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    Life Is Beautiful: La Vita Es Hermosa
    Life Is Beautiful: La Vita Es Hermosa
    Life Is Beautiful: La Vita Es Hermosa
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    Life Is Beautiful: La Vita Es Hermosa

    By Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza

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    Life IS Beautiful: La Vita Es Hermosa, is a collection of poems that cover life experiences including love, rape, murder and triumph. Written by Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza-and including poems written by poets including Latisha A. Jefferson and Shawn Lanard Lane-these poems boldly show what most adult readers have experienced or thought. This release completes Jaza's dual poetic series created to inspire others to commit to self-love, resilience and praise.

    Life IS Beautiful: La Vita E Bella, the author's debut collection of poems, contains nearly 200 poetic perspectives on spirituality, life, love and oppression. Life IS Beautiful: La Vita Es Hermosa has more than 80 poems-about 55 of which were written by Mylia and includes original imaging by Sun Child Wind Spirit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 24, 2003
    ISBN9781469782522
    Life Is Beautiful: La Vita Es Hermosa
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    Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza

    Hassen Dichari of Dallas, Texas, first created Carsi: The Refugee Planet from his imagination when he was a 14-year-old anorexic in his second semester of 8th Grade back the first quarter of 2004. The book’s concept then began to materialize and become a part of his life and his healing. “During the remainder of high school (2004-2008), the Gatekeepers, Fisheon, Humans, Glushers, and Gulpers became a part of my life,” Hassen recounts. “I have written about three rough drafts of ‘The Refugee Planet’ before finally completing the final copy in August 2011, when I was a healthy 21-year-old. Hassen completed Carsi: The Refugee Planet after taking a two-year break from the book from 2008-2010 because he didn’t want “to dream his life away,” and he wanted to get some sort of accomplishment under his belt. Carsi: The Refugee Planet is the first of the Carsian Trilogy by Hassen Dichari. There are five races of creatures that live in Galaxy Dichri called the Gatekeepers, Glushers, Fisheon, Humans and Gulpers. The Gatekeepers speak Felish, Fisheon speak Fishi, Gulpers speak Gulpish, Glushers speak Glushi, and the Humans speak Human. According to Earth’s terms, Felish is similar to Spanish, Fishi to Arabic, Gulpish to Chinese, Glushi to Russian, and Human to Swahili. The books will be based off of many accomplishments, organizations and beliefs that exist on planet Earth today and over the past 2,000 years. Most of the books in the trilogy will be based on five concepts: Christianity, with the Gatish race (called Gatekeepers) being the savior of the creatures of Galaxy Dichri, accomplishments of England and Spain, different races like the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Ufo’s being demons from hell flying around in vehicles of deception and not extraterrestrial’s, and my personal battle with an eating disorder from 2003-2005.

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      Book preview

      Life Is Beautiful - Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza

      Contents

      Dedication

      Introduction

      No More Talk

      Me, The Poet

      La Vita Es Hermosa

      Life Is Beautiful

      Spotlight

      Resistance

      Drenched

      Robbed

      Scheme of Things

      T-O-N

      Solemn Notice

      Mood Of Love

      Special Requests

      Xylophone Synthesis

      Musings

      The N Word

      Direct Line of Descent

      We Worship The Almighty

      Across The Way

      Jesus, God and Satan

      Jesus Saves

      To My Lord

      Feather

      A Review

      Make Me Happy

      Little Brown Boots and

      a Raggedy Coat

      Old fashioned hymns

      Focus

      Distant Lover

      Aimer le Discours

      Love Talk

      Fully Devoted

      Truth

      With Each Passing Day

      Musings

      Oaks and We

      Encamped

      This Tiresome Road

      Recevoir c’Est Bon

      Getting It Is Good

      Amarantos

      A Shoulder To Cry On

      The Crying Game

      Dam Eyes

      There’s No Way

      After Midnight

      For A Lifetime

      Too Much To Handle

      Missing You

      The Choice Is Yours

      A Plea In Jasper

      Beyond the Day

      Horrible Moment

      Two Days of a Silent Sky

      Pacing

      Birthday Note

      Birthday

      On This Day

      For You On Your Day

      On My Day

      To Richette: On Your First Mother’s Day

      To Tonia: On Your First Mother’s V Day V

      Zapping Trappings

      Usually, Sometimes, Seldom, Never

      Handling Heat

      I Sing a Song of Sadness

      The Sweet Heart

      Counts Kept

      Proving What’s Portrayed

      Untold Love

      You Can’t Mess With

      Me and My Man

      WHY

      What I Want in Life

      Get Me

      Husband

      Loving Love

      Musings

      My Bunkie

      Reflection In The Mirror

      For You to Find Out and Me to Know

      To All My St. Dominic Workers

      ii

      My Belief and Faith

      Extra

      Ice Cream

      Keeping It

      Quick

      Now And Then

      Very Much So

      Family Reunion Occasion

      United Untied

      Las Preguntas

      Questions

      To Love

      Eulogy Upon My Death

      Book & Artists

      Dedication

      I dedicate the earnest commitment of this collection to Jah (God) and my wonderful earthly family, ancestors, friends, associates and posterity.

      Introduction

      by Anthony Joslin

      passion stricken. Passion struck.. The pas- sion-stricken poetry of Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza encapsulates much of the human I experience, especially Love, and radiates a refinement consistently seen in this follow publi- cation and the writer’s debut-Life IS Beautiful: La Vita E Bella. Life IS Beautiful: La Vita Es Hermosa is the inclusive extension of the author’s inaugural work. It not only includes other recent poems written by Mylia, it also includes works of a few aspiring Deep South and Southwest poets.

      Utilizing traditional elements of poetry while breaking some rules, Mylia Jaza is the new voice for black artists. Tempered with history and commitment, and steeped with the freedom of the 21st Century, her forthrightness says this is me and I love every aspect of life-from pain to prosperity. I don’t claim to be a leading literary critic, as film and music are my pre- mier indulgences and the life of the critic is not one I desire. However, I am a Black artist who knows that most Black artists, especially those in America, are asking for something. They are asking for their performance, music and poetry to be accepted by White America. They’re not saying this is America and things are how they are how they have been. People are people. These poems say MJ’s self-validation seems to be her only requirement, while protection plays for and against her.

      On the female perspective, this rare writer does not play the victim despite the ailments of life she has endured. Mylia acknowledges being done wrong, doing others wrong, and experienc- ing and doing right. And regardless of the poem’s subject, each poem is full of passion and imagery, with some offering sentimentality, insight or motivation. By all rights, Life IS Beautiful: La Vita Es Hermosa is a fearless sec- ond project that seeks to help others with every essence of its existence. From the messages of MJs poem to the fact she helped others by pub- lishing their works with hers, we know the heart weve been shown is as big as it reads. The poems in here by Mylia and all the other poets are impressive at worse and worthy of serious promotion at best. Take this tip: Keep your eyes on your copy, and help people order their own.

      No More Talk

      No more talk

      That’s about the Holocaust

      Unless we walk to break the stalk

      On which such hatred finds no exhaust

      Its hot air rising through the hypocaust

      To exalt unvoiced jealous assaults

      No more talk about

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