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NATIONAL POETRY AWARENESS MONTH _ OPEN MIC SHOWCASE_ LIVE 6PM HOUR TRIVEDA _BRENDA _ SIMONE · DA CREW Podcast

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Well. Hello, hello, hello, hello, and welcome, welcome,
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welcome. I want to welcome you guys to the crew podcast. I
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tell you, I get excited every time I get to come from behind the
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scenes. Y'all know, I am the visionary of the Crew Podcast, and
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I tell you we're on our second season and I cannot start this tonight without
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just giving those queens over there a shout out. Y'all. We had an
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open show tonight, so I say, you know what, It is a
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National Poetry Awareness Month, so why not bring on some poets and allow them
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the opportunity to share their brands. I want to share a little bit about
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poetry before I bring you up, before I bring them up, and allow
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you an opportunity to get to know them. On tonight, y'all, we're
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gonna have an amazing lineup of queens tonight. Each hour we're gonna have somebody
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on. We're gonna be on tonight from six to nine, because y'all know
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usually we're on at eight pm every night except for Tuesday nights. For those
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the platforms that you're to be going streaming live on, and they create events
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so that you can interact with those participants and those that support you and follow
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you, and you can share little tidbits about the upcoming event. So y'all
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utilize these opportunities to connect with those that you support, you know, get
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to know them, y'all. I tell you, it's nothing like getting to
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know those people that you follow on a personal level. Sometimes sometimes you may
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not want to get personal with everybody, but some of those that you know
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have that type of platform where you can connect with them and truly get that
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opportunity to get to know who they are. It's a good time to get
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to know who they are, y'a. I'm gonna share something with you,
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guys. Y'all know I gotta have it. I had to start writing stuff
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down because y'all know me, me and me and me, and I'm gonna
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tell you I will run my mouth. Y'all know I like to talk and
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I can talk about anything. So I got me a list tonight. I
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ain't gonna sit on him and run my mouth tonight. I'm gonna stick to
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the subject, and the subject tonight is poetry and showcasing these amazing queens and
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allowing them the opportunity to share some of their words, because y'all know,
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words speak, words speak, So I'm gonna read this really quick and then
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I'm gonna move out the way. April's National Poetry Month a time to celebrate
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the power and beauty of words. Today, we are excited to bring you
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an open mic showcase featuring some incredible poets who will be sharing their work with
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you live. Poetry has the ability to touch our hearts, stir our emotions,
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and inspire us in ways that few other forms of art camps. It
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is a medium through which we can express our deepest thoughts and feelings, making
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sense of the world around us, and connecting with others on a profound level.
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As we come together to celebrate Poetry Awareness Month, we invite you to
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join us in experiencing the magic of poetry. Share. We are sharing lives
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tonight, and we want you to share this out with your family and friends
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so that they too can tune in and be a part of these queens sharing
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on tonight. Throughout this showcase, they will be sharing a little bit about
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themselves, their journey with poetry as they dive into their original works. These
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are their thoughts, their words, and their voice coming together to create something
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truly special. So sit back, relax, and let the power of poetry
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watch over you as we celebrate National Poetry Months with this open mic showcase.
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So get ready to be moved, inspired, and capital by the art of
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words. I put together a little piece. I don't know if y'all don't
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like it because I'm not a certified poet, I'm gonna say that. I'm
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gonna say that. I can say that I am Queen Angela, a poet,
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author, I said it, podcast hosts, and much more in the
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world of podcasts. I rang supreme, a visionary queen with a dream,
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with passion and drive. I lead the way, goding those that dare to
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succeed, come who may. My voice is strong, my spirit is bold,
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A leader, a mentor worth more than gold. I bring many together,
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Alie, I believe in family, a tightningque one. In my presence,
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you will feel nothing but pure wit. With each encounter. I light
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up a room, sharing stories, laughter, and dispelling gloom. Thank you
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for tuning in to the Crew podcast. Adore we adore you. You make
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us better and we are forever warning and given more. So tune in.
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And that's that piece. I hope y'all like this. Y'all want me right
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the way, and I'm gonna bring up my three poets poet ask for tonight.
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I'm gonna bring them up one by one and allow them to introduce themselves.
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I'm gonna bring all three of them in the studio though, and then
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I'm gonna move on out the way so they can introduce themselves one by one
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and then y'all, we're gonna allow them to share their pieces. So y'all
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let me hold on. We w wasn't on Somemon. I don't know why
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I won't let Simon. It's not letting her in the studio. Mm hmm,
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now I tell you, But it's okay, it's okay. We're gonna
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start. We're gonna start. Since it wanted to keep someone, we're gonna
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we're gonna start with them first. It wanted to keep us, we gonna
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let her start first. So Simon, if you would please tell us a
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little bit about yourself Okay, my name is Simon. I am uh kind
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of new to the poetry uh scene. I'm enjoying it immenseally. And UH.
