Urban Poetry
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Urban Poetry is a collection of 60 poems that express the fiery emotions ("A Waste of Time") and bittersweet opinions ("Rude People") of an African-Americanwoman who has experienced the extremes of ecstasy ("Man So Fine") and disappointments with men ("Fall is Not a Season"), along with the stress of living life in an urban city ("Metro Spit").
Author Carolyn Gibson's poetry further chroniclesher explorationof self-empowerment ("Mind Power"), and showsthe appreciation and admiration she has for the spiritual challenges between men and women ("Truth Freed Me").
Carolyn's observations of relationships, extreme behavior, and the constant struggle to maintain a sense of self have been chronicled in "Urban Poetry". From her "Once a Week Blues" to her "Celebration of Men", Carolyn's poems willstimulate and persuade you to readthis bookover and over again.
Carolyn Gibson
Registered Massgae Therapist, organic farmer, student and grower of herbs.Carolyn Gibson was born in Dallas Texas in 1951. Her love and study of herbs and organic farming began in the 1970's.She and her husband, Gerald, raise wheatgrass on their certified organic farm, Dogwood Gardens Organic Farm in Ben Wheeler Texas.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5There's not a lot to be said about this poetry collection. As professional as the work appears, the poems read more like first drafts of poems than professionally polished works ready for publication. Most of the poems here needed quite a bit more depth, and wouldn't stand up to poetry published by contemporary journals and/or presses--for very good reason. There's just not enough weight or care to them, and even without the press's emblem, it would be clear the work was self-published.I wouldn't recommend this book, and I'd only pick up another book by the author if it came from a traditional press and some of the poems had been published in respected journals, as the poems here clearly needed quite a bit more time and work than they received.
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Urban Poetry - Carolyn Gibson
Contents
Good-Byes
Good-Bye #1
Good-Bye #2
No Return
Good-Bye #3
Good-Bye #4
No Longer Stupid
Jumping Ship
I’m Free
A Waste of Time
Time to Go
Advantage Gone
Breaking-Up
Fall is Not a Season
De-Liberation
Deliverance
Break Up #1
Cut & Dry
Wake-Up Call
Needy
The Drying Well
Broken Expectations
Love
What I See
First Time Guilty
Love Is……….
Too Late Love
I’m So in Love with You
Vow of Renewal
Bitterness
Self Confession
Soul Stealer
Gratitude
The Next Time
Name Game
Without Love
Street Blues
Once a Week Blues
Gash Man Blues
Takes One to Know One
Metro Spit
Fat Chant
File It Under Heartbreak Blues
Boss Hell
Early Morning Blues
A Book’s New Cover
Walk Away Blues
Free to Be Me
Self-Realization
Mind Power
The Change
Liberation
Truth Freed Me
What It Is
Hodge-Podge
A Prayer for Strength
Tears
No Blasphemy Intended
Realization
Self-Destructive Behavior #1
Evil Triumphs Never
The Male Esteem
Man So Fine
Vanity is Man
Kept Man
I Dance
The Road for Me
In Celebration of Men
Also By Carolyn Gibson
Repairman Jones
Dedicated to all those poets still in the closet:
Take your words out of the night,
and shine them brightly in the light.
Good-Byes
Odes to the end of intimacy with a loved one.
Good-Bye #1
I wish I could say more,
Or at least explain why
It’s over between us.
Instead, all I have to offer
Is my regret that it didn’t work out
For me.
Good-Bye.
Good-Bye #2
I don’t have a real explanation
why I have to break up with you;
Only that no matter how hard I tried,
I couldn’t feel a connection,
the kind that I need to stay faithful
to one person.
So I have to say
Good-Bye.
No Return
Didn’t we break up last week?
Didn’t you tell me we were
no longer in harmony,
that you had moved on to a
Higher Plane of Reality
with another woman?
Didn’t you take all of your things last week?
Wasn’t that you explaining
why we were no good for each other,
as you packed everything you owned or bought,
including the small oscillating fan?
Wasn’t that you who broke my heart,
by telling me I would find someone else
More Compatible
than you?
That someday I would find the right man?
Well, I’m sorry your new love
didn’t work out,
but after our break-up, I was broken up,
until I realized that I hadn’t lost it all,
just because I lost a man.
I saw that the way you broke up with me
was not the act of a lover,
but the act of someone
who had been Playing Undercover.
So, in only one week, I am together again,
and our break-up is
just fine with me now.
Good-Bye.
©8/11/04
Good-Bye #3
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