Smyrna, GA 30080
ph: 678-938-2208
hheyward
New Release
Fall 2009
Inspired Breath Ballet
My Mother’s Eyes, My Father’s Heart
Passion is my mother
vision is my father;
opportunity the playground
upon which they whirl.
I heard the cry of desire
ringing in an endless call;
a beggin’ moment that
whispered, I am here,
dance with me.
I silenced the audacity of
negative thoughts as we
waltzed beyond the hills,
beyond obstacles,
above the voice of inadequacy.
But when did I beckon him?
Was it through my tears
and frustration that opportunity
found me?
How did he know that being
both asleep and awake seared
the depths of me?
A restless mind trying
to birth a dream;
breaking through the chatty
whispers that claim, “she has no voice.”
I screamed into the dawn
awaiting my echo...but
his voice penetrated
the heaped darkness.
Every time I cried out
he answered.
He dreamed when I dreamed;
while transforming me beyond
my greatest illusion.
I loitered but I was never lost;
somehow, the vision was always there,
hidden among internal opposites;
one daring and alive; willing to take
a chance, the other afraid to
stray outside the lines.
But my soul cried out needing
to be free from the dangling
cords of life’s puppetry,
and the ache within my soul
that haunts me.
As much as hunger and thirst are
a part of living, my mother
has fed my hunger and my father,
my thirst; courage became the
journey...opportunity sprung forth
from seeds fed by sheer passion
and a poet was born.
©2008 Hasandra Heyward
"I like the way you capture many sides of an experience... It's the balancing of mother and father, hope and silence, movement forward and quiet waiting, subterranean yearning with full blown longing: very nice".
Dr. Malik (Psychologist)
"Don’t you understand that someone’s healing is in this great work?"
Tonya Hines, North Carolina
This site is dedicated to Alma L. McNeil, my grandmother. She ushered me into womanhood, taught me to love and how to give unconditionally. I honor her with this work.
" Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me."
--C. Fry
Take your most intense expression of the world, yourself, and the relation of the two and you will have the significance of poetry and how it adds to your experiences and ability to see the world with fresh eyes. This "artistic expression of the human mind" is taken to the next level by the poet of Poetry with
Purpose. She takes a basic idea, feeling, attitude, or inspiration and gives it a significance, a vision, a purpose. Her work open hearts and minds to the expanded range of the human experience and how poetry connects us to a greater work. Just as creatively as she takes the various emotions of love, fear and the appreciation for beauty and present those images concretely, she also has a vision for each project, as she expands that vision and makes it meaningful to her community.
Coming Fall 2009
Several times a year she will choose among a wide range of important issues and challenges such as environment, disaster relief, education and poverty and host Benefit Book Signings in hopes to make a significant contribution that makes a difference in the lives of others. Although, all of her projects are not charitable projects, the passion she brings to each assignment ignites the human spirit in a way that keeps on giving.
"Some how reading about the work you are doing fortifies me and gives me hope."
Rachel Carvosso (Tokyo)
Poet, Artist, Writer and Curator
Our Business
Poetry with Purpose inspires vision and gives meaning to why I write. I operate on the premise that creativity is not just in my words, but in the many ways I give back to my community. My vision is to use the gift of writing to do more than inspire.
My goal is to show the world that poets are people with purpose, vision, and a heart that inspires!
Hasandra
Services:
- Public Talks and Readings
- Benefit Book Signings
- Poetry Seminars that help participants find their authentic, creative voice and move from writers to authors.
- Writing Services for special occasions. The author's work has been used to assist counselors during sessions with drug addicted mothers and daughters, National Women's Lectureships, Marriage Retreats, Youth Conferences, Graduations, etc.
- Workshops for schools to help youth channel emotions.
Call Us Today!
Let us make your next occasion special. Tell us your vision and watch it come alive. Or, give us a reason to host a Benefit Book Signing project for your organization.
Please contact us anytime! We look forward to hearing from you.
If you are looking for a positive way to give back to your community support PWP by purchasing our books, or using our services. You will be giving and receiving in ways that will touch many lives. Just imagine, supporting an organization or cause, encouraging a poet, and giving yourself a gift at the same time. Call us and be INSPIRED!
Smyrna, GA 30080
ph: 678-938-2208
hheyward