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I am also uh in ministry. I'm an author, and I'm also
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a publisher, and I do also have uh a hair business uh break with
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Brady Wiggs and so on top of that, I'm a mother, grandmother,
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and a wife. So that is uh and the just me. Wow.
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Well, welcome to the Crew podcast Open my poetry showcase on tonight. And
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now we're gonna allow miss Brenda to come on and tell us a little bit
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about her sin. Hi, miss Brenda, how are you? I am
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blessed. I am so honored to be on your mic show tonight, Visionary
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Angela. It is a blessing that you just open up your arms and just
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push us. But I am a pastor. I'm under the leadership of Michael
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Rose here in Los Angeles, California at the Wrecking Crew for Christ Church.
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I am a playwright, producer and director of my own stage play and it
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is called The Five Foolish Virgins and you can find us on Facebook. We
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have our own Facebook page. I am also a poet. I dabbled in
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a little poetry. A couple of years back, I had a business and
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it was called Prophetic Plaques, So I had kind of put it on the
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shelf, uh, And I would do poems and poetry for people. And
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you know, I found out that those that were not believers, the way
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I could tap into their work was to poetry. And that's how I discovered
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that I could do a little poetry. So later on I am going to
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share a little poetry that I wrote. I am also a grandmother. I
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have five grandchildren and four great grands and I love them. So that's just
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a little bit about me. So if I can get Trevino in, she
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said some connection, but she's having some connection problems. It's not that it
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wasn't it's not letting her in, but she'll be back in. I'd say,
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the enemy, I don't know. The enemy always be visiting when it's
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time for people to come forth and share those that He always be trying to
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keep silent. But I bind that spirit in the name of Jesus. Jesus,
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We're gonna keep on pushing. We keep on going. We don't stop,
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we keep on going. We're gonna Hello Latanya, Hello, Shannette,
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Hello, Melanie. They say, hello, ladies, we're gonna go ahead
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and get some poetry going. I say, I I dibble and dabble a
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little bit. As soon as we can get Terita in, we'll allow her
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to come on and introduce herself. But I can tell people a little bit
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about it. But I want her to come on and tell it, because
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ain't nobody tell like she can tell it? You know what I'm saying,
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nobody tell. Can't nobody tell our story? Like wen? I always like
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for everybody to tell their own story because I might leave something out, even
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though I want to tell everything, I might leave something now. I might
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leave by something important that needs to be told. So we're gonna wait.
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We're gonna wait for her to come on. But I wish I could bring
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both. I'm gonna get out of this screen because I want to bring both
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of y'all up. I don't want to see. Okay, Yeah, I
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like this better. I like I know, I like the spotlight. Some
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people like to be on the spotlight, but I like I like them.
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I like that one better right now, So I want I want to know.
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So for me, I'm gonna talk about why I got into poetry.
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So I kept hearing, you know, a lot of people. This was
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some years ago, I want to say, back in two thousand, eighteen,
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twenty nineteen, right before the pandemic was hit, and I was hearing
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a lot of people talk about how Portal was dying out. You know,
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I was hearing a lot of people saying that Portrait was dying out, and
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me, I was like, it can't be dying out the way I see
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all of us. It was more of us, you know, really,
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you know, we were starting to have open mics, were having poetry.
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You know, I was starting to hear podcasts with nothing but poetry and just
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different stuff around poetry, you know, just popping up and being in my
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miss And now I see every time I look on a platform. Now I
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guess it's because I'm always posting stuff about poetry. But every time I look
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on a platform, I see something that has to do with poetry. So
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when people were thinking that poetry was dead, it is yet alive. And
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you know, I'm keep it, you know, I'm just trying to keep
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it. You know, I'm just trying to keep it out there because it
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has been very it has been very important and detrimental for us as brown people
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because we use poetry back doing slavery. You know, that was you know
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a lot of how we expressed, you know. And then with poetry,
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poetry is not like writing a structured center sentence. Poetry. It's not like,
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you know, having to worry about grammar, having to worry about a
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structure, because your word and that word may mean something different to you than
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it means to the next person. So everybody that reads something, we may
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read the same poem, but we may not get the same theme from it.
