Keisha R Holland
Milieu is a collection of poetry that embodies the social climate of recent generations. In this collection, there is a poem for everyone and for every emotion. Milieu is a life experience of trials and tribulations that present themselves through everyday events. These events are captured in meaning not only through words, but through structure. It is a book that has poems that will make you rise to your feet as I tell it like it is. It is a journey that captures us because it has experiences of those we know and those we don’t know, but have heard about. Milieu is a collection that makes you think about life and how you have been living it and how you should live it.
My name is Keisha Romania Holland. I am from Chicago, but am currently living in Maryland. I have been teaching children for the past eight years and also love to write. I have been writing poetry since I was a teenager, but it wasn’t until college that poetry became significant to me. It was in college that I learned about the various elements of poetry. Over the years I had a chance to study Nikki Giovanni, Emily Dickinson, Sherman Alexie, Langston Hughes, Martin Espada, and many others. Many poets throughout the world have inspired me in many ways and have taught me a great deal about poetic forms. I use various poetic forms in this book, some of which I've created. As a newly published poet, I hope to give the world what past poets have given me – a new way to see the world to challenge and change it.
Learn more about me and my books at: www.keishaholland.com
Journey 14
A sonnet excursion is a subtle
soft tone that makes its own music cuddle
the form that holds its meaning tightly line
by line. Embracing tradition like fine
wine, an old youth remembers in a thought,
long-lasting because of the meter taught
in perfect or near perfect consistent
rhyme that crusades a message persistent
line by line, word by word, forever tried
and true. It makes its mark open and wide
with some perfect vision bold and concrete
investigating more than one conceit
that seeks refuge in the minds of readers
doomed to always be poetry weavers.
