Perspectives of a Life Lived

By Mary Harris

Mary Harris experienced many aspects of life that were thought-provoking. As a girl, she often walked the streets of Charleston, South Carolina, and observed the effects of the environment on people's lives. She was then able to often use her spiritual beliefs to understand and relate personally. Through the vices of poetry, she analyzed and recorded her thoughts.

Here, she also describes her adolescence endeavors, love for family, and relationships as well as how she, as an adult, persevered and navigated in a multicultural society to achieve her goals.

Perspectives of a Life Lived focuses and visualizes for the reader vivid reactions to love and daily life. It offers dedications when losing loved ones in respectful, touching tributes from the heart. There is a sense of protectiveness portrayed in the section of poems titled "God's Grace". It illuminates the serenity needed to go on through all trials and tribulations.

Mary Harris profoundly expresses her voice in the various "Perspectives" poems as she achieved her goals for a long career; traveled in her off time as a hobby; and interacted with colleagues, friends, and family.

You will surely be encouraged and see yourself on many levels, reading these exciting poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886540215

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Perspectives of a Life Lived

Mary Harris

Copyright © 2022 Mary Harris

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

ISBN 979-8-88654-008-6 (pbk)

ISBN 979-8-88654-021-5 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Love and Relationships

Fathers and Daughters

Lost Love

For Now

You Can't Relate

Free Spirit

Bingo

Forgiving Our Fathers

I Cried for You Today

I Didn't Know

We Gathered Together

Immaculate Patience

People Destroying Other People

I Cried Inside

A Mother's Love

If You Take Me Back

Communication Block

Mother's Wit

Sparing Pain

Every Bit of You

You Look Good

The Power of Reciprocating

The Princes of Pennsylvania

Memorials

Remembering Angie

An Ode to Jacobi (Cobi) Johnson

Farewell, See You One Day

An Ode to J. C.

An Ode to Songbird

The Transition

Gone Too Soon

Welcome Home

Uncle Willie, Gone to Glory

An Ode to Gerri

Uncle Willie

God's Grace

A Sense of Being

Step Back

Nothing Else Matters

The Miracle Maker

I've Got to Tell It

Hey, God

Praise Him

The Dignified Sanctified

The Devil-Angel Syndrome

The Sweet Blood of Jesus

Stomp Out the Devil

The Keepers

Creation

Praise My Lord

Perspectives

Black-Girl Power

The Students

Fall Is…

Do You Even Know?

California State of Mind

A Las Vegas State of Mind

An Ode to Rockaway, New York

Filling a Void

An Era of Deflection

Gay Paris

Hawaiian Dreams

Florida's Rays

Carolina Courtesy

Hat Personality

Desire

Red-Eyed Monday

When Life Fleets

America in Turmoil

The Little Gray Cat

If I Could Live Again

The Manipulator

Jamaican Breezes

Coronavirus Panic

Oh Ye in High Places

Comatose

No Changes

I Remember

Common Courtesy

Splendidly Slender

Touching My Hair

Time

Teaching

Visions of 9-11

Appleton

About the Author

To all of the courageous people, who live in love, truth, and integrity.

Love and Relationships

Fathers and Daughters

March 1996

The first look at your eyes revealed an undying

source of energy, a connection that is like no other.

A father to his daughter.

Growing, playing, sharing memorable times

that would always be cherished.

This is a father and his daughter.

A female version of what and who he once was,

the features, personality, and behavior are uncanny.

A daughter to her father.

The protector, always concerned and filled with advice,

just wanting the best for her.

For they are fathers and daughters.

Lost Love

February 14, 1996

Reaching, reaching, reaching,

Yes, I'm trying to reach out to you, baby!

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming,

Just constantly dreaming about you!

Needing, needing, needing,

Needing every drop of your good loving!

But we can't connect, sorry!

For Now

February 1995

I have chosen to accept us as we are,

to love you through it all.

Yet sometimes I try to find the strength

to let go!

I cannot!

So I have become accustomed to our

relationship as it is…

for now!

You Can't Relate

March 1, 1995

Sometimes when we converse,

I feel you're not there…

Maybe communication is down, or

you just don't care…

Life is too very