A Better Way to Smile Poems

This book is about celebrating life through adversities. You will find poems that speak life while viewing love as a catalyst. Things that are tangible and real still holds preference for many hearts. A simple genuine smile is sometimes all people need to keep going. One may endure much to finally embrace realness and peace. Conquering life and its many challenges may very well start with ourselves. The purpose of this book is to shine a light on hope. Always striving, achieving, and growing, is a good recipe to live by. As we continue to live together, let us love together, build together, endure together, and maybe smile together. EDITORS REVIEW "In your poem "Dire Prayer" immediately took me back to my childhood growing up in the South and in the church. I felt as if the Pastor himself was talking to me and giving me the tools I needed to continue to live a Christian life. And again in your poem "Breakthrough" really spoke to my heavy Christian upbringing as well as "Dire Prayer" except this one spoke to me more in terms of overcoming a struggle, opening up to new things, and overcoming adversity. What was the inspiration for this poem? Then in "You're Not Alone" the same thing, these really spoke to my Christian background and whenever I go through something in my own personal life I know I'll always have someone to turn to when I'm in need of some grace. This manuscript certainly has a different overall tone than before. I feel more emotion, love, care, and religious themes throughout it. A strong sense of family and learning how to cope with the ups and downs of life is really refreshing in this book and in your writing, you gave great literary examples in your poetry". "Overall your work is fantastic and I can tell your growth as a writer has truly blossomed, giving this book its own form of life". Robert Lee Wilson III. Freelance editor and author of " IF POETRY WERE SHORT STORIES