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    42 and Counting...
    42 and Counting...
    42 and Counting...
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    42 and Counting...

    By Angeli Sweeney

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    42 and Counting

    A collection of original poetry completed by Angeli Sweeney. The poetry she has chosen to share is an expression of her own personal evolution. Presented in a loose chronological order, they are an insight into Angeli's search for the 7 principles of Maat; Truth, Justice, Harmony, Balance, Order, Reciprocity and Propriety at different points of her life.

    The number 42 has a special meaning, relating to the 42 Laws of Maat: the moral rules and beliefs that guided behaviour of Auset and all the people of Ancient Kemetic Society. Also the Earth year number age of the author when this book was published. Her poems consist of observations, life lessons, dream content and commissioned pieces. Angeli chooses to share her work in the hope that it will inspire others searching for their own individual guiding principles.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAngeli Sweeney
    Release dateAug 6, 2020
    ISBN9781005667658
    42 and Counting...
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    Angeli Sweeney

    Angeli 'Angel' Sweeney is a talented artist, poet and writer, who has been writing relentlessly since her adolescent days. Her songs and poems are effortlessly powerful messages, full of meaning, yet light and uplifting at the same time. People say, she lives up to her namesake; Messenger.

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      42 and Counting... - Angeli Sweeney

      42 and Counting…

      By Angeli Sweeney

      Copyright 2020 Angeli Sweeney

      Published by Angeli Sweeney at Smashwords

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favourite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      For Mama and Nana; my grandmothers.

      Whose spirits walk with me daily and teachings are never far from heart.

      Table of Contents

      The Pattern

      Now

      The Sunshine

      Love don’t live here

      Your Love Tried to Kill Me

      This Skin

      Sacrifice

      Running

      Mama’s Hands

      Hidden Colours

      Community

      Black Water Original

      So Blue

      The Tide

      The Lakes

      Black Love

      Growth

      Poetry Writes Me

      Baobab

      The Bridge

      The Empress’ New Clothing

      Accessibility

      Self-Love

      Draw For the Sage

      Seventy Breaths

      Chilling on the Corner

      Mother’s Day Card

      Upcycled

      Mitochondria Mama

      Dream

      Simple

      Good Thing

      Ancestral Healing

      Some Days

      Strong Words

      Away

      This Loss

      Permission

      Ballistics

      I Know

      Kintsugi Heart

      Reasons to be happy

      FOREWORD

      Angeli is a poet who I have seen for many years perform her poetry with integrity and wisdom and the knowledge of one who lives in a real world while observing it at the same time. It was a privilege to be asked to write a small foreword for this online collection.

      I feel connected to the everyday circumstances that she writes about, it has a connectability that spans generations. When she speaks the words, the words speak back to your heart. You find yourself in many of the stories she paints with her poetry. Angeli’s Poetry, draws you to place of remembrance empathy. It fires you up to not stand for rubbish to recognise the world is a place that still needs to change and grow, and be better.

      Angeli Sweeney’s poetry is about challenging your perceptions of the world. This new collection, I know will speak to your heart and will bring understanding in times of trouble, it will give you an insight into the poet’s world. Quintessentially, poetry is filled with an understanding of the human condition and all of its facets.

      Shirley May – Young Identity

      The Pattern

      Hearts resonating

      Souls vibrating

      Minds oscillating

      Patiently waiting

      For this frequency

      This energy

      That represents

      The highest part of me

      Asking the universe to guide my steps

      And I'm so ready to move my feet

      So ready to move to this beat

      So ready to feel complete, complete

      Feeling Syncopated

      Feeling Elevated

      No longer frustrated

      I'm accommodated

      Cup is overflowing

      God is clearly showing

      Me the way of knowing

      Think I know where I'm going

      Wake every morning glowing

      And every day I'm sowing

      Ready for the reaping

      This is my season

      Demonstrated synchronicity

      Shocks the hell out of me

      Touches a place in me

      That says this is the dream

      Ego is rebuked

      In the name of truth

      Now I’m getting used

      To a life so obtuse

      And abundant

      I see the pattern!

      Now

      It's taken me so long to get here

      Here

      Starts with a thought, a vision, a dream

      Here is the there

      Where I Am

      Now

      Once I started to let go

      It became so

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