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Shirley

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About Me


WWW.SHIRLEYHALLPOET.NETPeace is my cause and my virtue, freedom my title and theme. I am a hopeless romantic, undiscovered poet, amateur photographer, writer,and medicore musician who has found that the more I learn the further I stray from those things that are unseen or unheard. My longing for all those things I deserve but cannot have and all those things I have but cannot grasp enthralls me.I search for believers and non-believers who have learned the true meaning of playing a role without compromising oneself. Someone old enough to worry about it, yet young enough to laugh in one's face without insulting or degrading. I love without committing, and commit without making love. I'm a lover of the living, a day and nighttime dreamer, a songstress, a critic, an artist born neither sooner nor later, living in the "then" and the "will be", today existing on the sands of time.

Shirley Howard Hall - One Day

Kahill Gibran - Prophete

My Interests


Stay a while and lets talk peace, freedom, politics, relationships, diversity, and the support and respect of all mankind

"A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves"

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller

I'd like to meet:

"My best friend Mario, Non voglio perderti, senza di te n non voglio esistere"

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Governor Ann Richards, Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Lama, Benedita de Silva of Brazil, author Alice Walker, President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, the late Karl Marx, the late Eva Peron of Argentina,

Benazir Bhutto - Daughter of the East: An Autobiography

Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Infidel

Alice Walker - Possessing The Secret Joy

Benedita Da Silva - An Afro-Brazilian Woman's Story of Polit

Music:

Jazz, Classical, Opera, Foriegn atist, message music, international music, classical guitar, violin, and love songs in languages I can't understand.

Movies:

Shindler's List, Empire of the Sun, Out of Africa, The Prisoner, anything with Anthony Hopkins, Pride and Prejudice, Akela and the Bee, WIT-with Emma Thompson, documentaries

Television:

CNN, The BBC, IFC Movies, Sundance Movies, Boston Legal, House, CNN, MSNBC, Real Time With Bill Maher, HBO, Showtime and Sundance Documentaries

Books:



Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Ovid - The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics)

Heroes:

All of those whose lives were given or taken in the name of peace, love, god, freedom, equality, government and profit
Auschwitz HappenedAayan Hirsi Ali - Submission

My Blog

Poems - "Earth"

EARTH I come to you with no expectations of compassion or grandeur. In the twilight of my years I have learned to accept all things both great and small. I am the southern breeze of summer and the ...
Posted by Shirley on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:46:00 PST

New Poem "YOKED"

YOKED in a show of prowess they scalped me with rugged shears that pierced my scalp and left tiny circles of blood and skin matted together like a roadmap to the lifeI was leaving behind stripped do...
Posted by Shirley on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:35:00 PST

New Poem "ABORTUS"

ABORTUS no quickening no beginning feticide - the act abdominal muscles stifled uterine muscles hushed selective germination a resolution feigned embryo injections viability - fetal pain paralyze t...
Posted by Shirley on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:33:00 PST

New Poem: "CUCKOLD"

CUCKOLD betwixt her thighs encircling her nipples within her venter cascading her back   "désir sexuel" to be taken a coveting passion to be touched   hanging limp a spouse surrenders ...
Posted by Shirley on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:39:00 PST

New Poem: "I AM PREJUDICE"

I AM PREJUDICE I am prejudice bigotry discrimination I disseminate separatism racism and scorn blacks on the auction block Jews burning in furnaces slaughtered Armenians a blood-bathed trail of tear...
Posted by Shirley on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

New Poem "MORIBUND"

  MORIBUND should death be so forbearing as to call itself by name awakening the old and fragile from midsummer’s dreams should it appear in darkened rooms secreted and obscured i...
Posted by Shirley on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:50:00 PST

New Poem "JUDICIAL HOMICIDE"

  JUDICIAL HOMICIDE called apartheid labeled racism separatism defines its borders, in this place of bars and tasers iron and steal I’m hated dubious taunts in darkened rooms imposed con...
Posted by Shirley on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:19:00 PST

New Poem "GRANDÉ"

GRANDÉ Underarms flapping in a winter breeze gut gently touching my knees soft tits sagging and swaying at will nostrils that flair when I sneeze Waves of chin menace my oversized neck rings of fat f...
Posted by Shirley on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:09:00 PST

New Poem "SEVERED"

      SEVERED A putrid alliance decayed and rotted horrifying vistas monstrous fights traumatized parentage victimized lineage satirized offspring damaged deprived betrothed for con...
Posted by Shirley on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:23:00 PST

New Poem "COLLATERAL"

  COLLATERAL I lay here&. infant fingers and toes paralyzed bright red blood and urine soaking freshly washed sheets a ricochet bullet lodged within my head celestial beings besiege me "I'm n...
Posted by Shirley on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:21:00 PST