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Right. You know that thing I'm telling you because I've been in a
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place where someone has been spitting poetry and then somebody people have been drawn and
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they're supposed to have been drawing. What they were hearing, what the point
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was speaking was what they were supposed to have been drawing and painting. Like
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somebody was painting, somebody was drawing, somebody was sculping, like they was
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doing different stuff, and they was coming out with different And then you may
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have two people doing the same thing, but even they whatever they was doing
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was still different. And then I've been in a place where people have just
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painted, and they've painted what the poet was speaking, and you got two
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different pope. You got two different poetraits even coming from this, you know,
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I say it's all upon the beholder, who hears it, who's getting
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it, who's grass being said? I think let me see if at least
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she can come over. Trieda. I know it was some technical difficult We've
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been trying to get you on, but it wouldn't let me pull you up
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if you would introduce yourself that those that are tuned in know a little bit
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about you. Okay, I'm mnst try y'all. My camera will not connect
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now. I don't know what happened, but I am here. I'm gonna
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try to log in on my phone and see what happens there in just a
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few minutes. But I am Trevita. I am the smallest one in the
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bunch. I'm smallest at you, but big in spirit, big and heart,
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big and everything else. Even though I only stand four feet eight inches
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tall, you never know that. I am a mother of three, grandmother
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of two. I am a stroke survivor. I am also a cr information.
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I call myself a warrior because that condition. I never know how I'm
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gonna be from day to day. I've lost my speech, my ability to
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walk, but God said, I have something else for you to do,
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so you will get all of those things back. So I am a author,
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a publisher, an editor, a podcast host. I don't know what
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else there is that I don't do, because I also do hair. I
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do a whole bunch of stuff. So that's me in a nutshell. That's
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it. Wow. So I guess it's almost that time for us to go
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ahead and share our piece and allow some people to to hear some of y'all
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words. So I want to start with We'll start with miss Amone. Okay,
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the poem that I'm going to share with everyone today, it's a poem
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about my son. He was killed in twenty twenty from with gun from gun
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from gun violence, and it's called Missing Ashton. In the quiet of the
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night, this mother does weep for the sorrow in my heart was so deep.
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The vibrant life of my son is no longer near. His embrace and
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love I can no longer feel. At twenty three, gun violence took him
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away. Oh how I wish he did not go to that party that day.
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His infectuous smile has touched so many I did not know during COVID his
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homegoing with people overflowed. My God, how could this be? My son
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is here no more? God offers me this scripture a promise, so dear
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that in the midst of grief and lost, his presence is near. For
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I am with you always, he said, and also declared, he said,
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praise me, because at that party, your second son was spared.
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In every shadow, in every tear, you will never be alone. So
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at that moment I said, depression be gone. I began to praise and
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shout. I knew that he would never leave or forsake me, no doubt.
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He is in heaven with our Savior and King, and I will forever
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let God's praise this ring. For God has truly kept me through this journey
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and have helped me and have through this journey. And I've helped more than
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one, two or three, and have learned not to let grief overtake me.
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You see what the devil meant to destroy me failed. I'm no longer.
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I'm stronger than ever. I know in my heart that all is well,
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beautiful, beautiful, nice Comida. Can you share a piece? Yes,
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me and I can definitely share one. Let me. I got so
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many. I'm trying to decide which one I want to share. Let's see
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this one is called how many more pieces? How many more pieces of me?
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Are you going to take? I am tired. I've just about reach
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my breaking point. I have given up so much, and yet there's still
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it. Still isn't enough. My body is weak and so is my mind.
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Yes, I've prayed so many times, look at the damage that I've
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left behind. The more good I create for those around me, the less
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of it is left for me. I know that I have to wait my
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turn, But exactly when will that be? God? I know that you
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are Are you even listening? Do you even hear me? I know that
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the journey can be long and hard, but does every single step have to
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be that way? I know that I should not question you because you have
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brought me through every single thing that was meant to break me, and I
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am still here. I just feel like myself. I don't feel like myself,
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and I'm breaking and I don't know how much more I can take.
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I understand that I've been through worse and I overcame it all. How much
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more must I endure before I can take a break? Will it be on
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this side or the other? I'm physically and mentally exhausted. How many more
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pieces of me will be left to share? I'm trying to figure out just
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how to maneuver this current situation. Please God just help me stay focused and
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to get to the other side. Wow, Brenda, your turn. Okay.
