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    A Poet Sings of Freedom, Love and Life.
    A Poet Sings of Freedom, Love and Life.
    A Poet Sings of Freedom, Love and Life.
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    A Poet Sings of Freedom, Love and Life.

    By James P. Wooten

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    The book looks at three major aspects of life in America and of life period. It give us an on-site view of race relations in the United States during a very tumultuous time. But it's not just about race relations, it's also about love, it's about life, it's about people like you and I.
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    Release dateMay 31, 2011
    ISBN9781456757618
    A Poet Sings of Freedom, Love and Life.
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    James P. Wooten

    Dr. Wooten, professor businessman, public speaker, and community organizer, has just completed his first book. It consist of poems and essays that he has written oer the last 50+ years. Through this vehicle, he shares with us a view of our country's racial history and also gives us a unique and wonderful perspective on love and life. Definitely worth reading!

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      A Poet Sings of Freedom, Love and Life. - James P. Wooten

      A POET SINGS OF FREEDOM, LOVE AND LIFE.

      James P. Wooten, Ph.D.

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      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2011 James P. Wooten, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 8/26/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-5761-8 (ebk)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-5762-5 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-5763-2 (sc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011908065

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      FOREWORD

      FREEDOM! CIVIL RIGHTS… AND CIVIL WRONGS

      Africa

      America, America

      Assimilating

      And Killers Go Free

      Black Man’s Mission

      Dese Wite Folks

      Freedom Ain’t Freedom if a Man Ain’t Free

      Hate

      I Am Not Crying For Me

      It Ain’t Fer’

      Lest We Forget, Lest We Forget

      Listen, Black Man!

      Marching Blacks

      NO PARADE TODAY, THE KLAN’S IN TOWN

      "On Becoming American:

      Entrance Requirements For Blacks Only"

      Prayin’s Got To Go

      Real Songs of Freedom

      The Virtue of Waiting

      To Martin Luther King

      Waiting For Freedom

      Who Is Free?

      LOVE

      A Beautiful Love

      A Lover’s Plea

      A Prayer

      Beauty

      Birth of Love

      Chaos

      Day Dreams

      Heartbreak

      Hopeless

      I Remember

      I’m Looking For You

      I Still Love You

      Just A Dream

      LADY GWENAVERE, MY LOVE

      LADY GWENAVERE- MY BROWN EYED ANGEL

      Last Night

      Little Girl

      Living is Loving

      Lonesome

      Losing A Good Thing

      Lost In Dreams

      Love

      Love of My Life

      Love, Sleep, and Dreams

      Meeting You

      Miss You

      MY BROWN-EYED LADY

      Never Love A Sleeper

      Ode to Black Women

      Omnipotent

      Peace Makers

      She Needs Me

      Something To Think About

      So That Love May Live

      SWEET ONE

      The Beauty of Our Years Together

      The Numbers Game

      TheQuestion of Love

      Therapeutic Tears

      Thanks For The Memory

      Three Little Words

      Touch Of A Woman’s Hand

      What Is Beauty

      What I See

      What You Are

      When I Need You Most

      Where Is Love?

      Woman Who Captured Youth

      You Are

      LIFE…

      NUGGETS OF WISDOM

      Abstractions

      A Little Spot of Pot

      Childhood Dreams

      Death

      Depth

      Drinking Spree

      Easter

      Eternity

      Everybody Fears

      Flowers

      Games

      GOD SPEAKS IN THE THUNDER

      Hasta La Vista

      Higher Than I

      JAYNE

      Keep Your Cool

      LATEEFAH AISHA

      La Teefa Noni We Loved You Well!!

      MASTER JIM

      Message to Students-

      Using Time Wisely

      My Epitaph

      Nature

      No Joke, No Dope to Cope

      Ole Joe

      Omnipotence of Time

      Plight of a Fool

      POOR JILL

      Rebellion

      Silence

      Snow

      Surviving in America

      Teacher’s Motto for Students

      The City

      The Ocean

      Thoughts

      The Mighty March Wind

      TO CARMEN DIONNE, WELCOME

      What Is Living

      When Death Fell

      ESSAYS

      Letter To God

      Look How Far You’ve Come

      The Double Standard

      FOREWORD

      A POET SINGS OF FREEDOM, LOVE, AND LIFE ….AND ESSAYS

      This work represents a compilation of poetry written over a 50 year period. It reflects the joys and pangs of a young man in and out, of love, a young man growing up with a lust for life. A young man, trained by the Marine Corp to be ready to die, to free some other people he never knew who never did a thing to him and then to come home and find his own people still in a form of slavery. Such contradictions created much confusion. Such confusion that Dick Gregory once summarized by saying, that he was fighting the wrong people. It also reflects the pang of a people struggling to be free, in a nation and a time equally bent on denying them that freedom.

      As he was putting the finishing touches on this work, one side of him was thinking of revising it in spots to soften it or to make it more palatable, particularly the segment on civil rights since the current situation has shown some modest improvements. But he later decided against that, feeling that this work represented a moment in this country’s history, at least from the perspective of this writer, and this country has not had the best history. It has had some painful moments particularly for people who look like this poet and particularly for Native Americans. He knows this country wants to forget it and pretend that it never happened. But to soften it would do a gross injustice to all the people who gave of their time and some times their lives trying to force a nation to live up to its creed that all men are created equal also it would deny this present generation an opportunity to feel what this poet felt during those times and by so doing to be unable to see this nation as it was... And to some degree many would say,.... still is. An illustration of that is the current political climate in this country where some of the supporters in John McCain’s recent political campaign, dropped racist hints in their political speeches or in some cartoons that appeared in different parts of the country that portray President Obama, as a monkey. Thus appealing to that segment of the population that still hate African Americans.

      Some poems are written in southern dialect. This was in no way designed to cast dispersion on his southern brothers and sisters, but instead it was designed to show the key role that these brothers and sisters played in their plight to be free. Additionally it reflected the influence of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, whom this poet grew to appreciate because Paul also wrote in dialect at times.

      This work also talks a lot about love and affection. Many of these poems do not reflect actual experiences of the poet, no more than the work of writers who write about murder and mysteries, reflect the lives that they have lived. Instead some reflect the words of a man who has been blessed with a lively imagination. Who also wrote poetry for his fellow Marines in response to their sweethearts back home. In essence the words of a gifted man sharing his gift with others.

      Further, even though they try to capture a moment in time, this poet feels in many ways that many things in life don’t change. Many things are still the same since the beginning of time, it’s what has inspired this poet to write these rhymes.

      This work is dedicated to his wife, Gwenavere, all of their children, his siblings, his mother Mildred, his father, James his grandmothers Effie and Lillie, his aunts and uncles

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