WORDS OF WISDOM

Life's journey will take us to places we may have never imagined. It can be frightening and mysterious but, then again, that's the whole idea of self-discovery. 


~Genevieve

KEEP THEM GUESSING

SCRUPULOUS WRITER

VOICE

SHORT STORIES ARE JOURNEYS

WORDS OF WISDOM

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.


~Samuel Johnson, Writer (1709-1784)

ONE READER AT A TIME

WOMEN BEATS

The next book I will be reading.

WRONG TIME

AT THE BOTTOM

NOTEBOOK IS A MUST

NO PERFECT TIME

PLAYERS THEATRE

Located in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, the Players Theatre is one of the oldest commercial off-Broadway theaters.

The theatre was built in 1907 as a carriage house which serviced police horses. In the late 1950s, it was converted into a theatre. Actress Natalie Portman performed there in Ruthless in 1992. Britney Spears sang there in her younger days.

WORDS OF WISDOM

I never saw a bookstore that I did not go into.

~Genevieve

WRITE

A WAY BACK

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

CHATHAM- Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Virginia

THINKING AND MEDITATING BEFORE WRITING

EMPTY YOURSELF OUT

WORDS OF WISDOM

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

~Thomas Merton, Author, Monk (1915-1968)

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

TRENTON- Missouri, NewJersey

LONG POEMS

Over the past couple of weeks I have written a few long poems. A couple are two and three pages long. I recently read Allen Ginsberg's HOWL! I also have read WASTELAND by T. S. Eliot.

During this pandemic I have become more in tune with some very deep emotions. Long poems give me the platform to share them. I'll research more long poems.

VOICE

LIKE THIS

LANGSTON HUGHES CRITICS

I was reading about the many critics, black and white, of author Langston Hughes. What I surmise is that he gave an accurate description of the lives of the every day black person. He did not pick only the highlights. Hughes wrote of the struggles the average black citizen and what they did just to survive. He was open and honest in a time when it was safe to do so.

One of Langston Hughes's influences was another black poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar, who had is own critics. It seems that the black writer's harshest critics are other blacks. In my view, it boils down to not writing what they say you should write or being open and honest about what is really going on. If one is honest black life wasn't always a bowl of cherries. Coincidentally, Hughes, and Dunbar are two of my writing influences.

Langston Hughes wrote plays, short stories, prose, and essays besides poetry. I need to get some of his works and read up on his tremendous body of work. It's ironic that despite all the criticism Hughes endured, he's one of the most recognizable and revered poets of all time.

DONE THIS

WORDS OF WISDOM

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.


~Langston Hughes, Poet (1902-1967) 

POEM