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My poem is about I wrote a book it's called Breakdown to Breakthrough,
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and this poem is written from what I went through. My personal testimony is
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about myself going through a mental breakdown from a divorce. It was a horrible
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breakdown. I almost went to a sanitarium, but through the word of God
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and through the power of God, God delivered me. So this is the
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poem I wrote. Trust in God. When you are in a dark place,
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it seems like time slows everything down. The challenges of life can take
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you around and around. You must keep fighting daily to stay above water,
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for life itself just gets harder and harder. When trying to dig yourself out
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of the storms and the rain, you must call on God to deliver you
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from your pain. Sometimes you may feel like no one really cares, But
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how can anybody help you? If you do not open up and share The
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cares of this world can cause anxiety, depression and fear. But you must
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remember that Jesus is all alas near. When the fog of life dims your
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light, you must pray and the Holy Spirit will give you insight. S
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not saying it's too hard and why did this happen to me? It is
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time to take authority and tell the devil to flee. You must stand on
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the word of God and use Jesus' name, for God will never leave you
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or let you be put to shame. That's the point. Wow. Wow,
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So you said you wrote this in the midst of almost sven a nervous
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right now? No, I wrote it when you know you had advertised about
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the poetry and that you know we should write something with a brand. So
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this goes along with the brand. I just wrote wrote the poem wow,
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about what I went through from my book Breakdown to Breakthrough. Wow. So
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your book encouraged that poem. Yes, Wow, that's amazing, Glory to
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God. M So what was your process of writing that poem? I want
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to feel like, what was your process of writing that poem? I want
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to get into you as a poet. Okay, yes, ma'am, Well
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you know I knew my topic you know, was breakdown to break through m
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HM. And so my thoughts were, Okay, there was darkness, so
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I have to bring the poem show the darkness and also bring in light,
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positivity and hope. So those were my thoughts when I first sat down to
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write, uh, and then I just my thoughts came and I just started
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writing. That's how I write, as I as. It's almost like,
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uh, Like I told you before, my business was a prophetic flow.
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So it's like when I start to write, the Holy Spirit gives me the
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sentence structure, and I hear words and I tie them in. That's about
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the best I can tell you. I mean, I mean, it's your
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truth. I mean, you tell you how I get it. That's it.
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Yeah, I appreciate you sharing. I appreciate you sharing it with us.
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You're welcome. Thank you. Now we want to talk to I want
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her to share why that piece. The reason I shared that piece, so,
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I think it's because as moms, we're always given more of ourselves than
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we ever get back. It's always another piece. And even in relationships and
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friends, family, we give so much all the time. And at that
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point, I was giving so much and I just needed to get that off
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of me. So I've just decided to write it so that I can get
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those feelings out. Even if no one ever heard the poem ever did anything
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with it. I wrote it down so that I could express how I was
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feeling. And you know, a conversation with God is basically how it started.
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And I was just talking to him asking him how much more of myself
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am I going to have to give up to find out what it is that
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I have left for me? And that's where that one came from. Right,
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Wow? So you just sit down when you write? How do you
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write? Do you just just something that has come to you and you write,
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or you sit there and you think about what you're gonna write? Is
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it trying out? No? I never really think about what I'm gonna write
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or anything. It'll come to me. What I've learned to do when I'm
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having moments of because anything will come to me and I'll have I've learned to
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keep my phone close by our notepad somewhere because the beginning of a poem will
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come and I'm like, I need to write this down, and I never
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would have anything close by, and then I will forget. And so now
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I keep my phone to where I can get to my notes and jot something
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down and just keep it going that way. But that's how I usually write
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whatever it is. The beginning of a poem is always because I'm in the
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middle of doing something else, like if I'm driving or something like that,
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I can pick up my phone and do a voice record so that I can
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remember that thought process and continue on, because driving in the car in some
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mornings and I'll think about, you know, how traffic flows, and how
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people are racing to get to their destination, not understanding that wherever that destination
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is leading them, they're gonna arrive at the time that they were designed to
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be there, regardless of whatever it is, because God designs our scheduled for
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us any anytime we're moving, and it always comes to me and it's like,
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Okay, what are they in the rush for? Doesn't matter. You
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know that you woke up late and you thought you were going to be somewhere
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at this particular time. There was a reason for the delay, there was
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a reason that you overslept, so slow down. And so that's usually what
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a poem or some something will come along those lines. When I'm just minding
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my business as I say, I'm minding my business, but got put something
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like that in the atmosphere and I'm like, okay, let me write this
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down or let me do a voice recording so that i can continue on with
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that. But that's my writing process. I don't really have one that's a
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steady one, but that's usually how it works for me. Wow, Wow,
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the mom, let's talk about your form and your writing process. Okay,
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so my writing process on this. How this poem came about was when
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you had the poet feature for the magazine and it was about a poem that
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represents your brand. Even though I've written two different books, they're both encouraging
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books, but I find myself more of working with people when it comes to
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grief and death, especially you know, mothers, the same as as I've
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gone through. So when I went to sat down, and I sat down,
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and you know, I thought it would be nice if I could tap
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into the book that I had already wrote. It was called I Choose to
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Live, Pushing through the Grieving Process, which kind of basically explained my journey
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as a mom losing her son and also giving people encouragement and hope. So
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that's how this came about. And so when I went to sit down to
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think about my son, I just was thinking about, you know, basically
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what his death took from me, you know, being able to be near
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him and missing him and missing his smile, missing his voice. But at
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the same time, the story doesn't end right there. God basically picked me
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up and he gave me an extra push, and he gave me, uh,
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he gave me a will and a push to continue to live this particular
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journey without him. Uh So that's where towards the end of the poem came
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and to also gave to give people hope that that God is there with you
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and through this and and he'll guide you and he you know you you will
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you know you will get get through this journey. And so that's how basically
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the thought process of this particular poem came came about. Uh, you know,
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it's just basically losing losing my son. And so, like I said,
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I'm kind of new to the poetry. Uh. I didn't even know
32:58
I could write a poem maybe about two months ago. But that's the thing
33:06
about stepping out. Sometimes we have gifts and things inside of us that we
33:09
haven't even tapped. Into that we don't even know that we can do because
33:13
we don't try. So so that's that's that's basically. And I've I've written
33:17
maybe two other poems for another anthology, and it just it just blew my
33:22
way that I could even write something. So that this is my journey as
33:27
in the poetry scene, and I look to write many many more poems to
33:32
come. Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome. So I'm going to share.
