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| Poet Ricardo A. Owens |
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| His latest book, 'Abstract Beyond Vision' |
This month's featured Author is Poet Ricardo A. Owens. Owens hails from Tennessee. Ricardo uses the power of the spoken word to paint pictures. His poems deal with real topics, ranging from relationships to dealing with life's everyday storms.
Get to know Ricardo:
Hello I am Ricardo A Owens, published Author-Poet of Abstract Beyond Vizion.
In Abstract Beyond Vizion, I speak of lifes realities from many different views, from experiences; things seen and overlooked to things not talked about.
As a child at the age of four years old, I had a brain tumor and a stroke during surgery. I took physical therapy until I was sixteen years old. From the stroke and tumor, I was left partially paralyzed on my left side for the rest of my life. I experienced two more strokes at the age of nineteen and twenty three old.
Going through these things has caused me to deal with life changes and struggles, being tried, despised, and criticized.
My experiences stem from childhood and continue even until today. But I won't let anything stop me. I've learned to use these things as motivation and strength to make me who I am today. The person I am today is a reflection of things I went through and endured making me a stronger person, with ambitions and drive to overcome trial. This same strength and ambition I obtain, I share with others hoping to be an inspiration and motivation to someone else.
Hopefully that person can be you, the reader.
You can purchase the book from my website: www.ricardoaowens.com
You can email me as well: xoticafrica @ yahoo.com
Here's a sample of my work:
Matrimony
Being part of a world that we all must live in
but at the same time having ways that seem to be different
instead of living according to the ways of the world
you live by your own rules & regulations,
like an animal in it’s own habitat
living by it’s own culture
living by it’s own mannerism,
understood by few
misunderstood by many
set out to be misguided and mislead,
but proceed to make your own way instead of following
the misleading
as on with my journey I’m proceeding
obtaining strength from those against my being
Criticized
Unjustified living in a world
Expected to commit suicide
Married onto a state which can’t be escaped
Matrimony
