author - "Kennedy Brazier"
A practical yet fascinating poetry collection that interprets the Sources of the Soul with an analogy of life through nature and the variety of individuals that one can encounter along life’s path. An enlightenment into the vibrations of our environment; the sources that make us who we are; illuminates all existence in this extraordinary read. It can relatively engage even the most distracted reader to a calmer and higher perception of intellect and self empowerment.
It is the existence surrounding us each day that creates the energy to move us forward and excel to life’s greatest rewards. Whether we find the tranquility and triumph in the simplicities of a rainfall with a Subtle Symphony or acknowledge the aging peddler on the street corner, no longer the successful Hustler, every living form provides a generous story for life's journey. If we listen and look close enough, everything we encounter are Sources of the Soul…
Wake Me Up Before I Die, is the first book in the Trilogy of the trials and tribulations of the Lureaux Family. Book I introduces Johnny Lureaux in the 1930’s as a young child in Selma, Alabama and the extraordinary circumstances he must face just to stay alive. Facing death as an Alabama illegitimate child, through an abusive Grandmother, an early marriage and then into the mindset of a sniper in the Korean Conflict, Johnny Lureaux will ignore every chance he is given, in each life he is awarded, with repetitive bad choices. In Book I, the final roles of his 27 years of life, as a South-side Chicago bandit and a young father, will fall under the darkness of the deceitful life he has chosen. As the Blackfoot’s song of his past echoes in the distance, death soars with the giant blackbird over him. It is final and as Johnny fights to discover the connection of his past to his presence, he will be transcended into the unity of Life and Death. In the place between body and spirit he prays for a new existence and screams to PLEASE WAKE ME UP BEFORE I DIE!
A practical yet fascinating poetry collection that interprets the Sources of the Soul with an analogy of life through nature and the variety of individuals that one can encounter along life’s path. An enlightenment into the vibrations of our environment; the sources that make us who we are; illuminates all existence in this extraordinary read. It can relatively engage even the most distracted reader to a calmer and higher perception of intellect and self empowerment.
It is the existence surrounding us each day that creates the energy to move us forward and excel to life’s greatest rewards. Whether we find the tranquility and triumph in the simplicities of a rainfall with a Subtle Symphony or acknowledge the aging peddler on the street corner, no longer the successful Hustler, every living form provides a generous story for life's journey. If we listen and look close enough, everything we encounter are Sources of the Soul…
Wake Me Up Before I Die, is the first book in the Trilogy of the trials and tribulations of the Lureaux Family. Book I introduces Johnny Lureaux in the 1930’s as a young child in Selma, Alabama and the extraordinary circumstances he must face just to stay alive. Facing death as an Alabama illegitimate child, through an abusive Grandmother, an early marriage and then into the mindset of a sniper in the Korean Conflict, Johnny Lureaux will ignore every chance he is given, in each life he is awarded, with repetitive bad choices. In Book I, the final roles of his 27 years of life, as a South-side Chicago bandit and a young father, will fall under the darkness of the deceitful life he has chosen. As the Blackfoot’s song of his past echoes in the distance, death soars with the giant blackbird over him. It is final and as Johnny fights to discover the connection of his past to his presence, he will be transcended into the unity of Life and Death. In the place between body and spirit he prays for a new existence and screams to PLEASE WAKE ME UP BEFORE I DIE!