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A rich, young ruler / with somewhere to go.
A home in hell—just what the rapist / needs, I pray

 

 

Book by Jeannette Drake

 

Journey Within: A Healing Playbook

 

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Deliverance

                                         (After Oprah's show)

By Jeannette Drake

At first I want
the unnamed rapist
to die. "A five-month
old baby," Ricky M.
reports. Raw news.
A rich, young ruler
with somewhere to go.
A home in hell—
just what the rapist
needs, I pray
'til from a distance
a distant plane I hear
Mother say, Lord H'am
Mercy, give up the hate.
Sanctification needs
to be his fate.
Open heaven's gate.

Lord H'am Mercy.
Christ Have Mercy. 

Jeannette Drake, a licensed clinical social worker, specializes in Dream and Expressive work in group settings. She has conducted individual and group sessions with adults, adolescents and children in schools, colleges, hospitals, prisons, churches, shelters, and art galleries as case worker, counselor, psychotherapist, teacher, tutor, and writer.

Her writings have been published in Honey Hush! An Anthology of African American Writer's Humor, Callaloo: A Journal of African American Arts & Letters, The Southern Review, New Virginia Review, The Book of Hope & The World Healing Books, The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas, Richmond Free Press, Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers, DisabilityWorld, a bilingual international web-zine and other journals and magazines.

 

She has performed as a gospel soloist, acted in James Baldwin's The Amen Corner and leads a monthly book discussion and creative writing group at her church.

Her visual art has been exhibited at Richmond City Hall, the Carillon at Byrd Park and the Richmond Public Library (July 1-August 3, 2005).

A graduate of Hampton University and Virginia Commonwealth University,  she lives in Richmond.

Forthcoming May 2005

Journey Within: A Healing Playbook

By Jeannette Drake

Journey Within: A Healing Playbook is a fun tool for anyone interested in personal growth, learning how to be more creative or gaining a deeper insight into The Divine. Section One includes 13 original color abstracts that invite the viewer to intentionally go on a playful, inner journey. An optional guide of play instructions is included.

In Section Two the author's spiritual autobiography provides an inspirational explanation for each drawing.

This Book Is for Someone You Love!

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update 3 August 2008

 

 

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