The Game of Life

About the Book

The purpose of these works entitled: The Game of Life; is to bring entertainment and understanding to the world through the eyes of the author. To open the third eye of a population that has been looking through for restitution for life and stand up to obtain their purpose for being. When life deals you lemons, make lemonade (Author Unknown). Don't settle for lemon water and end up becoming the product of unfinished works on earth. My main goal is for my readers to build a strong determination to reach for their goals in life, and developed an understanding that in life; the only thing that stops you...Is, you.

About the Author

Vanessa Barton currently is working at the american legion post 197 as a bar waitress and as a Sales and Loan Assistant at EZ pawn in Jacksonville. She has held two jobs for the past seventeen years to raise her two sons, Joseph Bostick Jr. and Roberto Barragan IV, whom also reside in Jacksonville, Florida.

Vanessa's fondest memory involves moving from Mt. Pleasant, Texas to Florida and seeing orange groves for the first time. Vanessa is a graduate of Sea breeze Sr. high school in Ormond Beach, Florida; and has completed two years of college at DBCC in Daytona Beach. Vanessa has always been interested in poetry and went on to write poems in the local newspaper called the Daytona Times.

Upon entering Jacksonville, Vanessa has continuing her love by publishing poems for the Florida Star, a local news paper in Jacksonville.  Vanessa entered a poetry contest through poetry.com, becoming the winner of the Editors’ choice award for her poem: The Game of Life; which will be published in Forever Spoken scheduled to be published in April 2007. Vanessa's favorite poet is Maya Angelou and her favorite poem is: Still I Rise.