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    Excerpts from My Heart
    Excerpts from My Heart
    Excerpts from My Heart
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    Excerpts from My Heart

    By Laval Wilkinson

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    This collection of poems resonates with everyone in every strata of life. It encapsulates issues and ideas that every person will contemplate in his lifetime. These poems cover the areas of philosophy, politics, religion, spirituality, theology, romance, and nature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMay 2, 2013
    ISBN9781466990876
    Excerpts from My Heart
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    Laval Wilkinson

    Laval Wilkinson is a child and youth counselor, teacher, poet, author, and freelance writer. He is a native son of Jamaica who resides in Ontario, Canada, with his wife, TracyAnn, and daughter, Lavanya. He currently works as a child and youth counselor in the classroom, where he counsels children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems. He is also the program coordinator for Cavalry Child and Family Services. Laval is an avid reader and has been writing poems for over twenty years. He worked as a teacher with the Ministry of Education in Jamaica before he moved to Canada in 2001. He taught for one year in Toronto, Canada, before he became a child and youth counselor. In a three-year hiatus from the classroom, Laval worked as a client services manager for a marketing company in Toronto, before going back to his passion, working with children and youth. His absence from Jamaica is hardly noticeable as he has immersed himself in charitable work there assisting the poor and less fortunate, the very roots from which he comes. He contributes to public discourses through the publication of letters in the two major newspapers on the island. He is passionate about his country of birth and has a deep interest in the political and socioeconomic condition of his native home. Over the years Laval has used the medium of poetry, and writing in general, to share his views and perspectives on life. As one who grew up in abject poverty and did not attend high school, yet qualified himself to pursue tertiary education, he is an unrepentant believer in converting stumbling blocks into stepping stones. He has found his voice in writing, which he has utilized to share his enthusiasm for life and optimistic outlook.

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      Book preview

      Excerpts from My Heart - Laval Wilkinson

      Contents

      Foreword

      Fearfully and Wonderfully Man

      Man Up!

      Just Be

      Be Assertive

      Becoming

      Born to Be Me

      The Shadow of Doubt

      Ring the Bells

      HOPE

      Day Break

      Hold On

      The Will

      Fragile

      Death

      Meet You In My Dreams Mama!

      Life Is

      Peace

      Slow Down

      Looking Back

      Life is a Gift

      Today

      We Don’t Have To Agree

      You Deserve It

      All in Its Time

      Every Now And Then

      Here Today

      Lonely Streets of Mud

      Deeds

      Walk in My Shoes

      Chains of Circumstances

      Beauty is Forever!

      Rejection

      A Real Man

      Disturbed

      Blue Monday

      First Casualty of War

      Justice n Peace

      Religion

      Sometimes

      Significance

      If The Truth Be Told

      X-Slave

      No Surrender

      Cries for

      Justice

      Words Kill

      Fear Monster

      Tropical Bliss

      Lavanya

      Mama Hands

      East Indian

      Frenemies

      It   

      Tropical Repose

      Sometimes

      Moon Lover

      The F Word

      The Sun Came Out Today

      I Am Pregnant

      Mother Nature

      The Leaf that Fell

      The Last Sunset

      Missed You Last Night

      Religion Not Christianity

      God Has No Needs

      Getting out of Bed

      The Suffering Lamb

      Saving Grace

      Justified

      Destiny

      The Voice

      Let’s Get Drunk

      He Left

      She Left

      Perfection

      At the Potter’s House

      Fun-less Faith

      The Poor are Rich

      Abused Soul

      Curiosity

      Relic of Westminster

      Bio

      Foreword

      I have come to the realization that if poetry does one thing, it is that it says a lot more about the poet than it does about anything else. At the end of the day it is about the poet’s feelings, thoughts and perspectives. It is to a significant extent, about how he/she views his/her environment and his/her perception of how things unfold in his/her own consciousness. Therefore, when a poet shares his/her poems he/she is really sharing his/her deep feelings and thoughts. I am delighted to give you a glimpse into my ever evolving thought world.

      This collection of poems reflects my experience and thoughts on various aspects of life. Poetry has given me a voice that I can use creatively to make a profound point or bring enlightenment. As an artistic form, poetry for me is not just about sweet sounding rhyming words and rhythmic flow, but a powerful medium for communication as well as an effective catharsis. In poetry the message supersedes the language as poetic license provides the latitude to break the exacting rules of grammar, where necessary.

      However useful you find these poems to be it must be credited to family and encouraging friends who have directly and indirectly supported my continuous development of poetic expressions. Thanks to my wife TracyAnn and daughter Lavanya for supporting my efforts and tolerating my recitals even at inappropriate times. My oldest sister Deberan is responsible for my initial love for reading, and hence my first steps into the land of creative imagination as well as my younger sister Flavia, who shares my love for poetic expressions and appreciation for great writing.

      I dedicate this collection of poems to my deceased grandmother who raised me from I was three months old. Any and every achievement that I attain must be credited to her purposeful and tireless efforts to raise me well. She succeeded at it and for that I am eternally grateful.

      Fearfully and Wonderfully Man

      Fearfully and wonderfully I was made man

      Not a cosmic accident but a purposeful plan

      Each morning in the sunrise I see more than what shines

      I know I am presented a gift most sublime

      My ears behold the chirping of the birds in the tree

      And I know inside they were made to sing for me

      I may not have the fortune of monetary wealth

      But I’m blessed and highly favoured with beautiful health

      I can think and make decisions and express just how I feel

      I can posit my opinions and affix to them my seal

      I can critique or compliment the things that I behold

      I can sing aloud melody or hum a tune in my soul

      I do not have to be the sweetest cookie in the jar

      But someone somewhere thinks I am far above the stars

      I may not have the gift of gab or speech of eloquence

      But I have moved from average valley to the mount of excellence

      I am not a subject of comparison I am just uniquely me

      I am one leaf, one branch, one stem, on the diverse human tree

      Come on brothers and sisters don’t be a self-defeating drag

      Inside you is that gift un-wrapped, that you thought you never had

      Step into the ring; take the bull by its horn

      Put your feet on troubled waters; rise up high above the storm

      You were not made for the day; the day was made for you

      You can make it what you want, and tell it what to do

      In the fluttering of the birds wings and the rustling of the leaves

      Someone made it for your pleasure, hoping you would be pleased

      Tragic is any moment to spurn this grand design

      Such a masterpiece of workmanship; a beautiful mind

      Roll back the curtain; in the spotlight take your stand

      Be all that it means to be fearfully and wonderfully man

      Man Up!

      Stand up; step up and man up!

      Don’t weep; don’t whimper; don’t waffle

      Don’t grumble, don’t gripe; don’t grabble

      Lose the long list of don’ts

      Take your mind off the won’ts

      Then stand up; step up and man up!

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