She

Sharena Lee Satti

• Publisher: Verve Poetry Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781912565894
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

The poems in She cover an already long career as an inspiring live poet, host and workshopper – it is obvious straight away that Sharena has produced a formidable body of work. Her poems are real, raw and honest, addressing issues such as survival, cultural-identity, life's battles, self-love, body dysmorphia and many other subjects that people struggle to speak out about. Her love of nature is also evident. She rights with her emotions to the fore and her heart at the centre – with a power that can leave you breathless.

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A Recipe To Understanding Her

You need an open heart, as open as the universe

Your love needs to be resilient like the darkness of a curse

You need a few drops of sweetener

For when she’s feeling bitter

Or she will frazzle your brain like a 5G transmitter

Usually around the full moon or her pmt

She needs a few days of silence where she can be

Her own tidal wave or crashing sea

You will need a course in crash landing

When you feel she is becoming too demanding

It’s a trigger, she’s silently seeking your attention

Something she has not yet mentioned,

Because she’s feeling a little raw

A little insecure and she needs a spoonful of your warmth

On her forehead, your soft lips just resting there

In that silence she knows you care

She needs a life time of truth, not even a droplet of a lie

Always best to reply with the truth

You need to smile more, make her laugh daily

Joke and be silly, act a little crazy

Look in her eyes whenever she looks in yours

Just pause, for a few seconds, embrace this moment

Leave the window to the soul open

Like an ocean, let it pool over your soul

Take control of that ego

And know when you let love flow

You leave that window open, to understand her better

She’s the one your heart chose

Treasure that you met her.

Broken Branch

I am the broken branch that falls alone

Leaving life as I knew it, to enter the unknown

Not protected by the roots that once enriched my soul

To the beholder, that didn’t see the power or control

I am the broken branch that’s fallen with dying leaves

Still clinging to life, rustling in the breeze

Drinking from the soil and the open clouds

An outcast amongst the trees

Trying to survive the loneliness, the whispers in the night

From the decaying poison that breeds after daylight

I am the broken branch that still has the will

To live, to grow from the nothing that I have become

Scattered broken pieces and a restless heart so numb

For I am the nothing, you said I’d become

With roots that blossom when I breathe

And leaves that grieve when they fall

I am everything and all you said I wouldn’t be

I stand, re planted in the dirt you throw at me

Tiny petals forming on the stem of my body

I am not the broken branch that fell to the floor

Or your empty words of nothing, I am more

More than you could ever possibly see

Because when you look at me

You only see things visually

Always using your one angle perspective

To show how affective your power can be

Leaving a broken branch

You thought you had destroyed me

Yet for me to be free I had to fall.

A Connection

An invisible wave, a flowing energy

A light inside that’s penetrating me

It’s the comfort of your silence in a place

That I no longer feel alone, a space

Carved with your imprints

Imbedded into my thoughts

That you fully support me

It’s the cloudy haze

I feel when you steal my soul

Blinded by my emotions, I lose control

Of me, I cannot see

Clearly, all I see is a blank space

A midnight sky, a super full moon

Illuminated by flickers of light

You spark up this appetite

Leaving this hunger, this deep longing to be

Youy crashing wave, your echo in the sea

I want to be, your colour changing sky

When night falls, the red sky swirls into blue

And the last of the light shines through

I want to be stood right beside you

It’s our connection, our invisible emptiness of

Craziness, of fantasy and fiction

You are my addiction, my galaxy away from earth

You are the key to my rebirth

The light inside of me

It’s our connection, this invisible energy

Linking these roots that are pulling me

To you.

Only Today

Who says tomorrow is promised?

Not a soul if I’m honest, life is never promised

Most live to buy a house, a car or fund a degree

Set a date for a wedding and start a family

It’s how we are programmed to be

To live our life systematically

What if today was our last and the ending was never forecast

Can you truly say you have embraced each and every day?

Will your good deed...

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• from Testing Times
• from Broken Chains
• from Unapologetic
• New poems
• Brand new poems
• Thankyous
• About Verve Poetry Press