Aiight everyone settle down, I am back if not but for a short while. I just wanted to let you guys know how much I missed you all. And I know some of yall wanna know where the hell I've been. I've been occupied with love, preoccupied with finishing my first book of poetry, starting the second, and living life to the fullest. Like Mary J. said once " All I Really Want is to be Happy! I can honestly say that at this present moment in my life I am happy. I don't pretend when I tell my partner that he is dangerously close to making me severely and deliriously happy. He looks at me and says, "Yea, right, Abner."(lmao, we call ourselves a 65 year old married couple cause we never go anywhere) He has been my blessing, he inspires and fuels my desire to complete this book, a compilation of the thoughts my feelings my heart and my soul. Now I want yall to know that this entire process has been a labor of love and I will keep you guys posted on every step of the process and let you know as well how to get a copy. So on with the show...

First there was the selection process...I think this took up the most of my time, because unlike some more organized poets I wasn't keeping track of my stuff, until along came me and the internet. Which then lead me on joy ride with poetry across the net when at long last I landed at a sight and just submitted poem after poem, which fortunately for me archives your messages. This was my first and only online poetry group. So with that being sad, yall know what kind of work I had ahead of me, I had to go through manually and search and pull up every poem I had ever written over the past 5 years, and give them a good once over. Ok, I got all my poems right? Wrong? Forgot, had some things on Xanga that I hadn't posted at the previous site, so I had to scoot ova here and get my words....hehehe!! (I'm so delighted with myself right now, yall couldn't conceive) Moving right along...Got the words I needs from here and began my toil and turmoil ova what should stay and what should go. After months and weeks of deliberation sweat and frustration. I finally got it down into a feasibly sound looking manuscript, I can do my thang, right? Wrong again, (lol) I had to sit down and read through each and everyone find its flaw, catch its crutch and straighten it up...I'm talking bout some serious editing folks. I had the black pen for the first edit, red ink for the second, and blue for the final...as of right now, I'm still marking in red a bit. Which is where my baby, comes into to play, he did the layout for the book for me, since he is a pro with Adobe...which I think I will be taking a class on that program real soon, it does come in handy folks. After he worked he magic on my vision and the rest as I can say is history. Heeeheeeee, don't you wish you could be sitting ova my shoulder right at that moment when I am editing for the final draft before I send it in to the presses. Soon kiddies, real soon.

But enough with the suspense, the book is currently in review by some of my closest friends/peers at present. I wanted to do a test run with folks who will be honest and critical of my work without being hateful or spiteful or just plain vicious. Yall know how some of us do when we think someone's blessing is about to eclipse our own. So, please all I ask at this moment is for positive energy people. I am hoping that this book will reflect my nature to the world and share my words with your hearts.

Peace love light

Xavier