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    Poetic Eyez
    Poetic Eyez
    Poetic Eyez
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    Poetic Eyez

    By Raymond A. Hiraldo

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    This book of poetry is inspired by the many emotions and thoughts we fail to express. It will definitely allow you to relate with its contents so that you can understand that you are not alone with the sometimes crazy ways your heart and mind operate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMar 5, 2010
    ISBN9781426963285
    Poetic Eyez
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    Raymond A. Hiraldo

    As a young boy growing up in a pretty harsh New York area that is known as, "Washington Heights" I always had a knack for writing ludicrous stories. When I was in the fifth grade in elementary school I wrote a story that was almost published in the school paper. Due to the lack of school funds that story was never published. Over the course of a few years I lost that story. It was hand written and computers were not as advanced then as they are now. My knowledge of them was simply only about video games at the time. My inner writer was gone for a few years until it was reawakened in high school. Again, I wrote a story that basically floored one of my English teachers. I also created book reports and other stories that she thought were downright amazing. I never gave it all another thought as I just felt like it was all school work. However, a lot of things changed once I started college. It was in college that I was exposed to energy that was so negative and overwhelming. I was on the brink of committing suicide as I felt that it was too much to bare. Luckily for me, that energy awakened a tremendous sleeping writer/poet instead of it making me kill myself. I then began writing poems and attending open mic readings in many places around New York. I was even invited to be a guest speaker at a former English teacher's poetry class. Lots of audiences showed me that my poetry was indeed very unique. It was the many people asking me if I had a book that led me to chase the goal of publishing. One of my very gifted and talented English teachers even told me, "The poetry from everyone else seems to sound like a Hallmark card, but yours are very different." I soon found out just how different they really were. I have sensed that the emotion flowing through my many poems are found to be interesting and entertaining to many people. It is the voice of the people who have asked me to publish that I am heeding with this book. It is the energy of: those who have past away who failed to tell a loved one their final words, the women who wished to get specific points across, the essence of the male spirit, the passion of love/romance, and the divine privilege of life from God that enabled me to channel it all through myself and into words. With all that being said, I invite you to take a look into a world seen and described through my "poetic eyez."

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      Poetic Eyez - Raymond A. Hiraldo

      © Copyright 2011 Raymond A. Hiraldo.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      isbn: 978-1-4269-2794-2 (sc)

      isbn: 978-1-4269-6328-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010902140

      Trafford rev. 04/15/2011

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      North America & international

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      phone: 250 383 6864 fax: 812 355 4082

      Notes

      Table of Contents

      From The Author

      42nd Street

      A Girl’s Worst Fear

      A New Poet From My Death

      A Request To God

      A Typical Day

      Artificial Intelligence

      Beauty With A Beast

      Because We Are Women

      Being Remembered

      Birth Rights

      Bitter Women

      Chasing Women

      Childhood Days

      Closed Up Chapter

      College

      Conscious Mind

      Cupid’s Rules

      Dear Self

      Depression

      Divine Privilege

      Dog

      Employing Savage

      Feelings Of The Living Earth

      Finally With One Girl

      First Love

      Gay Night

      God’s Remedy Towards An Enemy

      Hang On To God

      Happening In The World

      Hoodlums & Delinquents

      Horizon

      I Am

      I Know

      In My Dreams

      Inspire

      Internet Dating

      Knowing If He Loves You

      Lack Of Confidence

      LIFE

      Looking For A Ghost

      Love Takes A Break

      Love Waits For Too Much Time

      Make Love To Me

      Manhood

      Mass Attractsportation

      Me And The Little Voice

      Modern Day Slave

      Moments Later

      Move On

      Musician

      My D.R. (Dee Are)

      My High School Crush

      My Loving Home

      My Mother’s Day

      My Shallow Mind

      My Style

      Never Knowing

      New Year Resolutions

      Nice

      No One Knows When They Die

      One Night Stand

      Our Savior

      Parking Attendant

      Plans

      Plus Sized Love

      Poetic Eyez

      Questioning Thoughts About Pretty Girls

      Rags To Riches

      Reasons Why Some Words Repeat In Poetry

      Soldier

      Strangers

      Still

      Summer Thoughts

      That Ugly Girl

      The Blackout

      The Bond Of Our Love

      The Dark Poet

      The Driving Machines Behind A Man

      The Girl I Need

      The Illness

      The Life Of A Poem

      The Love I Feel

      The Man From Her Dreams

      The New Life

      The Nissan Maxima

      The Poem Speaks

      The Strength For Him From Her

      These Women

      Thinking About Death

      Thought She Was Reserved

      Thug

      Thursday, June 17th, 2004

      To Every Poet His Or Her Own

      To My School Teachers

      To The Hating Critics

      To The Reader \

      Today’s Job Market

      U.S. Armed Forces

      What Will Truly Become Of Me?

