Author Until opens up about her Imperfections...

Dreams _ Again by Tracy Hand

Dreams

  are not a Reality

Real

  is not Imaginary

Life

  is Real

To live It

  we must Dream

  we must transform our Dreams into Reality

So they never become Imaginary

                      Again!

My Note to Tracy Hand:
 

I had a very heartfelt conversation with you and it stirred up emotions of things you tried or thought you'd put to rest. It also reminded you of the dreams you wanted to pursue, but somewhere down the line you forgot about them, but now remembering you must put them to the fore front, and begin again. I can't wait to see you transform the rest of your "Dreams into Reality."

Thank you for sharing this poem with me and allowing me to share it with others. This poem is more than beautiful.

~Until...

A Verse That is Free - by Jason Fairhurst Wall

Right now,

I need a verse -

a verse that is free.

Free to feel

and free to roam.

Free to love and to spurn.

Free to make myself at home.

A verse free

to take any turn.

Free to take a path that's straight.

Free to feel

and free to hate.

I need a verse -

a verse that is free.

This freedom is

enough for me.

(c) 2014 

Finding Poetry By Rachel Benson (The Word Glutton)

I’ve pulled poetry out of the shatter of broken bottles

And in the threads of stained sheets

Found rhythm in bluesy rants

And on the needle of scratched records of sordid yesteryears

Yes, I’ve caught stories in winds blown from haggard sighs

And abandoned cries that sat idly by on the corners of notebooks

Waiting to be heard…and written

I caught words riding on the wings of brief hellos and forced goodbyes

My eyes have witnessed the prettiest poesy

In the ugliest ugly

I've learned that poetry lies between each scarring

Of blemishes and unwarranted hurt

Birthed from unrequited infatuations 

And grown from uncultivated seeds

I have heard spoken word spill through sealed lips

That couldn’t contain secrets

Yet they remained mysteries

Because the flow of poetry offers anonymity

Even in its revealing

I’ve stepped in whole verses

Sprinkled in the aftermath of cumulus storms

Causing poetry to stick to the bottom of my shoes

Putting pulse in my walk… making me able

Able to walk words onto the spread of life

Finding poetry has afforded me the privilege

To pick beauty from the devastations

And place it in the center of wreckages of busted bubbles

Finding poetry has proven the existence of something more

We find our equals in admittances

And utterances of truth

Finding poetry gives voices and lends hands

To the quiet and the helpless

Little girls find their youth and little boys find their chance

People find their hope

When reading or hearing their lives poeticized and memorized

By someone else who recognized their cries

And they never even knew that they were spotted

In the cracks and crevices of nothingness

But when you find poetry

I Need This Time

I need this time to be alone
Time to reflect
On me, and what will happen next

I need this time to think
Get a pad and permanently tattoo
My emotions with ink

No matter how many times you blink
You'll always see my words and stay forever linked

That is why I need this time
To get to know myself again
And discuss with my pen

About what I want to say
Then my hand will connect with my quill
Express how I feel

Then I'm left feeling good about the words
My pen chose to lay

On the thin paper sheet
Where my life and the tree meet
Quiet and discreet
My feelings as a secret is what we all keep
My life, my pen, my sheet

I need this time

*From the book "I Just Want to Write! by Until
To purchase a copy please visit www.untilnomore.net
(c) 2014

There's a New Bard in Town...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE________________________________________

Contact: Alethea Reece

Email:areece.bsp@gmail.com

 U (Press Release) - August 9, 2014
 
With a new book along with a Spoken Word Poetry CD now and Wow!!!

 
LOS ANGELES, CA--It is no mystery that ever since poet and writer Quanda R. Graves better known as Until, self-published her very first poetry edition; I Just Want to Write! It has been receiving great feedback. Ten years in the making and finally, July 3rd 2014, a dream come true. 

Now, what seems to be getting more of a buzz is not just her presentation of what customers receive when purchasing her book, but the free spoken-word poetry CD that comes inside of the package. Just like the book, this is also Until's very first spoken-word poetry CD project and she wanted them to go hand in hand. 

Word has it that people are in love with the creativity of it all.  Until states in her own words;

 "This CD illustrates what is known to be my moniker which is "Poetry is me. Therefore I am Poetry." When listening to this CD you will feel my heart, soul and my essence. Art, in its purest form. May you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed creating it and putting it together." 

What people are saying about Until's spoken-word poetry CD is that not only do they love her poetry, they say it's original and ultra creative and most of all they enjoy her voice. To purchase Until's book "I Just Want to Write!" please visit her website www.untilnomore.net and to hear her spoken-word poetry CD project please check out the video listed below.

