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AGAPE WISE ONES

Write Your Heart More Love and Joy

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Poetically Lift Your Cheer
​And Love Vibrations!

For anyone with or without any previous writing experience. You will gain skill in expressing your feelings and writing poems that radiate cheer and love!
Learn to create loving, cheerful  poems “just for you” or…

    DATES:  April 21 and 28, 2021
    TIME:  3:00 pm  5:00 pm via Zoom
    FEE:  $40 for both sessions 

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Excerpts from
​ Heart Balm~Just for You

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Charlotte Sista C Ferrell

I absolutely love the experience of writing tribute poems. It is a humbling, exciting, nurturing adventure in being open to the words Spirit reveals to capture qualities or aspects of a person's life. Writing something about someone provides an opportunity to activate the faith principle of “speaking those things that are not as if they were.” You can call forth something that someone may not even have seen in themself.
Charlotte Sista C Ferrell read excerpts from 4 different types of Tribute Poems at the Jan. 17, 2021 TAWO Ministry Meeting

Charlottes book, 
Heart Balm~Just for You is available for purchase. Click Here
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1. Tribute to a special “thing”

A Little Chocolate Now and Then

A little chocolate now and then,
Is a dangerous thing!
It can take you right around the bend
When it makes your belly sing… 
For more and More.
But if you do not heed the call,
And tell your belly, “Enough!”
The chocolate is no problem at all
Your shape and weight can hang tough 
If a little chocolate you can rebuff 
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Source: From Pillows to Pillars: Learn to put your problems Into poems and celebrate life’s little joys. By Charlotte Sista C Ferrell. Publisher AuthorHouse.

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2. Tribute to a Special Group –Sisters

               SISTA FRIENDS

Sista friends, Sista friends
Friends who are there at the end of the day
Those a call away, when disaster strikes,
When the big question gets popped,
The promotion finally comes through,
Or, when you are just feeling blue

Sista Friends know what time it is
You don’t need to constantly explain yourself
Even when you’re fronting
They smile and edge you on
But pull your coat when your slip is showing
Let you know if your hair is out of place
Before you step out on the stage in haste

Sista Friends call your kids theirs
They are not afraid to speak up
Whether you are overboard with spoiling
Or sharing the rod a little too much
They step in as aunties, extra moms, 
Grannies with a gentle touch.
Not crowding your authority,
But letting you know
They’ve got good intentions on their mind. 
An extra meal, one more pair of shoes
Are no big matter, they’d do it anytime!

Sista Friends, Sista Friends
Have got your back through thick and thin
When you move, they bring boxes
When you’re being moved, they move to step in
No streets for you, no shelters for you
They couldn’t sleep!
While they have a home –
You know, so do you 

Sista Friends, Sista Friends
Call you up to share good news
If soup is on sale
Or a good workshop is being held
They want you to get in on it too

Sista Friends, Sista Friends
Sometimes have to bury hatchets too
Errors are made, the wrong thing is said
But under God’s heaven a path has been made
Just be the one to say,” I’m sorry”, and
Know in your heart your sister is sorry too
 Let by-gones be gone to keep your friendship true


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3. Tribute to a special person

Hail Queen Sister Music Director
By Charlotte Sista C Ferrell 
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Hail Queen, Soul Sister Number One
Hail Mother, Friend, Marvelous Musical Director
Hail to the regal-voiced global lady, Rickie Byars.
Dr. Rickie Byars, precious daughter of God

Your left foot deftly pats two-four time; 
You make a slight nod and sax unwinds
Your right hand beacons five-part harmony to ascend
Then feet start flying and skirts swirling, 
You seed sweetness with a harmonious blend
You beam as your children, fosterlings, cherubs or stalwarts
Take to the stage, rocking the house from end to end

Your perfection is evident but none seem hard pressed
Joyfully artists venture from global mileposts to Agape steps
Unconditional Love powerfully drives your soul train
You move from Nepal through New York to Kuumba, among the best
Earnestly hugging folk making them all feel loved and blessed

Queenly, you shift from quiet to calmly stern
Situation by situation you discern which way to turn
Anointed composer, angelic vocalist, nurturing wife
What a Revelation is expressed throughout your life

I wrote and presented this tribute poem to “Rickie BB" at her KUUMBA birthday celebration, Oct. 10, 2010.

