San Antonio Romance Authors offers special conference for writers

San Antonio Romance Authors offers special conference for writers

Tony Bowls | Item View

Tony Bowls | Item View

For the Love of... A Great Poem

In my senior year of high school, my English teacher asked us to write something -- anything -- to submit for our yearly "magazine". It consisted of creative or artist entries by all of us Seniors. So, I dug up a poem I had written because I was inspired during my freshman year when I was 14. While I think I can write, I've never thought that I was much of a poet but this one poem has always stayed with me. It's spectacular writing. I thought so when I wrote it, when I gave it to my teacher, when it was accepted into the magazine and even when I read it again tonight.

Question...With No Answers

Why is happiness so easy to grasp
Yet so hard to hold?
How can love so brief
Pay such a heavy toll?
Why do you walk away
When you know you should stay?
Why is a broken heart
So full of fears,
And bright eyes
Filled with tears?

How do you tell the difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul?
How do you go back
When yesterday seems so cold?
But how can you go forward
When the future is untold?

When will you realize that yesterday is gone
And tomorrow has yet to come?
When will you know
That to forget is to forgive
And to survive is to live?

For the love of... Getting to know me better, part 2

- I'm the oldest of 4 children.

- I believe God gave me a son so that I wouldn't give up on and/or hate men completely.

- If I could do anything in the world, I would write, take pictures, and make a book out of the two.

- Instead, I decided to go to school to be a Court Reporter.

- I type 75 to 80 wpm (on the keyboard).

-- I'm still working on the 225 wpm requirement to be a Court Reporter. (225 wpm on a stenography machine)

- I love a song by Brian Ferry called Slave to Love.

- I don't cry much. I just get angry.

- I believe that there is a difference between pissed off, mad, angry, and furious.

- I want to be CONTENT in my happiness.

- I wear only one perfume: 212 by Carolina Herrera.

- My closest girlfriends I've had since High School. All 3 of them. Actually, one I've known since 5th or 6th grade when we were in the Girl Scouts together.

- They're all married.

- I'm very impatient. And stubborn.

- I once had a boyfriend who said to me, "You have an iron will that I can't break." He wasn't my boyfriend for too much longer after that.

- One guy I dated accused me of not having TEAR DUCTS because I never cried. LOL (This was also the same guy who cried on our first date talking about his son!!)

- I feel enormous amounts of guilt that I failed in giving my child a good father.

- I do not feel obligated to find him a replacement, though.

- I don't think that biology amounts to a hill of beans when it comes to child-rearing.

- I was born in Texas.

- I love the fact that I'm a Texan.

- My dream house has a darkroom in it.

- I scrapbook, knit, crochet, quilt and cross-stitch. 

For the love of... Getting to know me better

- I can't sing. - I've only been in love once in my life and it was a disaster. - I'm a single mother. - I hate the term "single mother" because it somehow implies that I'm handicapped or incapable of raising a child. - I'm a great mother. - I believe in God. I believe that he has a dreamer bigger for me than I could ever dream for myself. - I still have NO clue what that dream is. - I LOVE kissing. - I've had 25 sexual partners. - I've never been married. - I've never even been close to getting married. - My absolute favorite band in the world is a little band from Seattle called QUEENSRYCHE. - I take a lot of crap for this. - Their music moves me. Just a sampling of their lyrics: Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound. Raindrops taste like tears, without the pain. - I'm great at being sexual. Not so good when it comes to intimacy. - I watch the Oprah Winfrey Show EVERY day. - I LOVE MY DVR!!!!!!!!! - My mother is American. My father is Iranian. Living in Texas, my whole life people think I'm Mexican. - I miss the days when MTV and VH1 actually played MUSIC!! - I have a lot of walls around my heart and soul just begging to come down for the right person. - Still trying to figure out how to spot the right person. - I hate it when people tell me that they will call me back and don't. - I used to be a very ballsy, take-no-shit kind of girl. I've mellowed with age. - I don't feel old. Just disconnected. - I hate checking my email and not having any. - I want a man who is strong, secure, communicative, smart and will give me a swift kick in the ass when I need it. - I LOVE to have the sides and back of my neck kissed and nibbled. That gets me SO hot!! - I've broken all of my vibrators. - I need a new one.