Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday: A Poetry Collection
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Her poetry gives a view into her experiences covering a wide range of emotionslaughter, tears, triumph, and disappointmentand exploring the past, the present, and the future. Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday portrays experiences inspiring yet heartfelt sentiments that are universal to human existence.
Reflections
Through the mirrors of my mind
Day after day
I see reflections of life itself
Reflections of all the days of old
I can see it as if it were today
When I was a slave and you
Were the boss
Yes, I must agree that times
Have changed but yet I am not free
It seems you still have a bond over me
Through the mirrors of my mind
As my heart pound
I see reflections of life today
Reflections of what life should be
Reflections of what it means to me
Nickadia Daniels
With a voice seasoned in the cotton fields of East Texas, Nickadia Daniels brings more than five decades of poetry to a new generation of readers. She is a mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother, and friend who uses all of her experiences to provide a glimpse of life through her eyes. She currently lives in California.
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Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday - Nickadia Daniels
© Copyright 2013 Nickadia Daniels.
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Contents
Dedications
Willie D
While You’re yet Alive
A Young Man Dies
Forever
Grandmother
Thank You Mom
Take Time
A Step Between
Though We Quarrel
FAMILY
Quilt Pieces
When You Were Mother
What is a Man?
Walk in Our Steps
Too Large to Say I’m Sorry
Memories
HERITAGE
Nat, Harriett, Sojourner, Malcolm and Martin
Please Set Me Free
Black Man
Freedom
Happy
Reflections
Relationships
You Don’t Know Me
Strangers when We Met
Our Love Affair
Your Eyes Spoke
Wrap Me in Your Strength
My Lady—My Man
Do Not Leave Me
The Redwoods Bring Memories
Because I Thought You Were My Friend
I Dare Not
Am I Missing You, You Say
We Are One
Understand
I Love You, Good-Bye
Pressed Between the Pages of My Mind
You Are Married
No Communication
Inspirations
What is Christmas?
What Shall I Do?
Goodbye Old Year Hello New
What Was in that Cup?
No Room
Laid in a Manger
Society/Social Concerns
You’ve Taken All of Me
Twenty-Two is a Good Age
Nine-Eleven
Cries of the Young
Had I By Chance
Change
Silent Lips
Man Leave Me Be
Was Home So Bad?
It’s Not Time For Me
No Man Heard My Cry
SELF-ESTEEM
Individual Unique Me and You
It’s Hard to Know
Perfect
You Don’t Scare Me
RANDOM THOUGHTS
Memories of Yesteryears
Dawn a New Day
Thoughts
Death
What Has Become of the Men of Our Ages?
Just a Simpleton
Sympathy
Yesterday
If I Give Myself
Just An Ordinary Day
I Heard An Owl Call My Name
No One Never Cared About Me
Fathers Are
Laughter is Not For Me
Doubt
Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday
This book of poetry is dedicated to the memory of my mother,
Willie Dell Williams, a poet herself; but never published.
Dedications
Willie D
June 30, 1905, she came to life.
April 8, 1984, she succumbed to death.
The years between she became
Willie D by name.
Who was she?
First, a child raised up alone.
No sister or brother
just she alone.
Parents to care for her—
Oh, that was sure
and they shed their love
for her year by year.
Now, grown up
she became a mother
giving birth at first
to one lone daughter.
As the years passed,
she mothered others
fourteen the total
four preceded her in death.
Some years between
the first four or five
she sat by her own mother’s side
as Christ came to call her home.
Just as the last of her children were born
a daughter made her a new grandmother.
The years passed on and
she made it through her fears.
Praying each day,
Lord help my tears.
A mother and now a grandmother too,
Willie D also took charge of that task.
She cooked, she cleaned,
she made her house a home.
People came from miles
to eat from her table.
She gave of her life, she gave of her love
Willie D, she gave of whatever
she was.
Fortune and fame she never proclaimed.
Yet Willie D was of the talented sort.
A poet, never printed.
A seamstress never discovered.
Willie D, it was said,
could do anything.
Just as everyone else,
Willie D was sent by God
to perform a special task
that of being our blessed mother.
While You’re yet Alive
While you’re yet alive,
I will do all that I can do.
I will send you flowers
and run your errands.
I will call you on the phone
and we can talk for hours.
There isn’t anything that
I will not do for you,
while you’re yet alive.
I don’t know what will happen
when you are gone;
but I know that nothing I do
will bring you back
to this particular home.
That is why, on this day,
I attest that I will do
all I can for you,
while you’re yet alive.
Why should I give you flowers
when you’re gone?
You won’t know they are there.
You can’t hold them in your arms
and smell the sweet fragrance
of their bouquet.
That is the reason why
I will send you flowers
while you’re yet alive.
I will cry with you
over the