Introduction

Poestory

Introduction

I had no idea I could write poetry until I wanted to write down the emotions I felt as a child. Whenever I felt like crying, I jotted something down on a piece of paper. Sometimes I would be at work in the middle of a project and the memories of the past just floods my my head. The more I wrote, the better I felt. I realized that I was healing myself through writing. So I kept writing down my thoughts and hid them in my pocket books, under my mattress, in jacket pockets, and various other places. Then one day while I was searching for something, I found one of the poems. I began searching for the rest and decided to write a whole book from the stories found in my poems. My intention was to help teen moms find their way. “In Search of Self”, my first book, has a poem that matches each chapter, and was very successful in delivering a message of hope to more than just teen moms.

It made sense to give my poems its own book since each one tells a different story. It’s like short stories in the form of poems, hence the name Poetstory. Some poems are random thoughts or emotions that just pop up, so I seize the moment by writing it down. I’ve always wondered what my talent was, I had no idea I was an author and poet, but it’s been an amazing journey of becoming the truest, highest expression of myself. I chose to serve humanity through my writing.

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A WRITER’S MIND

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