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Tell Me Where
The Trees Find Shelter?
By
Paula M. Patton-Ross
Book
Review
Opening
with a monologue dedicated to and demonstrative of a woman's
spirit, this untitled poem is indicative of the authors' amazing
ability to capture through short stories and prose how
effortlessly some relationships can absorb the identities of the
'giving' 'dedicated' creature - Woman. Through child-rearing,
homemaking and wifery, selflessness comes first.
The
lamentful poems "Just An Inch Below The Lace, I'll Just Go
Hungry" and the conscience seering expose on domestic
violence aptly titled "Why She Stays?" take you into
the passageway of the faint pulsating hearts struggling to
continue its distribution of 'love unconditional' in the wake of
its being misunderstood. This book is a journey of diligence and
sacrifice to avoid failing 'Love'.
"Tell
Me Where The Trees Find Shelter?" is illuminated by the
symbiotic genius of N.Chaz Bowie II 's digital artistry.
His images compliment "Out Of Breath And Climbing That
Hill", "Eclipsed Honey'd Moon", "See-Saw
Marjorie Daw (The Games)" and "...And So She
Dreams", the four chapters which categorically showcase
every emotion experienced in intimate relationships. The
book is a must-read oeuvre; and epistle heralding to wives,
husbands, children included about how we take for granted and
'shelve' the Id until its spirit begins to whimper—Tell Me Where
The Trees Find Shelter?
Source:
Tell Me Where
The Trees Find Shelter?
Paula Marguerite
Patton-Ross ( b. 1955)
is a new ‘poetic engineer’ emerging onto the literary
scene with her latest child of passion “Tell Me Where The
Trees Find Shelter?”. The
author was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Having been environed and socialized by the ‘vietnam
war’, and the struggles for “black equality” her
conclusion “love is under-emphasized” has been the rationale
for her picking up pen and paper.
Her writings are empathetic “spirit identifies with
spirit” with deliberative words she makes plain her emotions,
equalizing and linking them to those of her readers, a
connecting- the -dots for the nature in all of us that
internalizes.
Married to her husband of
32 years and mother of six (which she refers to as 4 rivers and
2 streams) she lives a quiet life on a ranch in Tonopah Arizona.
“I can see the stars now… and they tell me
of…things.” The writer fills her days
with writing. She
says “I write, and I write and when I can take a break, I
write and if I get the time to… I write.
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