3-D Joy By C. A. Butts

3-D Joy

By Carolyn A. Butts

I want to experience something

beyond the convenience of packaged

consumer life

Want to shed

the cell phone,

disengage my e-mail

and cable systems

Want to meditate with trees,

sample unpackaged love,

the kind of love that quickens

your heart and makes your mind

e x p a n d

I want to know 3-Dimensional Joy

the kind our fathers and mothers

called pain for gain

the kind of grit that builds character

and wisdom

there is no pain now, no joy

just the emptiness from being

disconnected disembodied and

disengaged

In a world filled with connections to every place

but the soul

Carolyn Butts has been writing poetry and prose since she was ten years old. Extremely shy as a child, she saw writing as a way of communicating and expressing herself. It was a way out of her shell. Carolyn explains, "I used to be so shy that I had one best friend and she would ask the teachers if I could use the bathroom because I was so afraid of raising my voice and speaking in public. I was the kid who sat in the back or front of the class and never said a word. But I heard all." Since then Carolyn has shed her shyness and published African Voices Magazine, a NY based literary magazine which has featured the work of many established and upcoming writers and visual artists. Carolyn is also working on her own poetic debut, "God's Pen." check her website www.carolynabutts.com or www.africanvoices.com.