my distemper and create music, poetry, puppets, stories, many wonderful things. The pain birthed inspiration and production. That's what the poems mean to me. But I don't know how to describe what brought me to the edge of the abyss, so I could write the poems....anyway...no one wants to hear it. So that is the long and short of it.....to describe the poems any more than that would be to take away mystery of discovering what they could mean to you.
    In turning to the Great Spirits of Antiquity and ancestors unknown to me whom I reach out to....I have survived and grown a soul...and created a body of work that greatly relieves me, and that all admire. In one of the poems in this compilation, I remark: "A life well lived is like a bell that rings forever; the sound encrypted in our collective soul, enriching Humanity's potential" So in that heartset, I offer these poems to you and hope they touch you somewhere deep inside, and it is helpful to you in some way.
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    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 1, 2014
    ISBN9781483543888
    3 Poetry Books in 1, Vol III: Virtue, the Unbeloved, We Only Need

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      3 Poetry Books in 1, Vol III - Ynez Fernandez-Reyes

      ISBN: 9781483543888

      This is the 5th and last eBook in this series

      of poems called My Life in Poems and

      is the 3rd compilation of the 3 Poetry Books in 1,

      (vol I, Il, & III). There are 12 little books in all.

      The poems in this compilation, are the most recent

      poems, going back to 1999.

      I could have called the series Pep Talks to Myself.

      I call on Ancestral Grandmothers to advize and protect

      me on my journey here. They have alot to say, and their

      words, are the words of my poems. I have to wait until

      I'm motivated to write. So I write what comes out.

      I try to be positive. Sometimes I admit I'm wounded.

      Expressing raw feelings allows me to survive the pain and confusion of the moment.

      I love to recite dramatically.

      If you go to my website, you'll find my

      books of poetry on the Chameleon link.

      Above the title of each poem (left margin), is a link

      to the audio track I made for each poem

      in the books published there.

      You can also check out the watercolors etc.

      Book #1: VIRTUE

      c 2000 yfr

      a book of poetry & watercolors

      by ynez fernandez-reyes

      BANANA PATCH FANTASY PRODUCTIONS

      www.bpfprod.net/

      INDEX

      Front

      Cover: WATERCOLOR: Big Fish in Sky w/Crab

      Title Page

      Index

      Virtue

      Consciousness Unending, IV

      Life's About You....

      We Grow the Fruit....

      In This Valley

      WATERCOLOR: Sanctuary, Kanaha Beach Park, Kahului, Maui, Hawaii 1998

      How Did They Deceive Me?

      Disenchanted

      The Deafening

      God Sees.....

      "VIRTUE''

      How can the clinging fruit turn sweet,

      Upon the withered bough?

      How can this puny

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