33:39
Let me let me come back over there. So I'm going to share
33:45
a poem that I wrote. I want you to be thinking of if y'all
33:51
don't have poems together, I want you to be getting them together because I
33:57
want your to share another poem like we got time, We still got it's
34:01
not even seven o'clock. We still got plenty of time, y'all. So
34:06
next, oh yeah, So I want you to get comfortable and ready to
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share after I shared this one, I want y'all, I'm gonna go back
34:16
and bring each one of you up and I'm gonna let you guys share again.
34:20
But this is one that I wrote in this book. This is book
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number one of the Silently Hurt Inside, Hurting No More series, bringing awareness
34:31
to mental brown and black mental illness. And I wrote this poem. It's
34:37
called My Soul Cries Out. It says, my soul cries out. It's
34:44
a sound of pain, a plea for help, a silent reframe. It's
34:50
a voice of anguish, a cry of despair. It's a plea of understanding,
34:55
a silent prayer. It's a call for help, a plea for relief.
35:00
It's a desperate cry for a life of belief. My soul cries out.
35:07
It's a sound of hope and plea for help, a silent elope.
35:12
And that's that piece. And it's called My Soul Cries Out. And it
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is one of the poems that I wrote for the Silently Hurt, Inside Hurt
35:22
the More series. This book was find Finding Forgiveness was the subtitle of this
35:30
book. And everyone in here, you know, we wrote. We wrote
35:35
about different things, you know. Some wrote about just the rising of the
35:43
sun, you know, and and how that was able to help them forgive.
35:50
We had some that you know, they they were looking for motivation.
35:54
They they wrote about, you know, where they were. Some wrote wrote
35:59
a out they tried and how they had to learn to forgive themselves and forgive
36:04
others. Wrote about letting go, venting and letting it out and sharing,
36:10
you know. But I have found through poetry that it is a way for
36:17
me to release and not be concerned about the cares of grammar, the cares
36:27
of a sentence structure, because these are my words, these are my thoughts,
36:31
this is how I feel, you know, And who's to say that
36:37
this is right or wrong. So that's the one thing about poetry that I
36:42
have loved. You know that they have different I mean there's probably about twenty
36:46
five thirty different ways that you can write a poem. But I love freestyle.
36:52
You don't have known nothing, you don't have to worry about nothing.
36:54
That's my favorite year. I love writing that. I am the visionary of
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I think. I have nine poetry books and all of them are collaborations because
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I truly believe and allow individuals to share and to be a part of the
37:17
things that I do. I am currently working on a three book series.
37:23
It's about legacy and leaving a legacy. The first one is called The Seeds
37:30
of Immortality, the second one is called The Footprints and the Sands Sometime.
37:37
The third one is Echoes of Eternity, and it just gives people an opportunity
37:47
to share about legacy as well as life, you know, and you know
37:52
understanding that this is this is not our home, you know, but we
37:57
have to leave a legacy. We have to leave you something that would be
38:00
able to live immortally, that will live on, you know, even when
38:06
we're gone. And and and we have to understand that. So I God
38:10
dropped that in spirit. And then I had the opportunity to work with some
38:15
amazing people that helped me put together the book covers. For them, I
38:21
like them, they happen to be amazing to me. And and it really
38:25
resonated to what each section was about and about different things. So that's what
38:32
I'm working on. And and and that's a little bit about me, but
38:37
those that were wonder wn and that's and that's why I that's why I write.
