Matters of the Mind

Fear is the static
Preventing me from hearing
My intuition

What I want is to
Act out of love and respect
For self and others

Most words
Have evolved through the
Descriptions of our outside world
This leads to
Our inadequacy of words
To describe how we do feel
Inside

There may be no words
Adequate to describe what
I feel this moment

I am
Not responsible
For feelings but for my actions
Injunction
To feel unselfish is ideal
Impossible for me to
Achieve

My mind
Cannot know
What my body
‘Ought’ to feel
How could
It?

I am not afraid
Either to live or to die
My soul doth not cry

I will certainly
Doubt all my virtues unless
I accept my faults

Intelligence is seeing the world
As it is not as we see it
Through our inner shadows

When we
Learn acceptance
Of what we cannot change
It will illuminate our hearts
And souls




Our Destiny

This Earth,
Our cocoon,
Our classroom

Lessons learned,
Soul enhanced,
We break free


To soar into,
Our true life,
Our destiny

By

Joree Williams

 www.poetryandpublishing.com

Joree Williams Latest Caring Book

In this book she truly does share most of the emotions that she felt, during the last few years when five years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer which after radiation and removal of cancer tissue, thank God she survived. For they say if one survives breast cancer for 5 years, the cancer is defeated.

However, one year ago the breast cancer metastasized into bone cancer with additional nodules on her lungs and one on her thyroid gland. So this last year has been one of radiation and cancer chemo treatments, but through it all Joree says she still felt herself blessed by all the prayers said by family, friends and poet friends.

Believing prayer to be our most powerful means of communication, and just now the cancer is at a standstill being managed with chemotherapy shots once a month. But all through the years Joree never stopped writing her poetry, especially poems about her faith, which without she says she would never have survived.

Through faith she had the strength to face cancer all over again, faith gave her hope and also the acceptance, to belief and trust in Our Lord. All this she portrays in her book solely to try to help others realize too, that prayer is the most powerful of from all connections; prayers for others, prayers from others; the love that is felt; the healing that comes within and without.

Faith is all about love; love for others; love from others and mostly the love from Our Lord God above. That without faith she shows through her words how life would have no meaning. So all the poems within come from her belief that with prayer her words will hopefully touch upon another in any similar situation to help them and their heart and soul to find the faith that she has. For as well as being her rock she also says that; "Faith is just like the river of life; we all drink of it; some pollute it; and some cherish and tend to it."

I am very honored to be the first one to ever read this book, because I both formatted the manuscript and designed the cover and pictures within that help to enhance all the emotions and love Joree portrays. It is a book full of love of life and all things living, faith, hope and most of all love of God. Yes! Joree's love is seen through butterflies and her wonderful gift of phrasing words and creating poetic forms which she has dedicated to these beautiful creatures and to others.

Just hearing the word 'cancer' fills us with dread, so if cancer has touched you or anyone that is dear to you, then this book is a must read, for it will help you to understand the profundity of feelings that the one inflicted has to try to come to terms with, and hopefully give the one suffering the same strength that Joree has had to let her faith and great love of God show through!
Joree's words.."Know God always holds your hand in all that you do!"

Ariella, Ariella What a wonderful sounding name,
This is a book that ought to bring the author fame!
It's Spiritual its mystical it is everything that's good,
For Ariella talks to trees that are sentient in the wood!
She travels to Earth To talk to all the greats,
Philosophers and artists what a wonderful fate!
She goes back to see the slaversthat did others wrong,
Then she found out what it is to love and belong!
Ariella all will enjoy while learning in many ways,
As Ariella travels around the world for many days
Yes! This book is different it's one that I call a must,
One that you'll want to treasure until it turns to dust,
Now I feel I've been awarded with a honour you see,
For Dear Joree trusted her book to the Publisher me!

Pat Simpson @ P.F.P.

In her search to find the Universal Truth Ariella with the help of the Sentient Trees travels to many worlds where she encounters both joyous and horrendous beings in her Soul Seeking Search... This is a book that will take you right out of the world you are in ... into the vast Universe that is Ariella's.... This is a magical

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