Black Doves
by Deborah Agnew
Black Doves is a journey of flights. Sometimes, upon these flights we soar to lower heights, and sometimes we soar to higher heights. In this collection, I take the reader with me to places I have been and people I have known. But most importantly, "black doves" are my sisters and my brothers.
We must rise up and go beyond the challenges that we face each day and stop blaming each other.
My sisters, we must love ourselves and stop settling for less, and my brothers, we must learn to love our women like they are supposed to be loved.
It is not the white man's fault, nor the system's fault, but a combination of both circumstances and obstacles that keeps us from rising to the top.
If we learn to love one another as ourselves, which is the second greatest Commandment foretold by the Son of God, we can then allow ourselves the privilege of being accepted as we are.
"Black doves" are you, they are me, and they are different. And the only difference is the color.
Surely, they can still take their wings and fly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deborah Agnew was born in 1962, and she was raised in the city of New Haven, Connecticut. She attended James Hillhouse High School and graduated with her class in 1980. Agnew studied Journalism at Southern Connecticut State University in 1980 and 1981.
This author was not only the editor of the high school newspaper, but also a member of Who's Who Among High School Students.
Ms. Agnew attended Yale University in her senior year as a gifted and talented student, taking a course in Expository Writing. In addition, the first poem from this collection, "The Date...Escort to the Ball," received honorable mention from www.poetry.com (1999), with the copyright under the name Deborah A. Morris.
Several pieces from the collection, including "The Man From Galilee," have appeared in this writer's former church bulletin, Emmanuel Baptist of New Haven in Connecticut (2002).
Other favorable mentions by this author not included in this collection have also appeared in various universities: a collaboration of poetry at Yale University Afro-American Art Center (1978) and Weselyan University (1979).
Ms. Agnew has also read poetry at various other institutions within the New Haven, Connecticut community, including local high schools as well as the All Gallery, an Arts Literature Laboratory (2005).
Ms. Agnew currently resides in Hamden, Connecticut, and lives with her son, Denver.
(2006, paperback, 50 pages)
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Black Doves is a journey of flights. Sometimes, upon these flights we soar to lower heights, and sometimes we soar to higher heights. In this collection, I take the reader with me to places I have been and people I have known. But most importantly, "black doves" are my sisters and my brothers.
We must rise up and go beyond the challenges that we face each day and stop blaming each other.
My sisters, we must love ourselves and stop settling for less, and my brothers, we must learn to love our women like they are supposed to be loved.
It is not the white man's fault, nor the system's fault, but a combination of both circumstances and obstacles that keeps us from rising to the top.
If we learn to love one another as ourselves, which is the second greatest Commandment foretold by the Son of God, we can then allow ourselves the privilege of being accepted as we are.
"Black doves" are you, they are me, and they are different. And the only difference is the color.
Surely, they can still take their wings and fly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deborah Agnew was born in 1962, and she was raised in the city of New Haven, Connecticut. She attended James Hillhouse High School and graduated with her class in 1980. Agnew studied Journalism at Southern Connecticut State University in 1980 and 1981.
This author was not only the editor of the high school newspaper, but also a member of Who's Who Among High School Students.
Ms. Agnew attended Yale University in her senior year as a gifted and talented student, taking a course in Expository Writing. In addition, the first poem from this collection, "The Date...Escort to the Ball," received honorable mention from www.poetry.com (1999), with the copyright under the name Deborah A. Morris.
Several pieces from the collection, including "The Man From Galilee," have appeared in this writer's former church bulletin, Emmanuel Baptist of New Haven in Connecticut (2002).
Other favorable mentions by this author not included in this collection have also appeared in various universities: a collaboration of poetry at Yale University Afro-American Art Center (1978) and Weselyan University (1979).
Ms. Agnew has also read poetry at various other institutions within the New Haven, Connecticut community, including local high schools as well as the All Gallery, an Arts Literature Laboratory (2005).
Ms. Agnew currently resides in Hamden, Connecticut, and lives with her son, Denver.
(2006, paperback, 50 pages)
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days.
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