38:44
I just want to express. And then I just want to give people
38:46
an opportunity to see all sides of me. You know. They see me
38:51
doing a lot of these podcasts, so they think that hey, that girl
38:53
got it together. No, I don't have it all together. Sometimes I
38:57
be having some issues, so sometimes I have to write it out and sometimes
39:00
I have to deal with I have to sit back and I have to look
39:04
at them, you know, And it's all about being transparent and people understanding
39:07
that, you know, hey, she real, she's she's a human,
39:10
just like I am. She's no different than I am. So hey,
39:15
that's what this is about. So y'all got them poems together. But before
39:20
I go, I'm gonna do a commercial. I'm I'm gonna go to a
39:22
commercial, and then we're gonna come back, and then we're gonna allow everybody
39:27
to share peace. And then I know they wanted they like I was time
39:30
to go by. They trying to rush time by, but it ain't going
39:35
nowhere. I'm going we got twenty more minutes and we're gonna enjoy them.
39:38
Twenty giving away one of Robert L. Horton's it is called Imagine Yes,
39:49
And I have to, Yeah, I have to show this book out because
39:51
guess what I am on page I am the very nast poem in this book.
39:59
I'm very like in this book. And then I am a bonus poem.
40:01
So that means I was I was at it because I was worthy enough.
40:07
I guess. I don't know, but it's cause and when I tell
40:10
you this thing spoke to me, and it spoke of me, and it
40:15
spoke up about me. And this man didn't know nothing that I was going
40:20
through because I had not spoken to him. When I saw this book,
40:22
I cried. He had no way of knowing it because I had not talked
40:25
to him, didn't even though I was going to be in the book.
40:29
But when he handed me this book and I read that poem, y'all broke
40:31
down and I cried. I teared up because it was everything that I had
40:36
been going through. And just to read these poems, y'all. And when
40:40
I tell y'all, when y'all hear history, this man had poems, wrote
40:45
books or poems just over twenty years wow. His wife said, what are
40:52
you going to do with these poems? And he began to publish them.
40:55
And when I tell you, these poems are speaking to the now generation,
41:00
I call him the Prothetic poet because he definitely prophesied and some of that,
41:08
because he wrote them things some time ago and they speaking to the now generation
41:13
and they still gonna speak and it's just amazing. But I have these books
41:16
that I'm gonna I'm gonna be giving these two books away. I want Trevida
41:23
and Mss Barbera to pick two numbers, and then whoever gets them numbers,
41:29
I want you all to put them in the private chat. They can't see
41:30
them, only I can see them. And you guys, y'all put the
41:35
numbers in there, and whoever guess them or come within two of those numbers
41:39
before we end this broadcast, they're gonna win one book, and then we're
41:45
gonna be given another one away during the next hour as well. And then
41:50
I'm gonna give one of my poetry books away as well to someone. And
41:59
then of course everyone is gonna be able to put a number. So it's
42:05
gonna be two numbers. Whoever guess just in case we have h Okay,
42:14
so I got which one't your reader? You get one because somebody else got
42:17
one. Okay, so we got two numbers. We got the two numbers.
42:24
They have until seven o'clock. I guess the numbers if whoever comes within.
42:31
So we got miss Brenda's number up. Now I want you to guess
42:35
Miss Brenda's number. If you're if you're chimed in. Now you guess miss
42:39
Brenda's number, You're going to win a copy of Mister Roberts book. I
42:45
don't know why it's not showing. It won't show good when I'm on the
42:49
background, but I have to turn it a certain way so I hope y'all
42:52
can see it. Oh so while they we're gonna go to commercial, and
43:20
when we come back, we're gonna let them drop those pieces. Y'all be
43:23
thinking of them numbers while we at on commercial. Y'all nowhere near the numbers.
43:30
You know, you may be okay, you'll be ready for ready,
43:46
they ready, they said they ready. They wait on me to go to
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we back we bad bad. Let me see. Oh wow, I guess
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I should have. Somebody said sixty two. Somebody said, funny, they're
45:21
not close. They know what's close on. Y'all. Well, we gonna
45:24
let them drop them pieces. We gonna let them drop them pieces. We're
45:28
gonna start with wan'na start with Charita. Don't start with Charita today, just
45:35
go around. We're gonna start with Charita. Let's see what she got,
45:38
y'all. All right, this one is entitled our Little Black Boys. Our
45:44
little black boys are not viewed as the same as your little white boys.
45:47
Please don't tell me that. To stop making this about race, because we
45:52
are not the only ones bringing it. We are the ones that aren't being
45:55
heard. There's definitely a difference between these two little black boys and little white
46:00
boys. Yet it's their innocence that gets stolen from them in the beginning.
