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    Until My Heart's Content: Poems on Love, Loss, and Life
    Until My Heart's Content: Poems on Love, Loss, and Life
    Until My Heart's Content: Poems on Love, Loss, and Life
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    Until My Heart's Content: Poems on Love, Loss, and Life

    By Sherrie L. Engram

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    Until My Hearts Content is a brilliant collection of poetry that speaks to the generation of today as well as those yet to come. Each poem is as riveting and intoxicatingly thought provoking as the next. This diverse anthology of poems ranges from topics of love and romance, faith and self-discovery, to profound and philosophical ideals. All arranged in amazingly vivid, imaginative, powerful, and engaging verse. This dynamic and inspiring book of poetry has all the essentials to keep both your mind and heart content.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 5, 2009
    ISBN9781440125836
    Until My Heart's Content: Poems on Love, Loss, and Life
    Author

    Sherrie L. Engram

    In her first book of published poetry author Sherrie L. Engram outshines herself, in this beautifully complied collection of poems that shows her creativity and depth as a poet. Sherrie was born, raised, and educated in Florida. She is the daughter of a patient care provider and the youngest of four children whom descend from an Afro-Caribbean-American background. From an early age Sherrie showed remarkable promise in Literature and The Natural Sciences. She received countless awards and recognition throughout her academic career for her science abilities and literary achievements. In 2004 she was the recipient of the River Cities Gazette’s Outstanding English Student Award and was nominated as Miami Springs Senior High Sliver Knight in the English Category. In this extraordinary collection of poems Sherrie L. Engram is sure to content both the hearts of novice and seasoned poets alike.

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      Until My Heart's Content - Sherrie L. Engram

      Until My Heart’s Content

      Until My Heart’s Content

      Poems on Love, Loss, and Life

      Copyright © 2009, 2012 Sherrie L. Engram

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4401-2582-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4401-2583-6 (ebook)

      iUniverse rev. date: 6/5/2012

      Contents

      Dedication

      Foreword

      Tin Man

      Stolen Sands

      My World

      Eternal Sleep

      Dice

      Atlas

      Monsoon

      Science

      Change

      Until My Heart’s Content

      Energy

      Vessels of Honor

      Highlights

      Glad

      Decay

      Streets

      Organism

      The Pit

      Wild World

      Money

      African Cat

      Speech

      The End Is Near

      Victory March

      Duty

      The Plague

      Leech

      Visions of Love

      A Fine Line

      The Return

      From Miami with Love

      Queen

      The Skull

      Praise

      Rule

      Clouds

      Fawn

      Eternity

      Winning

      Miami Heat

      Sixteen Candles

      Uno Deso

      (One Wish)

      Pillowcase

      Last Laugh

      Cry

      Puppet

      Sword in the Road

      Sunrise

      Throne of the Sea

      David

      Cancer

      Theory

      Infamous

      Hello

      Struggle

      My Way

      In Over My Head

      Permission

      My Belle

      Triggers

      Satisfaction

      The Rush

      Sprite

      Prices

      X-MAS

      Quiet Storm

      Measures

      Endless Engagement

      Dawn

      Detox

      Solitude

      Praising Man

      Someday

      Platinum Waters

      Fears

      Temple of My Mind

      Guard Your Tongue

      Sounds of Silence

      Four Walls

      My Mirror

      Outstanding

      To Dare

      Obsession

      Poison Beans

      Reaper

      Devotion

      You Belong To Me

      Love Sick

      Amore

      (Love)

      Pleasures

      Forevermore

      Twilight

      Passions

      Happiness

      Sea Maids

      Dance

      Tiger Lady

      Magic

      Summer Breeze

      Once in a Lifetime

      Imagination

      Family

      Somersaults

      Charity

      Trust

      And I Love Him

      Tropics

      Bull

      Roots

      Paradise

      Humble Eyes

      The Key

      Space Cowboy

      Down To Earth

      Dawn of Dreams

      Acknowledgment

      About the Author

      Until My Heart’s Content:

      Poems on Love, Loss, and Life

      By: Sherrie L. Engram

      Dedication

      It is my honor to dedicate this book of poetry to my Mother Roselin and Gifted Honors English Teacher Mrs. Kathleen Doyle, two extraordinary women who have shaped and guided my life unto this path.

      "One Dream can revolutionize a Nation,

      One Smile can outshine the Sun,

      And, one Hand can uplift the World."

      -Sherrie L. Engram

      Foreword

      From an early age I possessed a passion for literature and writing was one of my greatest joys. This book is a result of my devotion to poetic expression and represents a snapshot of some of my most prized writings. I hope that you enjoy this heartfelt book of poetry that has been crafted by life experiences that we all can relate to Love, Loss, Joy, and Faith. May you read until your heart is content.

      Tin Man

      The Tree of Life is withering,

      Its roots are now beneath a concrete sea,

      Endless fields and meadows of lush green,

      Are now the condos of New York City,

      The rays of the Sun were once worshipped,

      Now, that Power has passed to General Electric!

      Vogue says, Gray, is the New Green,

      But, that is merely the defense in the criminal case for the Machine;

      For the murder of Mother Earth,

      But, who will attend her funeral?

      When she goes,

      We all will go,

      With one fatal swift blow,

      Not with a bang remember,

      Just a whisper,

      Or, is it a whimper?

      The metal box,

      Has taken the soul of humanity,

      Has made it possible to communicate from China to the intergalactic galaxy,

      Yet, we are still left hollow inside,

      Because we all stay behind,

      A Micro-soft plasma window,

      Where our emotions are even more microscopic,

      Between the fields upon fields of fiber-optics!

      Give the Tin Man a Heart, Dorothy says,

      But, the question still remains,

      Will he take it from Man or Mother Nature instead?

      Stolen Sands

      The grains run through his hands,

      As he looks up at the morning sky,

      He curses it,

      And then releases a heavy sigh,

      How many times has he asked the world to come to an end?

      How long must he live in this perpetual agony?

      Each day only brings more pain, lashes, and defeat,

      How long will they continue to be the ignored majority?

      He was ripped from his throne,

      Then shipped millions of miles away from home,

      Dropped—

      Into a New World,

      On sands stolen from another man,

      Here he is told who to be,

      Given their name and forced fed a new identity.

      Beaten—

      Until black and bloody,

      Until being royalty, was merely a dream,

      A made up fantasy,

      Somewhere distant in the far-off sea,

      Of a land he once knew,

      A Land, of both Freedom and Truth!

      Now,

      He is lost among these Stolen Sands,

      A mere Puppet, no longer a man,

      He jumps,

      Before they pull the whip,

      His mind has been altered by Willy Lynch,

      He sings and dances on their every whim,

      All the while dying inside,

      Being stripped of both land and pride.

      My World

      The incandescent glow,

      That thee exudes all over,

      Has strengthened my love,

      Your purity has become the shining light in my life,

      No longer are my days cast into night,

      I was indeed blessed the day you were made my wife,

      But, your love pushes me to the brink of Death,

      I cannot stay in perpetual joy and bliss,

      While others are tortured with fires and whips.

      Oh, My Greatest Love,

      You are My World and more,

      No one, could ever come above,

      Your love beckons me,

      As the sand receives the sea,

      Yet, here I cannot stay,

      Do not cry My Dear,

      I must be cruel to be kind,

      You will always be in my heart and mind,

      But,

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