Pow Wow Poetry Debut

Hi there Everyone!!

I wanted to share with you the first poem I was brave enough to read from my book in front of a live audience. Monumental seems to be too small of a word to even describe the feeling I had as I began to read. For those of you who know me, you probably understand the intense amount of fear that radiated throughout my veins as I read. Before I get to the poem, I wanted to first send a warm shout out to the folks of P.O.W W.O.W. If you are unfamiliar with these ladies, they are a poetry group that meets every Tuesday! … I repeat every Tuesday! Pow wow is comprised of amazingly talent women, artists, mothers, sisters, daughters, activists, survivors, poets, lesbians, dreamers, teachers, and most importantly family.. I whole heartedly thank C. C. Carter , Jackie Anderson, and the many others who help to provide this safe heaven for many women through out Chicago. I’m not sure what made me read this poem, but here it goes:

POETIC MEMOIRS: A Poets Journey of Discovery © By: Victoria J

Optical Illusions 2011©

Fade in: Mirages and false like personalities surround us daily. Our judgment clouded by the many hallucinations and optical illusions we call alleys. Unreal persons and synthetic connections produce pretend stories collaborated to mock the truth. Because truth is, the delusion of being false can tarnish anyone’s reputation of being real.

Stay true to reality.. Because in fantasy we can all parish to the enormity of imperfection… For these imperfections become magnified and then they outshine the beauty of being humanly flawed. And if we are indeed created in the image of the most high, shouldn’t we all be considered equally lacking or insufficient.

So instead of truth searching, you decide to neglect the presence of fact and you continue to rely on other people’s interpretations of what is. Therefore creating figments to everyone’s imagination. Now leaving everything to be decoded…

Let’s be real.. We have all had dreams. We have all saw what we wanted to see instead of what was there..

But at some point.. Its time to stop imaging. Its time to stop dreaming. Its time to be real.

Your continued vow to un-loyalty makes you an image of unwanted deception.

You too shall now fade along with the images off in the distance.

Because the thing about optical illusion and mirages that make them less threatening is…. UP CLOSE..they prove to be fake.

Their whole existence become absent at the sight of..

TRUTH … :Fading out

Well that was it!.. I hope you enjoyed!
~Vjay