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4. Poem of Lamentation or Release

PAYING TRIBUTE TO YOUR SPIRIT, MAMA
By Charlotte Sista C Ferrell

I'm paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama
Paying tribute to your spirit of love, laughter
argument, and encouragement
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I'm paying to your Spirit, Mama
Now that you've gone
I told you that I love you, but it's not enough
The words are too few for the essence of You
I'm paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama

I'm paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama
Your tireless hands that fashioned new dresses
 when I longed for the ones at Macy's 
that cost more than Daddy made

I'm paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama
Your endless treks to sales, downtown, over town
To the Plaza, to wherever you could get:
Five pairs of shoes, five sets of clothes,
ten days of groceries on a postman's biweekly pay

I'm paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama
For facing freezing snowstorms, spending lonely nights at home
while your plight, to others, was generally unknown

I'm paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama
For ever reminding us to slow down and smell the roses, 
Do one thing at a time
Wait upon the Lord and 
Hear the quiet solutions He whispers at sunrise

I'm paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama
For the radiant way you faced the ravishes
of a painful, prolonged death
Defied depression and refused to cry
when the last strands of hair left
Set your vision on where you were going
rather than where you had been

I'm paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama
For the indirect beauty you let flow from within,
The loving way you dismissed me
to go back to my family
and accept The End

I'm paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama
For crossing the gulf between your Heavenly rest
 and this earthly test
To give me answers to the questions 
To stand at the finish line and cheer me on 
To coach the matches, the enemy would have won

I'm just paying tribute to your Spirit, Mama. 

Dedicated to the memory and appreciation of my Mama - Aljeane Brown Burleson:.


​Thank God for Fathers
© Charlotte Sista C Ferrell

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Thank God for fathers
Thank you for the fathers who have followed your Word
in fathering children
Those who have invited you into their relationships
Who have modeled your covenant in their family covenant

Thank you God
For fathers who have braved first the whip,
then the whip-like conditions of various workplaces
To put fruit in refrigerators. Beans in pots
Meat and bread on tables.
Thank you for those who aren’t to proud to
Serve delicacies to their families and friends

Thank you God
For our men who have been so misunderstood
Who media have scraped, sniped and discouraged
For their courage to own their own images
To re-claim their heritage
To master sports and sport top academic honors
To build careers and own businesses
To stand on point and bring up the rear
To wash little hands and mend broken hearts

Thank you God
For those men who lavish fatherly care on children not their own
Who have the courage and patience to deal with sour attitudes,
hot tempers and terrible tongues
Thank you God for those who step up to the plate
As coaches, mentors, teachers and friends
Who have the discipline to dry little girl’s and women’s tears
without twisting their lives

Thank you God
For the fathers who seek your face and presence within
Who invite you to walk with them. Who invite you to talk with them.
Who invite you to sing with them
Who invite you to work and mend with them
Who invite you to teach with them. Who invite you preach with them.
Who invite you to be their Father and Friend

Thank you God for Fathers!
And thank you especially for the fathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers,
cousins, pastors and friends YOU sent to share fatherly love with me.

Fathers Will Win
© Charlotte Sista C Ferrell

Beloved Fathers, Grandads, Brothers, Uncles, and Cousins
When the little nay-sayer gatekeepers of life’s bad news
Seem to be emptying themselves upon you,
When the storm clouds of life
Seem to have parked over your head…


Look up, look over – You’ve got gate-opening power!

Angels of peace and order are available to you
Breathe, reflect, and feel renewed like a shower
Feel God’s inner power turbo charged with grace
Pass the baton- angels are also in this race
Timeless power is ready to glow from your face
You are a special Father serving in God’s space

Look around, note senseless frowns
H
air triggered tempers and curse-ridden replies
Have coroners counting unclaimed bodies
Families searching streets on tear-soaked journeys
In a flash any one of us could go down
But You have what it takes to turn things around


Look up, look around 

There is a fountain of love ready to assist you
To the level where your dreams want to lift you
Don’t cringe as you break thru concrete again and again
Earthly tests may bend, but with new strength, you ascend
You will win ’waay’ before life’s end
Rest Assured that God has empowered YOU
As a Father, nurturer, and Leader upon whom many depend

  
                                  
Happy Father’s Day
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