Poetically Correct

by Sincerely Yours

Overview

I (sincerely yours) have learned in life that with great discomfort and misunderstanding comes great change. With this change, everyone tries to be as politically correct as possible, but they neglect to truly understand or embrace the evolution and passion of humanity and the human consciousness. Through great meditation, I came up with the title Poetically Correct because it fully describes the nature of thought and evolution of humanity. These poems are the embodiment of that. With all power to God, the universal energy or greater power, I intend to express the best way I can the conscious thought that has been given to me throughout my life. Under the United States First Amendment, I exclusively exercise my rights to freedom of speech. These are the thoughts, views, and internal consciousness of sincerely yours.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781546252061
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	07/20/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	140
File size:	239 KB

About the Author

Sincerely Yours is a single African-American male author born and raised in North Charleston, South Carolina. During his life, he has experienced many different trials and tribulations, and he has vowed to express his prospective through poetry. His goal is to provide a retrospective outlook toward many of the tribulations of the world so that his readers will have clarity, enlightenment, and most of all, acceptance in light of the issues that are relevant today.

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CHAPTER 1

Cover Girl

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, vii,
Cover Girl, 1,
Stardust, 3,
Just one more sip, 5,
Bullets, 7,
Strictly for My Intellectuals, 8,
Hiatus, 10,
What a Joke, 12,
Brother of the Night, 14,
Sincerely Yours, 15,
Broken Traffic Light, 17,
Another day on the set, 19,
Last Call, 21,
My Life, 23,
Deja Vu, 25,
Overload, 27,
Oxymoron, 29,
2.0, 31,
Distant Lover, 32,
What happened that night?, 34,
My love for Cover Girl, 35,
In this Vessel, 37,
Missing you in my morning, 39,
A night with Sin, 40,
The Office, 43,
A Savage Love, 45,
A Scarlet Rose, 47,
Pages in Jhene's Diary, 50,
Two Spirits, 53,
Love is silent, 54,
Everything but the Sunshine, 57,
What I do for you?, 59,
Something about you, 61,
My Wife, My Love, My Everything, 63,
The Little Things, 65,
Miss Identity, 68,
Imperfections, 70,
Blurred Lines, 72,
Epiphany of Love, 74,
Computer love, 77,
Washing away Sin, 78,
Faith, 80,
Vengeance, 82,
Just imagining, 85,
Address to Sender, 87,
Black and White, 89,
Forbidden Fire, 91,
Reintroducing Foreplay, 95,
A Sunlit Sunset, 97,
Her Life's Lines, 99,
My Element of Completion, 101,
What is our language?, 103,
Apple Juice, 105,
At World's End, 107,
Ghost Writer, 109,
Glitter and Lights, 111,
"For your eyes only", 113,
Recipe for love, 118,
Vulnerable, 120,
Sailing out, 123,
Stormy Waters, 124,
Lazarus Pit, 126,
State of Consciousness, 128,
About the Author, 131,

Editorial Reviews

2018-09-18

A self-help book offers teachings from an addiction recovery facility.

Beit T'Shuvah is a residential treatment center in California that is also a synagogue. Although addicts need not be Jewish to live there, events like Friday night Sabbath services are regular occurrences. Borovitz (Finding Recovery and Yourself in Torah, 2016, etc.) and Bergman (Nolo's Deposition Handbook, 2018, etc.) assert that the goal of the facility is to lead everyone who enters, regardless of religious beliefs, to "a richer and more meaningful life," albeit attaining that objective is not always an easy task. At the helm of the operation is Borovitz, a man who has had his own struggles with addiction and who has spent time in prison. The main crux of the book consists of his "ten spiritual commitments," which are based on the Ten Commandments but also borrow from the teachings of Alcoholics Anonymous. These are concepts such as the fourth commitment, which encourages individuals to regularly assess their actions with "spiritual inventories." Generally, readers are encouraged to take careful stock of their lives and seek improvement, even if it means becoming only one "grain of sand" better each day. The volume also features testaments from former residents of Beit T'Shuvah and others who have been involved with the organization. At under 200 pages, the book moves quickly, and it certainly delivers a unique perspective on spiritual self-help. Life lessons stemming from an addiction facility steeped in Judaism constitute an intriguing niche, and the counsel given is both practical and humble. But the manual would have benefited from a deeper embrace of its unusual angle. The statements from former residents are concise and often blunt (one ex-patient refers to his past self as "an addicted loser"), but they leave many questions. For instance, what was it like for a non-Jewish, recovering addict to attend Friday services for the first time? How did one's experience at Beit T'Shuvah compare to other facilities? Nevertheless, the work deftly illustrates that people's spiritual journeys, whether they suffer from addictions or not, are not easy. And who better to give advice than those who have traveled on some particularly rocky roads?

While it delivers an inviting spiritual approach, this guide could use additional personal details.

Kirkus Reviews