Blue Skies-Limitless Horizons
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BLUE SKIES- Never say never to life but pick yourself up after each fall.
LIMITLESS HORIZONS
Or the trivialities of life.
Dare not to think of defeat.
Fall a thousand times,
Never stand still in mind or body.
Believe in possibilities.
Accept the challenges.
Refuse to dictate or be dictated to.
Start over!
Climb mountains with vigor.
Rest, if you must, but don’t stop.
The world will keep spinning.
You will spin with it.
Soon you will see rainbows.
It will become clear that:
The struggles of life have provided for you-
Blues skies and limitless horizons.
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About the Book
Blue
Skies-Limitless Horizons is a first book indeed. What
is remarkable about this first effort is the manner in which Miriam Green
Madison makes use of modern printing techniques to realize her long held
personal dream.
This slim volume is a testament not only to
technology, but to perseverance and hope.
Perseverance got the job done leading to its completion. Hope is the center of these poems. Miriam Green Madison finishes what she
starts.
She has lived through a time of turbulence and
danger in one of the most oppressive communities in North America for Black
people-Mississippi. This is a state few
Black Americans would have chosen to live in during the time Miriam grew up
there.
Despite this, Miriam Green Madison does not seem to
harbor feelings of fear or anger, bitterness or outrage. These emotions do not show up in her
poems. There are no poems about men
dressed in white sheets and hoods racing through the piney woods seeking to
intimidate and bring harm to people like her.
Instead readers will find words of encouragement,
gratitude, love and above all, hope.
They will find a concern for children and concern especially for those
people who are less fortunate than they should be in our rich land. There is heartfelt testimony for a faith in
the God of Jesus of the Christian Bible.
Miriam Green Madison has not lived a protected or
sheltered life. She has had troubles
aplenty of her own. There is much more
she can write about. Ms. Madison has a
poet's heart and sensitivity and, she says, she is always thinking of
poetry. She writes anytime,
anywhere. It is her nature to test and
grow.
Although there are some flashes of true poetic
beauty and brilliance in Blue
Skies-Limitless Horizons, there are also in this book some uneven moments.
This book is just the beginning. Here she has tested the waters. She is now poised to go deeper into
herself. I am confident more books are
coming. Along with a strong sense of
hope, Ms. Madison also has a drive to accept challenge and to be excellent.
Miriam Green Madison is a poet to watch
About the Author
Miriam Francis Green Madison is a child of Mississippi. Born in 1937 in Starkville, Mississippi, she was the second child among three of Minnie Lee and Leonard Green. She grew up in the shadow of Mississippi State University, a college she could not attend because of the strict segregation laws existing in Mississippi during her childhood. Nonetheless, she has made education a chief cornerstone of her life. She now possesses college degrees just short of a full doctorate from several institutions in Alabama and Georgia. These institutions include Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Fort Valley State College (Now known as Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia and The University of Georgia where she has earned an Administrative Specialist Degree. Much of her success in education and in life, she attributes to a strong Methodist mother and a guardian angel in her hometown. She, a Baptist, was taken under the wing of a white Presbyterian woman who taught Bible classes at her school. This angel told her, "You’re going to college one day", and made good on the prophesy; aiding her progress annually with summer jobs. Miriam Green Madison has served the public schools of her Middle Georgia community as a teacher and ended her 30 years in education as the honored principal of a highly acclaimed elementary school for inner-city children in Warner Robins, Georgia. Retired, but busy as ever as an Adjunct Professor at one of her alma maters, Fort Valley State University, this child of Mississippi still continues to prove that she is also a child of promise.