Songs I Sing. B. Germain Reynolds

Yesterday Is Today

       If Only I Could

       Prison Walls

       Come Sing!

       Women of Color

       Change Game!

       Agent of Change

       Press for Progress

       White Paper, Black Ink

       Pet Set

       Morning Routine

       Task for Today

       Beyond Me

       Sea Therapy

       Words Matter

       Winning Words

       Lord of Lords

       Joy!

       On My Prayer Lips

       For This Child I Prayed

       Celestial Times

       Fingers of Fury

       Things to Do

       When God

       Broken Body Blues

       Sunset News

       Time Drills

       Not a Scratch

       Wet Songs

       He and I

       Me Time

       You Too!

       Cross the Ts

       A New Year

       Doll Face

       A Thing of Beauty!

       Washerwoman

       Moment of Choice

       Love Meets Love

       My Bad!

       Affair

       Downsizing Blues

       Breakdown

       Night Work

       Midnight Musings

       Songs I Sing

      The Foreword

      Dr. Colwick Wilson

      More Song book than Hymnal, ‘Songs I sing’ is a lyrical exploration of the value of words in the healing of the heart. With willing adherence to the tenet of “keeping a song in the heart”, B. Germain Reynolds intertwines the mundane interactions among friends, lovers and family with the rich cadence of elation, laughter, sorrow, pain, forgiveness and restoration in this compilation of songs she sings and commits to her Word files. Her woven tapestry of experiences resonates with familiarity yet provides a neutral space to reflect, sigh, and smile. Her ability to engross readers, in these songs of varying tones and subjects with thoughtful language and interesting imagery, is to be commended.

      This book is a work of notable value, a preface of things to come. Readers will find this journey captivating and fulfilling. It is a thought-provoking collection of poems, whose progress broadens to include topics that may appear to be unyielding in abundance of expressions. The upbeat nature of resolutions reached for the engaging scenarios portrayed—points to a resolute spirit that seeks optimism over pessimism, joy over despair, resolution over brokenness and beauty over dullness. B. Germain’s deftness at placing these emotions and aspirations into artful juxtapositions heightens the sensitivities that can be easily missed without such deliberate designs. Often, in my own journey, I find myself quoting and referencing the offerings of this gifted Poet/Word Artist and I hope you join me in hearty applause to “Songs I sing”. Encore!

      Loss

      The window is open,

      My soul pours out

      unto the street of indifference.

      When will it end?

      How did it start

      with a hole the size of seduction?

      Drop by drop

      Pain by experience,

      the blood of dreams seeped out.

      The shell remains,

      Flesh