46:06
Stop talking and just listen for a minute. If you put these two small
46:10
children into a room together, without the interference or influence of the adults who
46:16
are filled with nothing but hay, you will see love, compassion, sharing,
46:22
hearing the sound of children laughing and yeah, maybe even a brief,
46:24
little argument about the rules of a made up game that changes. But that's
46:29
what children do. Unfortunately, our little black boys don't get a chance to
46:34
be looked at as innocent. He's simply already being accused of a crime,
46:38
and that is simply being born black, which is a choice he didn't have,
46:44
excuse me, So every single move that he makes has to be strategic
46:50
so that it doesn't cost him his life. Oh wait, the simple thing
46:53
that your white son can do, like driving, listening to music, buying
46:57
skittles, riding in a car, doesn't cost him his life. But our
47:01
little black boys it could cost them their lives. So please don't tell me
47:06
about how many black friends you have, because if you can count them,
47:08
that means that they are just numbers to you and not truly friends. Don't
47:13
even say that you don't look at color and you look at character, because
47:16
that speaks volumes too. Let your actions speak for you. By standing with
47:22
us and speaking up against the senseless killing of us, maybe you will understand
47:27
when your child's name is behind a rest in peace hashtag. Wow Wow,
47:37
it's Brenda. Okay. I wrote this poem for another anthology and the name
47:51
of the poem is Stop saying you do not know what to do. Stop
47:58
saying you do not know what to do, for God Almighty lives on the
48:02
inside of you. Look inside yourself to see hidden treasures God has to bestowed.
48:10
You have generational gifts and talents waiting to unfold. Stop saying you do
48:17
not know what to do, for you are worth more than rubies, diamonds
48:22
and gold. God gave you all things and the world to withhold. You
48:29
are God's kings and priests, ordained to walk in victory because your Lord and
48:36
Savior died on the cross at Calvary. It is time to wake up and
48:40
walk in your God given authority. You can cast out devils, for you
48:46
have the ability. Stop saying do not know what to do. For God
48:52
hath put his anointing solely upon you. Just take your imaginations and dreams and
49:00
spread your wings. God is going to show you witty inventions and do a
49:06
new thing. All you need to do is decree God's word, pray and
49:14
fast, for what you have decreed will surely come to pass. Divine knowledge
49:21
and wisdom reside on the inside of you. The Holy Ghost is waiting to
49:28
make things happen just for you. You can do all things through Christ,
49:34
who strengthens you. Just listen to God's voice and he will tell you what
49:40
to do. Down in your spirit is denymous power waiting for you to demonstrate
49:46
God's chain breaking power. Demons and devils have no real power. It is
49:52
time to set the captives free. At this very hour, people are dying
49:59
and are waiting on you. It is time to break the change that only
50:04
you can do. Now you can stop saying I do not know what to
50:09
do, because now you see you have so much work to do. And
50:15
that's that one wow wow com This particular poem is called Salvation's Salvation Plea.
50:34
It's Lord here, I am standing here with the plea. Throughout all that
50:38
I have done against THEE. Do not take your holy spirit away from me.
50:44
You are my joy. You are my love, joy and peace,
50:49
my God in my king. How do I love THEE? In your presence
50:52
is where I long to dwell. Your glory came and filled the whole atmosphere,
50:59
and is where I found my peace. No longer will I allow the
51:04
devil to defeat me. You healed my body, soul and mind. Your
51:08
love for me is truly divine. My prayers are that you have and encounter
51:15
with God so new he will come and rest in your heart like the new
51:22
morning dew. Give your life, care and sorrow to Him today. For
51:27
Jesus, it's the only way. Wouldn't you love to walk in the streets
51:31
paved in gold, no longer be sick, and never grow old. And
51:37
heaven is where I strive to be. So I work on my salvation daily.
51:44
Just say, Jesus, come into my heart today. I believe that
51:50
you are the only way. I believe that you died and rose on a
51:54
third day, and I am giving you all of me today. Thank you
52:00
Lord for saving me. Now I have a new life in you, and
52:04
I have the victory. Just know, if you said this prayer today,
52:09
you are now saved and now bless his name, mhm ay man. And
52:19
that's the point. Beautiful, well ma'am. Wow, Wow, amazing,
52:28
amazing, amazing, amazed. H So wow. I definitely want to thank
52:37
you guys for coming on and sharing tonight and allowing those that tune in and
52:43
those that we get this replayed. Just a little bit about you, guys,
52:46
and here's some of your work and here some of your We're gonna go
52:52
around and as we you're ready to close this hour out, allow you guys
52:57
to share with those How can they connect with you guys? How can they
53:01
follow and support the things that you go. I'm gonna start with Travida Okay.
53:08
You can find me on Facebook, of course, Trevida Harris. You
53:13
can find me on Instagram as Trevida Underscore Harris seventy eight. You can also
53:19
follow my business page, which is Wings of Transformation Publishing. You can find
53:23
me on TikTok as Trevina Harris. Pretty much t r i v e.
53:30
D A. Harris is pretty much where you're gonna find me. I ain't
53:35
no difficult person to find. Well, if I'm in the crowd, of
53:37
course you'll be. It'll be a little difficult because I'm small. But as
53:42
long as there's no crowd, you'll always find me. But reach out.
