Poetry Awareness Week

” MISSING YOU, WHY WHY WHY   “

You think it’s not a big deal
You’ve been driving several years
But have you really thought about
The cause of many tears

What if…….for just an instance
Your eyes have left the road
Your hands were busy TEXTING
And your mind was in THAT mode

It only takes a second
To make a fatal mistake
And once that it has happened
The consequences are hard to take

You say that it won’t happen to me
I’m ALWAYS in control
But what about the time it did
Was it worth the life you stole?

So keep your phone out of arms reach
Until you’ve reached your destination
YOU are responsible for your actions
Driving deserves your concentration

Must it always take disaster?
To open up our eyes
Please teach by your example
Before more of America dies….

By Carolyn Vannoster

Book Pick For The Week

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Author Bio & Book Description:

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In,Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.

Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one ofTime’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which became a phenomenon and has been viewed more than two million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.

In Lean In, Sandberg digs deeper into these issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. She recounts her own decisions, mistakes, and daily struggles to make the right choices for herself, her career, and her family. She provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career, urging women to set boundaries and to abandon the myth of “having it all.”  She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women in the workplace and at home.

Written with both humor and wisdom, Sandberg’s book is an inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth. Lean In is destined to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can.

Book Link : http://www.amazon.com/Lean-In-Women-Work-Will/dp/0385349947/ref=zg_bs_books_11

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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings , by Maya Angelou

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom

The free bird thinks of another breeze
an the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

By Maya Angelou

Book Link: http://astore.amazon.com/bernadine-20/detail/0553255762

Book Pick For The Week ( 97 ) !

This book seems very interesting with a lot of twists and turns. If you adore romance novels, you will enjoy this book . If this is the first book in a series, how badly do I want to read the follow-up books? The female character seems lost . Hope she has a kick-ass mother , who will go all out for her child. I hope the readers  find the novel  stimulating as much as I did.

Book Description: When the Earl of  Southern is set upon by a young lady, it takes minutes for him to realize that his assailant is in fact a girl of gentle birth. Intrigued, and hoping to find out why Clementina has run away, Jake puts her in the care of his grandmother.While glad of the earl’s protection, Clementina dare not trust this dangerous rake with her secrets, until a chance encounter drives her into flight, and straight into the hands of her enemies. Will Jake’s dramatic rescue settle the matter, or will it all end in tears? Or eye for an eye !

Author Bio:
Elizabeth Bailey grew up in Africa with unconventional parents, where she loved reading and drama. On returning to England, she developed her career in acting, theatre directing and finally writing. Elizabeth has 18 novels published by Harlequin Mills & Boon and recently began a Georgian historical crime series of which the first two books were published by Berkley Books (Penguin US). But since she still loves romance, Elizabeth is delighted with the opportunity to publish her work independently.

Book  Links:

http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Sacrifice-ebook/dp/B00BZVU4PE/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1364131118&sr=8-3-fkmr0&keywords=sweet+sacrifice+by+Elizabeth+Bailey

 

Poetry Pick For The Week (96)!

Gun violence in America has raise dramatically over the past two decades, and the number of murders committed with a firearm is up, unthinkably.  I wrote this poem for all the VICTIMS of gun violence‘s  and family members left behind to grieve.

” GUNS “

I turn on the radio.
Only to hear about a gun fight.
I turn on my TV.
Only, to watch about a funeral.
A stray bullet hit a little girl.
All I could do at that moment.
Was remembering, Dr. Martin Lutheran Jr. words.
Non- violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time. The need for man to overcome oppression and violence. Without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method, which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

By author Bernadine Feagins

Book LEARNING :http://www.amazon.com/Learning-ebook/dp/B003HS4VR0/ref=sr_1_3_bnp_1_kin?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369237694&sr=1-3&keywords=bernadine+feagins

 

Book Pick For The Week ( 95) !

This  book is highly recommended for treasure hunting, maps location and discovery of tomb adventures . A great gift book for archaeology lovers. The author does an impressive job in making the past come alive in a historical fiction hunt. Overall, a wonderful thriller history read, and you will not be disappointed in purchasing this book.

