The Truth as I See It
By JHart
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JHart
I attended Tennessee State University and U.T. Nashville. I was married and divorced at an early age with 4 children, so single parenting taught me a lot about living life on faith and hard work. Poetry and words became my best friends and my outlet of expression.I continue to write and enjoy life trials through God,laughter, and prayer.
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The Truth as I See It - JHart
The Truth As I See It
JHart
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These pages are filled with the poetics words that I have lived my life by through the years. I have tried to separate my poetry into the stages of my life. It is my hope that as you read through the verses, you will find yourself, and say I remember when I went through that. I called my first work of poetry
The Truth as I see it", because it is my truth as I have lived it. If you find yourself, or recognize yourself, it is purely coincidental, and though we might have collided in time or space of our existence, it is not recognized here. I give thanks to my Creator, who gave me the gift of words. Somewhere between creating me, and my being birthed, He left me with something very precious, the ability to know that life is never-ending, and that if I am the beginning of 360 degrees of Karma, then you my brother or sister, you are the end.
Somewhere in my mind around 1968, I started thinking about writing this book of poetry. I think I was sixteen at the time, and was totally caught up in the Black power movement. I wanted to be a strong black woman, so every opportunity I got, I was marching. I remember being the youngest at twenty-four in a group of pioneers who were members of the Tennessee Black Caucus, and the NAACP. I can remember riding with them on the bus to the Solidarity Day March, in Washington, D.C., in the seventies and early eighties. I wore my afro proudly, and though I was young, I wanted to make a difference. I did not use names intentionally, but it was a group of us, who met every week, not just to create change, but to have fun also. We started at Lil Abner
, went to Saturday’s restaurant and lounge, and near the end of our friendships, we ended up hanging out at Park Avenue. If you live in Nashville, you know these places very well. I said near the end of our friendship, because when my lovely friend died, it was the end of a saga? I had no need to go to Jefferson Street, for I knew I would never see her fighting for our rights anymore, or handing out voter registrations cards on Lafayette Street, in South Nashville or urging people to vote. I can remember going from door to door with a petition to get people to urge Metro government, to make McHarry