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    Dazed
    Dazed
    Dazed
    Ebook90 pages42 minutes

    Dazed

    By Vanessa Morgan

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    DazeD is a collection of poems and short stories written by Vanessa Morgan and also features poems written by her son Malik. Malik was the focal point of Ms. Morgans first book, I Go Hard. In Dazed, Ms. Morgan allows us access to the experiences and life-lessons learned through these poems and short stories. DazeD reminds us that lifes storms are temporary and sometimes necessary in order for us to grow and become better individuals. And, after every storm there is a beautiful rainbow which colors and mends our hearts and eclipses our DazeD period. Ms. Morgan wants readers to follow her on this journey of love and realize the gift of understanding is all we need in this journey called life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateDec 29, 2011
    ISBN9781468506815
    Dazed
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    Vanessa Morgan

    Vanessa Morgan has lived in Worcestershire all her life and as a genealogist worked for 34 years researching family and local history in Worcestershire, Birmingham and Warwickshire. As a speaker she has a repertoire of talks, which she gives to different types of groups of all sizes – history societies, family history groups, Probus, WI etc. All her talks are on either historical topics or relate to family and local history. She has written numerous articles for genealogical magazines.

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      Book preview

      Dazed - Vanessa Morgan

      Contents

      Preface

      They are Just Words

      Words

      My Story

      Don’t Say That

      Louder than Words

      Teachers

      Teachers

      Ill Equipped

      She Said, He Said

      Too Hard

      Colors

      Colors of Annie Ruth

      Annie Ruth -

      Singing My Colors

      Annie Ruth’s- Colored Women

      When my Grandmother Died

      You Don’t Define Me

      Belinda Blue

      My Aunt

      Born Black

      Through the Years

      DazeD

      Destructive People

      Jim & Mary - 2003

      LC’s Juke Joint/Rib Shack –

      1970

      Addicted — 1986

      Faking It - 2011

      The Lottery - 2007

      Eight Years - 2007

      Growing Up Gay – 1973

      My Best Friend Dying - 1992

      The People he Hurt

      Finding Tomorrow

      Fire Starter

      Reminiscing

      Affair

      SOS

      Save Our Sons

      Mad-Lyrick

      My Mother’s Eyes

      Stevie’s Story written in

      six parts.

      My Son

      Drugs

      Who’s in Charge?

      One Bad Choice

      It’s Just Me

      How can we help them?

      Mad-Lyrick

      (Malik)

      Niggas

      Don’t Look Back

      9 Times Out of 10

      Warning Signs

      Da Hard Youth

      I am Me

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Preface

      I had to start at the end in order to understand the beginning and somewhere in between I found clarity. The truth as it is and not what my deceiving eyes had been telling me. With clarity comes peace, love, happiness and most of all new beginnings.

      They are Just Words

      I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

      – Oprah Winfrey

      Words

      These words I love so well

      Won’t let me recite the stories I tell

      I have a disability -it’s the inability

      To pronounce words correctly

      In my mind I enunciate perfectly

      But when I speak these words they betray me

      I stutter and stumble

      Become frustrated and mumble

      So people think I am not smart

      When I was young, that broke my heart

      I love words and that’s a fact

      It’s doesn’t matter if they don’t love me back

      I will never stop reading them

      I will never stop writing them

      Because with words I can live my fantasies

      Always have sunny days and sail the blue seas

      With these words I can go back in time

      Or describe all the images in my mind

      With these words I can be who or what I want to be

      And they can’t deny the love they have for me.

      My Story

      I had to tell my story but I didn’t know how because the words were too difficult to speak.

      I wrote them down and decided I would make them a song.

      Although the music was beautiful the words carried too much pain;

      And the music would not attach itself to the words so the song did not take life.

      I tried to tell my story through a dance and the dancers would move to the spoken words.

      But when they heard the words their faces were grimaced and their bodies contorted.

      They couldn’t listen to the words and move gracefully because the words carried too much pain;

      And their movements would not attach to the words so the dance did not take life.

      So, I wrote the words in a book and I put it in my chest and left them there…

      Then the rain came and the levies broke;

      All of my possessions got water soaked;

      But someone found my words in the debris;

      And started reading the words to me.

      She read them clear and loud;

      Until the words formed a crowd;

      The words described so much pain and agony;

      And no one knew the story was about me.

      It was because our stories were basically

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