Naked Expressions is a Poetry Collection. In this collection, I get transparent, bare my soul about growing up around poverty, the grips of a crack-cocaine pandemic, everyday family life in the ’hood, the struggles and hardships of becoming an unwed teenage mother, and so much more. Throughout the pages of Naked Expressions, I express my innermost thoughts and feelings about the all-too-common struggles that young people of color face. All the while, I hope to send a message of great faith, great strength and great pride in and through our greatest trials and our worst mishaps
Excerpt
The hood didn't take me under...
The hood didn't take me under...
When I was sixteen years old
Lost in the big world
'Knowing it all'
But, really knowing nothing at all
Nothing more than hood life; urban sprawl
The hood didn't take me under...
When I was sixteen years old
Seed in my womb
Headed for eternal poverty, food stamps, welfare checks
Hoping, praying to get accepted in a government funded; housing complex.......
IN ANOTHER POEM LENA (TRANSPARENCY) SPEAKS OF WITNESSING A CRACK COCAINE PANDEMIC...
I SAW CRACK...
Take once beautiful curvaceous black-women and turn them into figures that looked like images of the living-dead
Walking up and down the street…Flip-Flops on, dirty feet, hair scattered all over their head.....................
Professional Reviews
FANTASTIC & AMP INNOVATIVE
Naked Expressions is a fantastic new form of poetic verse and art that captivates one in a sincere and unique way. The realness of the poetic verse is indeed what makes this poetic gem so touching. The author, Transparency -is truly an innovator in the craft of putting ryhme into reason the right way!
CAROL DENISE MITCHELL AUTHOR OF ROVELLA STARR & WHAT HAPPENED TO SUZY
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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