      Why I Show My Love

      Writer’s Block

      Your Male

      Quotes

      Acknowledgements

      From The Author

      Before I begin, I really want to take this opportunity to thank God for allowing me to accomplish such a feat like the publication of this book. This proves that we are not in total control of our lives because I never in my wildest dreams intended on putting a book together.

      My full name is Raymond Alexander Hiraldo. I was born of Cuban/Dominican parents but I am more in touch with my Dominican side as I haven’t met anyone from the Cuban side yet. I was born in the state of New York at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital on June 18th, 1977. I was raised in an area known as, Washington Heights. While living in this area I was exposed to an uncensored life. I always saw shoot outs, gang brawls, drug busts, and a whole lot of other messes. I chose to walk on a very straight line at a young age and therefore isolated myself from people who turned out to be bad influences.

      The writings in this book of poetry were planted as seeds in my times of youth as they waited until I was ready and able to make them sprout. The title, Poetic Eyez is intentionally spelled with the letter z at the end of the word eyez because it symbolizes that I do not side with conformity. I also believe that poets are exempt from any simple punctuation rules within writing. Poetry comes from a very open and vulnerable place in the writer, and so, he or she writes based on that feeling. In other words, whatever makes YOU feel good.

      I feel cursed and blessed at the same time to be able to write the way I do. I get extremely emotional when I write and sometimes that doesn’t hold very well with me. However, I think it is amazing on how I can tune into certain kinds of energy floating all around us. It is this energy that has allowed me to place myself in the shoes of so many different individuals accurately. So many people have asked me how is it that I could do that but it is just something I really can’t totally explain. I have placed myself in the perspectives of women, other men, and even those who have been incarcerated. All this is so interesting to me because: I am not a woman, I am only myself, and I have never been incarcerated. I find it to be truly amazing on how this creative energy seeks out & channels itself through certain individuals.

      So, what can this book do for you? Well, nothing really. But the better question to ask is, What can this book’s contents do for you? AH! Now that is different! I am very sure that there will be at least one poem, stanza, or line that will totally relate with an occurrence or situation in your life either in the past, present, and even future. Every person is always looking for that song, book or movie that can best tell their story and thus allow them to establish a type of connection with it. I am sure that you will carefully consider my point of view in a lot of areas within life. I am certain that you will find out that you are truly not alone with the many ways your feelings and thoughts function.

      On a final note, I really want to thank you, the reader, for giving my poetry a chance, and a little bit of your time.

      42nd Street

      Beautiful women on expensive high heels

      The most prestigious cars with shiny wheels

      That’s 42nd Street

      Bright lights and award winning plays

      Huge signs with overlays

      That’s 42nd Street

      Every kind of culture found in a crowd

      Even the most experienced tourist getting wowed

      That’s 42nd Street

      Minority individuals working with callused hands

      Flyers with words written in a font called, Comic sans

      That’s 42nd Street

      It is simple but yet perplexes

      With shops of gifts and triple X’s

      That’s 42nd Street

      If this area died the world would slow down to a crawl

      But that is the price to pay for being the center of it all

      That’s 42nd Street!

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      A Girl’s Worst Fear

      She looked into his eyes each night

      He made the stars shine much more

      bright She thought she had a true love

      That was sent to her from heaven above

      He told her he wanted her hand in marriage

      And that he longed to be pushing their baby’s carriage

      But her experience is a girl’s worst fear

      To lose everything that she holds dear

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      All he wanted was to get her in bed

      And he felt pleasure while her body bled

      He was only after her virginity

      Something that symbolizes the utmost purity

      She went through many months of pain

      And his genital parts she wanted to maim

      She went to him and asked him, Why?

      He said, I wanted to show my friends I’m sly

      She looked at him and her pain increased

      She wanted to punch his face and break his teeth

      With tears in her eyes she turned and ran

      She felt ashamed to be seen with that dirty man

      For he was a player by night AND at day

      Like a lone wolf out hunting for its prey

      She was a victim of what all girls seek

      And now she fears men who look too sexy and sleek

      She started to feel like an old used coat

      When she thought about how much that man would gloat

      She now knows the inevitable pain that love can sometimes bring

      She gave him everything because he promised her a ring

      And what exactly is a girl’s worst fear?

      To have her loving heart killed, like a free wild deer

      A New Poet From My Death

      Death will come for me one day, and override the luck of any four leaf clover

      Extinguishing my poetic fire as it says that my time here is done and over

      Judging by my current social status I doubt that many people will mourn

      But the one thing I can be happy about is that new poets will be born

      Some might go to visit my tomb to pay their final respects

      And hopefully exit the graveyard with poetic lasting effects

      I predict however that one new and unknown poet will be forced to emerge

      And happily take over my writing style with my same kind of rhyming urge

      So please, don’t grieve for me new poet, for I was just a bridge to energy channels

      The same energy will now seek you to turn your simple words into control panels

      But there are things I want to say to you new poet, as I follow you in shadows

      This energy will enable you to feel

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