“Afro Blues from Heaven”: 65 Original Poems to Enlighten and Excite the World During these Difficult Times!

By Paul Manning Jr.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9798369408162

Paul Manning Jr.

Born in 1940 and raised in Dillon, South Carolina. I received both my high school and college education from my great home state. I am a proud alumni of a HBCU – Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. After serving my country for two years during the Vietnam War (1963-65), I moved to Southern California and made the Golden State my lifelong home. For 33 years, I worked for the California State Dept. of Industrial Relations (Apprenticeship Standards) as Senior Labor Relations Consultant. I retired in 2004. Since then, I’ve been blessed with the time to indulge my dearest passion – entertainment. I’ve been a performance artist all of my life. My love for the stage landed me the lead role of Muddy Waters in the play, “When Muddy Waters wasn’t Muddy”. And while I’ve enjoyed acting and performing spoken word, playing piano and guitar is where my true passions thrive. I have had the opportunity to perform with many accomplished artists. I’ve played with T-Bone Walker, Etta James, Percy Mayfield, Big Joe Turner, and Eddie “Clear Head” Vincent, just to name a few.

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Contents

Author’s Bio

Acknowledgements

Welcome to Afro Blues from Heaven

1.   I Am Rhythm

2.   Same 0 Same 0

3.   Nursery Rhyme Blues

4.   A Message

5.   The Breakthrough

6.   Oh, Stop That Jive

7.   My Daddy

8.   Show Down

9.   It’s Just Me

10.  Mercy, Mercy

11.  The Voice

12.  To Mr. Smith

13.  Beware

14.  It’s The Truth

15.  I’ve Seen This Befo

16.  It is What It Is

17.  Stop and Shop

18.  Check Your Self

19.  If You Know the Beginning, Well, The End Won’t Bother You!

20.  God Means Everything 0 Me

21.  Ring Up The Curtain

22.  A Motherless Child

23.  To The Sons and Daughters of Ethiopia

24.  Judgment Day

25.  If You Live Long Enough, You’ll See Things You Never Thought You’d See

26.  What Do You Want?

27.  Take Time and Pray

28.  Take Time and Think

29.  The Taxi Cab Driver

30.  If You Live by your Color - You will Die by your Color

31.  I Remember You

32.  Show Me

33.  The Thin Line

34.  Real Black Love

35.  I Pray

36.  Find Your Self

37.  Blood

38.  Time Will Slow Walk You Down

39.  Sin

40.  I Seen Yesterday

41.  Take Care O’Heart

42.  Mrs. Ruby Woods Carter

43.  Tyrone Crook Thomas

44.  Just Get It Done!

45.  When You Wake Up Get Up!

46.  I Remember You

47.  Wine and Summer

48.  Greed

49.  I Saw You

50.  The Two-Edge Sword

51.  Gordon High Class of ‘58

52.  Do What You Do

53.  You Need The Lord - You Need God On Your Side

54.  The Underground Hotel

55.  Follow Your First Mind

56.  I’m Yours Baby Girl

57.  Oh, Think About It

58.  Flip Side

59.  Mr. Peoples

60.  Back at Cha

61.  The Beauty of Time

62.  Truth

63.  I Need Love Now

64.  You Can’t Boogie with the Devil

65.  The Brightness of the Sun

Author’s Bio

Born in 1940 and raised in Dillon, South Carolina. I received both my high school and college education from my great home state.

I am a proud alumni of a HBCU – Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

After serving my country for two years during the Vietnam War (1963-65), I moved to Southern California and made the Golden State my lifelong home.

For 33 years, I worked for the California State Dept. of Industrial Relations (Apprenticeship Standards) as Senior Labor Relations