Book Description

Since 1227, finding the Tomb of Genghis Khan has been the obsession of tyrants, adventurers and treasure hunters.

It is a Genghis Khan fact that, looking at a map today, he had conquered a geographic area which would include 30 countries and 3+ billion people.

The legend says that, in order to keep his tomb’s location secret, Genghis Khan slaughtered hundreds if not thousands of his captives after they had been forced to dig his burial site. He had amassed untold wealth with enormous quantities of jewels, gold and silver from his conquests that are believed to be buried with him.

So why hasn’t his crypt been found in almost eight hundred years?

In The Guardian of Genghis Khan’s Tomb, the Great Conqueror extracts a sacred oath from a special advisor. It binds both this trusted counselor and his family forever to protect the tomb and the most immense treasure ever known.

Now, in a remote Asian river valley, a beautiful English scientist’s chance discovery of an ancient artifact tied directly to Genghis Khan ignites a furious race among China, Russia and the United States to find that crypt. The stakes are huge, putting the young woman along with her American sponsor at the center of the confrontation.

Can The Guardian of Genghis Khan’s Tomb manage to keep the gravesite safe and his beloved country, a fledgling democracy, from being overrun? Or will war break out between the world’s Superpowers? Michael B. Hickland’s e-novel is a fast paced historical fiction thriller full of turns and twists.

Author Bio:

Michael B. Hickland is a graduate of the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. He attended Delaware Law School. He has received formal training in public speaking. Michael then went to work for Philips Medical Systems, where he again received awards for leading the nation in gross ultrasound system sales. Later he served as vice president of sales and marketing for HPI Healthcare Services. Michael B. Hickland has since retired from the healthcare industry and he and his wife, Leslie, reside in River view,Florida, with their son and daughter.

Book:http://www.amazon.com/Guardian-Genghis-Khans-Tomb-ebook/dp/B00BSXC9NY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1363272940&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Guardian+of+Genghis+Khan%27s+TombAuthor

Blog Link:http://guardianofgenghiskhan.blogspot.com/

Poetry Pick For The Week

” BE   THANKFUL “

Be thankful for what you have.

If  you concentrate on the blessing ,inner peace you will find.

No one who achieves success does  so  without the help of others. 

The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

By author Bernadine Feagins

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Book Link Learning : amazon.com/Learning-ebook/dp/B003HS4VR0/ref=sr_1_3_bnp_1_kin?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368654879&sr=1-3&keywords=bernadine+feagins …

Amanda knox ;Memoir

I ‘ve followed the live television broadcast of the Amanda Knox trail and, wonder about the whole story. There is always two sides to a story . For four years, Amanda Knox felt silenced. Italian prosecutors, who had accused her (and two accomplices) of murdering her roommate, called her the devil. The Italian press called her “angel faced killer.” Knox’s only rebuttals came during those brief moments of addressing the court. Even after Knox was acquitted in 2011 and allowed to return home to Seattle—after nearly four years in prison—she stayed voluntarily silent. Now, in Waiting to Be Heard, she is finally telling her side of the story.

Book Description:

A young woman’s soul-baring account of a nightmare turned real, of unimaginable horror and the miscarriage of justice that ensued, and, ultimately, of fortitude in the face of overwhelming adversity, Waiting to Be Heard is a memoir unlike any you have ever read. In November 2007, Amanda Knox was twenty years old and had been studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, for only a few weeks when her friend and roommate, a young English student named Meredith Kercher, was brutally murdered. The investigation made headlines around the world, and Amanda’s arrest placed her at the center of a media firestorm. Young, naïve, grieving at the horrifying death of her friend, and with little more than basic knowledge of the Italian language, she was subjected to harsh interrogations during which she struggled to understand the police and to make her own words understood. The subsequent trial exposed Amanda to international scrutiny and speculation, and she became a tabloid staple. In 2009, after an extremely controversial trial, she was wrongly convicted of murder. But in October 2011, after Amanda had spent four years in an Italian prison, and following a lengthy appeals process, the conviction was overturned. Amanda immediately flew home to the United States.

Book Link: http://astore.amazon.com/bernadine-20/detail/0062217208

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