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Gifts From Above
Written by Dawn Iva DeBerry-Wright
Edited by Mr. Lynn Gipson
Copyright 2013
ISBN # 978-09840379-8-8
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February 2014
THE INSPIRATION: Dawn Iva’s love for expressing herexperiences is a true gift from God and she is able to share it withall through writing. Her writings of fiction and non-fiction arepositive, and heartfelt. This has afforded her to become a knownPoet Laureate amongst her peers, her church family and theVeterans she cares for at the Manhattan VeteransAdministration, where she has worked for 30 years.
Gifts FromAbove
written by
Dawn Iva DeBerry�Wright
TABLE OF CONTENTS
POETRY FROMTHE HEART AND SOUL
1. A Gift From Above 2. After The Crying 4. All In One Year5. America’s Leading Hypocrites7. American’s Must Respect Each Other, Regardless of Race,
Creed or Color8. By His Stripes9. Call Jesus 10. Challenges11. Educate Our Young12. Ever Since the Day We Met13. Fall14. My Friend15. My First True Love17. My Joy, My Pain19. My Man20. God Remembers and He Knows 22. The Golden Key23. Help Us Lord24. I Will Always Remember 9/11/0125. Life’s Thanksgiving26. Lonely27. Love Is28. Love, Trust, and Understanding29. Passing Elegance30. The Pervade of My Heart31. Please Lord Grant Me Gifts32. Rest Yourself33. Spring Joy34. Thank You For Caring 35. Thanksgiving36. Time, Time, Time37. A Vision of Truth38. Well Done39. What the American Flag Means To Me41. When I Look Into Your Eyes42. When We’re Apart43. Window of the Soul44. My Wish45. Unconditional Bliss46. Writing, Reciting, and Delighting in Poetry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
POETRY OF NAMES AND EVENTS
48. Adrina
49. Angel Voice
50. Anthony’s Prayer
51. Babies
52. Benjamin Wright Jr.
53. Birth
54 Cainella and Abella
55 Darryl Lee
56 Dawn Iva DeBerry
57 Dental Assistant’s
58. Emanuel
59. Family
60. Father’s Day
61. My Father, My Daddy
62. My Father and Mother-in-Law
63. The Gatekeeper
64. Grammy, We Love You
65. Juanita F. James
66. Mr. Lynn
67. Marquita’s Journey
68. Mothers
69. Nieto (Grandson)
70. Our Pastor
71. Prayer
72. Proverb
73. Valerie Moore
74. Shamdu
75. Our Veterans
76. Women
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BALLAD POETRY FROM THE HEART FICTION ANDNON-FICTION
78. Because I Gained Weight
80. Black Faces
82. Black Is The Face Of Our Motherland Past
84. The Gigolo
86. Hola! Mi Nombre Es La Cocaina
89. Imagination
91. A Message To A Junkie
93. A Muslim Pimp
103. T’was the Christmas the Government Wanted
107. A Visit From Mr. Nick
111. You Don’t Walk In My Shoes
113. You Just Don’t Qualify
POETRY FROM THE HEARTAND SOUL!
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GIFTS FROM ABOVE
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GIFTS FROM ABOVE
A GIFT FROM ABOVE
I know now my Love.
I know now you were sent from above.
Time will tell what both of us feel, but until then,
I’ll think of this love as more than just real.
Every morning I wake-up,
it feels like you’re right by my side,
and I’d be praying you haven’t grown wings,
and flown the blue outside.
So since you are attracted to me
and sent to me from the God we both Love.
I’ll always think of you my Love,
as a precious gift from above.■
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Dawn Iva
“AFTER THE CRYING”
So now what?!... What happens after the crying and after the pain???
What have we learned??? What have we gained???
Is it knowledge to teach one, and be an example each day!?
Or do we let sinful pride seep into our souls and lock us away***…
Do we say to our loved ones,
“Honey, I tell you this from my heart, because I love you and I know”…
Or do we go about our busy schedules as we always do,
like things can only happen on a T.V. show***…
So now what?!... What happens after the crying and after the pain???
What have we learned??? What have we gained???
Dawn Iva
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THE WRITER: Born Dawn Iva DeBerry in Bronx New York grew
up in Brooklyn. She is an accomplished Singer, Songwriter,
Toastmaster and Trumpeter, playing with the famed Jazz Band
Group of the 70’s Brass Construction, where she and her
classmates graduated from the high school Thomas Jefferson,
in East New York, Brooklyn. Dawn Iva loves to teach and
volunteer her time giving back to Gods people what he has
given to her. She has remarkably put herself through college at
a late age in her life after single parenting her two children and
being the caretaker for many of her family members and
friends. She has her degree in Community Health and
Counseling, and will soon continue furthering her education,
with more experiences to write about, because God is allowing
the journey to continue.
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