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Poetry Spotlight - Bruce H. Edwards
A lifetime of traveling and a long career as a journalist and observer of the human condition has given Bruce H. Edwards a front row seat at the play of life. The New York City native seeks to express life’s panorama of emotion and circumstance through his poetry and social commentary.

Poetry collections by Bruce H. Edwards:
Loving Lovely Ladies
Things on My Mind...Selected, Rejected and Accepted Poems
Every Now and Then ...Can You Dig It Poetry
Ain’t Love Grand
Whispers from the Revolution
View from Beneath (sensual expressions)
Briefly (collection of Haiku)

The Way of a Woman
by Bruce H. Edwards

The way of a woman
For me a lifetime fascination
Each day I learn more
Through detailed observation
Made more exciting
By intimate affiliation

Protecting what is hers
She holds on tight
Her strength a mixture of power and softness
Wrong or right
It is the way of a woman

Her heart and mind with a common goal
She will not be moved
She will not be swayed
But she is always flexible

Giving her all at a moments notice
Going through life’s ups and downs
Willing to leave at that very same moment
Her all that was there will not be found
It is the way of a woman

Her womanly ways
Oh those womanly ways
Turn you out
Turn you on
She can be there with you
And at the same time be gone
The way of a woman

She’ll give you many clues
To who and what she is
You may even think you understand
If in tune you’ll love the mystery
The ways of a woman will be to a man

George L. Cook III http://www.letstalkhonestly.com African American Poetry , Literature & Talk Show

George Cook is the owner of the African American poetry & literature site Let's Talk Honestly at http://www.letstalkhonestly.com . His site helps promote his works as well as those of other authors and poets.

He has just published his second book, Let's Talk Honestly volume 2, which contains poetry about issues in the Black Community. Mr. Cook hopes his poetry shines more light on the ills facing the African American Community and will lead to open conversation and maybe even solutions.

TOUGH GUY
What’s up tough guy
heard you smacked up your wife
ain’t you the same cat
that got knocked out at the bar last night
Calm down, it’s just that
you didn’t look so tough in a fetal position
I guess it made you feel better
beating your wife into submission
I know life ain’t fair
and things don’t always go right
but that’s no excuse
to smack her every other night
Hey you have a daughter, Briana right,
Just wondering if she’s there when you beat mommy black and blue
Don’t get mad yo, I only ask
because in the end she’ll wind up marrying a "man" just like you

George L. Cook III @copyright 2004 from the new ebook, Let's Talk Honestly Volume 2 available here: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/page/page/3118263.htm

Dear Queen
By An adoring fan

I am fascinated by your essence and all what comprises your beautiful nature…I want to ingest all of your love and place you in a ray of elegance for me to enjoy …Can you feel the splendor of passion I have for you? It has always been yours to please yourself with…I desire to have you in softness as violin strings of meaning…serenades our spectacular love affair into a mist of sensuality…I am waltzing in your loveliness on shallow pools of pleasure…prancing and praising the very thought of your magnificence…The sounds of the sea calls me…onward towards you as I navigate the vastness of your importance…Happiness is with me because of you…and I will restrain this burning fire until you appear on the horizon of my mortality….allowing me to enter and place it within regions befitting a queen!

Written for Delores by an adoring fan!!

POETRY SELECTIONS click images
	Who Will Cry for the Little Boy? by Antwone Quenton Fisher
	The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
	The Complete Collected Poems of Maya by Maya Angelou
	Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love by Ashanti
	Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
	The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes... by Langston Hughes
	Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and... by Nikki Giovanni
	Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
	Love to Langston by Tony Medina
	Jelly Roll
	God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse... by James Weldon Johnson
	Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems... by Eloise Greenfield
	And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
	Blessing the Boats: New and Selected... by Lucille Clifton
	Harlem: A Poem (Caldecott Honor Book) by Walter Dean Myers
	American Dreams by Sapphire
	Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
	Hip Logic (National Poetry Series) by Terrance Hayes
	Omeros by Derek Walcott
	Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
	Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
	A Tisket, a Tasket by Ella Fitzgerald
	Transbluesency: Selected Poetry by Imamu Amiri Baraka

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