53:46
If you need something edited, you need help with even starting a book,
53:52
just reach out to me. I'm here to walk you through it one step
53:54
at a time. You need something edited, document at me, not quite
54:00
sure where to get started, you know, reach out to me. I'm
54:04
happy to help. That's what I do. That's what guy said, do
54:06
That's what I'm going to do. Amen, Amen, mis Simon, how
54:12
can we connect with you? Yes, you can find me on Facebook under
54:19
Simone Williams or author Simone Williams Young. I do also have a link tree
54:27
which is uh link t R dot E E forward slash Simone Williams Young.
54:37
And you can also contact me through my website is y'all published dot com y
54:46
A h publish dot com in there that is my publishing company's website. So
54:58
I do publish books if you if you do have any publishing needs, and
55:01
then I also have she Unique LC and as she then U N I Q
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L l C dot com if you have any if you like any Brandy wigs,
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I do also have that website as well. Thank you, Branda.
55:29
Yes, you can reach me on Facebook as well under Brenda Williams or author
55:37
Brenda J. Williams. The name of my book is Breakdown to break Through,
55:44
which is on Amazon and Barnes and Nobles, our second book. I
55:50
will let my daughter the Visionary tell about that book. I guess. So
55:55
you can reach me any of those ways. Amen, Amen Samon, I
56:07
think your mama wanted to share about the book. Okay, Yes, I
56:12
have a collaborative book. It's called Stronger, Better, Wiser, Walk Into
56:17
the New You. And I don't know because I kind of have that background
56:22
too. We'll see if this shows and this is the book. Yeah,
56:30
but this is the book Stronger, Better, Wiser, Walk Into the New
56:35
You. It's basically about using your past experience to make you stronger, better,
56:39
wiser, not to stay stuck there and to move forward so that God
56:44
can continue to give you everything that he has for you. And so it's
56:49
a very encouraging book, very powerful. You can get it on we are
56:53
on Amazon and then also if you go to the y'all published dot com uh
57:00
you can also publish. You can also purchase it there as well as well
57:06
as my book I Choose to Live Pushing through the Grieving process, And you
57:09
can also if you know anyone that's grieving or if you are grieving, you
57:14
can definitely go online and purchase that book. It will definitely encourage you.
57:21
Amen. Amen. But I definitely want to thank you guys for stopping by
57:24
and sharing your words on tonight and sharing just a little bit about you as
57:29
we celebrate National Poetry Awareness Month. Again, I thank you guys for stopping
57:34
by. Y'all, have a great rest of your evening. Afternoon. I
57:40
know y'all are out in beautiful California, so but just now for a for
57:46
a'clock. So it's afternoon out there, were getting ready to were getting ready
57:53
to start transitioning to sleep some of us in because five am come early in
58:00
the morning. So I want to thank you guys for stopping by and taking
58:06
this time to share with us as we celebrate National Portrait Money. Y'all have
58:10
a great evening, you too, you too, and thank you so much.
58:15
Thank you. Good night, y'all, Good night everyone. We're gonna
58:27
prepare for the next group to come up. While we're waiting on the next
58:30
group to come up, y'all, I want to share another commercial. That's
58:31
all we do. Wanna share another commercial. We didn't have anyone to win
58:37
the book the last go round, so it's still on the table. The
58:40
two is still on the table. It's still on the table. The numbers
58:45
were the number seven and the number two nine. MS Brenda our Brenda had
58:52
number seven and Treda had number twenty nine, so no one was close.
59:00
So y'all will be right back and we're gonna move on to our next group
59:05
of amazing poets. All things and what things used to be? Where has
59:21
it all? The blue sky's but boys from the North, the southing well
59:30
person, all things ain't what they used to know. Well, welcome back,
59:43
welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. And I know y'all probably
59:45
wonder why does she keep playing that particular commercial. Well, I promise one
59:52
of our hosts, who is a injustice advocate, that I would share that
59:59
clar as much as I could to help put a face to some of these
1:00:04
stories that we have been sharing across our network. Of course, we do
1:00:07
a lot for injustice for those that are on for incarcerated or overly incarcerated.
1:00:13
We understand that some people do make mistakes, but for some of these sentences
1:00:16
that they are handing out across these United States of America, it's it's ridiculous.
1:00:22
You give someone already a life sentence and then you hand down another one
1:00:27
hundred and ninety two years. How do you expect them to ever come home
1:00:30
with the sentence like that? And especially in the state of Texas, they'll
1:00:34
want you to do fifty percent of that. If you give somebody one hundred
1:00:37
and ninety two years and you want them to do fifty percent of that,
1:00:42
and then they got the fight, like h ell to come home, and
1:00:45
then everything is steady denied. It's crazy. People right now in the state
1:00:51
of Texas are doing thirty three forty years. I have someone now that I'm helping