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    Walking Still: Poetic Reflections of Friends, Family, Life, and Love
    Walking Still: Poetic Reflections of Friends, Family, Life, and Love
    Walking Still: Poetic Reflections of Friends, Family, Life, and Love
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    Walking Still: Poetic Reflections of Friends, Family, Life, and Love

    By Taaj

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    Walking Still includes treasured memories and heartaches of everyday people. It examines the relationships between men and women, falling in and out of love, the environment and nature, lifes challenges such as infidelity and domestic violence, family values, and many other provocative themes. Walking Still takes you beyond photographs, conversations, and dreams as it delves into the depths of lifes experiences to capture the essence of the unforgettable memories that touch our souls.

    The author takes us on a therapeutic journey by sharing comic moments, love stories, and tragedies through narratives of friends and family. She unveils the beauty of life, along with its mishaps and collisions.

    Whether you feel yourself venting along with the author in Cleansing, experiencing the warmth of Two Grand Divas, exploring the love of Husband, or just pondering, How many tuna cans can you open before enough is enough? In Walking Still, you will find enjoyment in the rich imagery and emotion of these poems.

    As you read some of these powerful, emotive poems again and again, you will find yourself laughing and crying with the author. Their tenderness and honesty will surely find a place in your heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 17, 2010
    ISBN9781440198649
    Walking Still: Poetic Reflections of Friends, Family, Life, and Love
    Author

    Taaj

    Taaj, a Professor of Education, has been a developmental specialist, therapist, and professional advocate for children with disabilities and their families. Taaj is a mother of four and has two granddaughters. She currently lives in Renton, Washington, with her husband, her high school sweetheart.

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      Book preview

      Walking Still - Taaj

      This book is dedicated to

      My best friend, closest family member, partner in life, my true love,

      HAQ

      All photos by Shaheed J. Qaasim

      Contents

      Preface

      *Poetic Reflections of Friends*

      A Friend …

      Wishbone

      Broken Fidelity

      Aesthetic Clarity

      Apparent

      Iceberg and the Lighthouse

      Bound in Circles

      Aging

      Survivor

      Schoolhouse Blues

      Keeping It Real

      The Magic Belongs to Me

      *Poetic Reflections of Family*

      Cleansing

      When Daddies Were Home

      Natalia’s Butterfly

      19 Months

      Dinky’s Apples

      Crying Wisdom

      Mama’s Soliloquy

      Cruel Rhapsody

      Blue without Yellow

      Grand Divas

      A Grandmother’s Plea

      Epiphany

      Splendid Image

      Natalia’s Curls, Kamilah’s Waves

      She’s Called Missy

      The Making of a Girl

      *Poetic Reflections of Life*

      Ode to Responsibility

      Who Killed the Cypress Tree?

      Menopause

      I Will Not Forsake Thee

      Admiration

      Sleepless Laments

      Unrest

      Solitude

      Quiet Moment

      Suffering

      Faith

      Life

      Compassion

      Whistler

      Poems from Maui

      Warm Good-bye

      Sugar Break

      Seattle’s Summer Soup

      *Poetic Reflections of Love*

      Husband

      Honey Child

      Devotion

      Arousal

      Renewal

      My Fantasy

      A Hymn for Him

      By the Lake

      Voice

      A Privacy Screen

      Poetry

      A Request

      Whispers to Scream

      A Finite Unit

      Umoja Means Unity

      Song for My Sisters

      Walking Still

      Preface

      Have you ever taken a journey without packing a suitcase or physically moving from one place to another? Well, Walking Still: Poetic Reflections of Friends, Family, Life, and Love is that type of journey. These poems examine the emotive journey that each of us experiences from just living. We naturally reflect on our life experiences. We attempt to capture these experiences visually in many ways: digital frames, photo albums, and even in shoeboxes. These images help us to hold onto treasured memories that otherwise could be lost. We also attempt to reflect on our experiences through conversations, in our dreams, and in the arts, such as music and dance. Basically, any way we can.

      A photograph only captures a moment in time, memories in dreams are distortions of the true experiences, conversations invite other perceptions that may change our own, and attempts to memorialize our experiences through music and dance are limited by artistic ability. Nevertheless, we continue to walk through our thoughts to relive treasured experiences or learn valuable lessons.

      Reflection on our experiences is basic to us as humans; we are driven by ideas, purpose, and thoughts of our past. The ability to reflect on who we are allows us to grow and develop as people, to have empathic thoughts toward others, and to think critically about life or, in other words, to become courageous, compassionate, and competent. Walking Still: Poetic Reflections of Friends, Family, Life, and Love consists of reflections about life’s experiences that allowed me to grow as a friend, wife/mother, teacher/poet, and woman. Simply put, to enjoy living by sharing experiences through words.

      In this book, I show you how starting with the safer reflections of others will lead to examining the relations of family, which are much closer to home.

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