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Poetic Excursions...Lyrical Immersions

A Clear View from a Dark Room

by Melinda Renee Lucas (Hart)

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“...I can only be honest with myself...”

This is My Spoken Word. Whether in real life or on social media, when people hardly respond to you, does that make you irrelevant? I guess it’s a question of knowing where you belong. In this, I am learning to not be so hard on myself. If God created me, then I am more than relevant. So I have the right to be here. And He gave me the gift of writing. My poetry and my lyrics are the Voice God gave me to chat with the world.

Within the social media platform that’s supposed to bring people together exists the same classism that always existed among people. There are good things that happen in social media and in real life as well as bad. This can also be said of every aspect of how people interact with each other (ie- home, church, work, school, community, etc). We get information, affirmation and consolation. However, the old facts still hold true. The more superficially attractive and popular a person is, there’s a better chance that that person will be more accepted (liked, retweeted, responded to). But this also true. If I do not have the Faith to move my own self to live, how can I then realize (within self) the power of God to remove the mountain in my way? To be honest, beyond any social platform in media or real life, sometimes the greatest mountain in my way...is me.

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Paperback
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Black & White Paperback, 150 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jun 28, 2019)
ISBN10: 1977203736
ISBN13: 9781977203731
Genre: POETRY / American / African American & Black

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About the Author: Melinda R. Lucas served in the United States Air Force and was honorably discharged. She studied to be a medical laboratory specialist, then reclassified to be a fitness and recreation specialist. She eventually became a member of the Travis AFB Elite Honor Guard. Ms. Lucas was stationed in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, during Desert Storm. Currently, she is serving as the administrative assistant for the Board of Trustees at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York. Ms. Lucas attends the Nubian Conservatory of Music in Brooklyn, where her training is in classical voice (soprano coloratura). She has been writing poetry and lyrics for close to 40 years and has grown to write essays and commentaries relating to the Bible with an informal view of the mindsets behind human relations.
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