Poet Until Gives Birth...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE________________________________________

Contact: Alethea Reece

Email:areece.bsp@gmail.com

 U (Press Release) - July 26, 2014

Gives Birth to What?

 Her very first highly anticipated poetry edition entitled: I Just Want to Write!

LOS ANGELES, CA--Quanda R. Graves better known by her pseudonym Until, resurfaced after an eight (8) year hiatus back in 2008. As she declared her road back to literary missions and reclaiming her soft spot for her first love, poetry. She then introduced to the world the launching of her very new website at that time. Her website reeked of who she was with the moniker of "Poetry is me. Therefore I am poetry." As she shared heartfelt poems that oozed of emotions, sealing her love for the Pen, Paper and Pencil.

From 2008 she has been making strides, fulfilling goals and manifesting to others her plan of what she hopes to accomplish on her journey in regard to the written word. As well as tease you with hints of whats more to come, from her of course. Starting with creating her own company called, QS: Writers Group, which caters to creative writing projects. Until is also a literary columnist and journalist for the California Crusaders Newspaper and contributing writer to the online Brutha Magazine. Furthermore Until is the youth director for "The Los Angeles Black Book Expo." As well as a radio personality for the radio show called Until and Harmony Live (currently on hiatus).

Until, has just recently self-published her very first poetry edition, (ten years in the making) entitled "I Just Want to Write!" Which has been a long awaited dream of hers. I just want to write, in her words, 

"is a collection of poems and essays created to imprint the journey of my love affair with the three P's; pen, paper, and pencil. Which illustrates my dreams, ambitions and desires; with hopes of inspiring, encouraging and uplifting all who will read it. It is my soul inscribed for all to bear."

To find out more or to purchase your copy of "I Just Want to Write!" by Until, please visit her website at www.untilnomore.net.  Keep and eye on Until, as she has a poetry series on Youtube coming very soon. Meanwhile check out her interviews with celebrities, authors and more on Youtube at www.youtube.com/untilnomore.

Remember, poetry is Until, and Until is poetry.

Stronger by Until...

"Although our journey's may not permit us to always do the right thing or make the right decisions. It is important that you build your own relationship with GOD--so that when others don't understand, or want to judge, you don't have to worry because you've already built a relationship with the only one who matters." ~ Until...

Lord;

We as humans always tend to forget, how often we are blessed

and all that you have done for us when be become distressed.

But please give us a minute to realize that things are not all bad because sometime before,

we've been in a much worse condition, wondering how we became or put ourselves in this position, start hoping and wishing;

When we should remember that it's only a situation, and there are some with more

complications, that come with heart palpitations and in our minds we know that things will work out fine, if we just stay stationed.

Because often we're panicking about what and how things are going to get better,

not realizing that it will, if we just let him. But when we stop to think and take a deep breath and say to ourselves;

 "What was I doing before this disaster came my way? Oh, I know what it was, reading my bible and praying everyday, and if I go back to that, I can put on my listening ears again so that I can hear JESUS say:

I will take care of you even when you go astray.

Do not doubt me for I am your provider, dedicated

to saving the sinners and married to the back slider."

So, now we know that when disaster may come and upset us for a minute for a minute or two sometimes even longer; it doesn't matter, just continue to praise GOD and thank him and he will bestow blessings upon you, and raise you out of a situation you may be going through; just to make you STRONGER.

Black Swan Publishing Presents...

Poet, Writer, Radio Personality, Now turned Author

Until...

Introducing her highly anticipated very first poetry edition entitled;

"I Just Want to Write!"

Publishing date July 31, 2014. To pre-order your  copy now please
visit her website at www.untilnomore.net.


Until's Book Synopsis

"I Just Want to Write!-is a collection of poems and essays created to imprint the journey of my love affair with the three P's; pen, paper, and pencil. Which illustrates my dreams, ambitions and desires; with hopes of inspiring, encouraging and uplifting all who will read it. This is my soul inscribed for all to bear."

Until...

A Better Person by Until...

"Writing helps to keep me in perspective. It helps me recognize my wrongs, it guides me to do right. I can't live without it." ~ Until... (From my upcoming book in 2014)

I let my pen take a ride on the highest flight of my feelings

I let my pen take a ride on the lines toward my spiritual healing

Inking out perspectives and analyzing all of my imperfections

Writing them down one at a time, dividing them into sections

What ever impacts me, I find time to take notes

I then recap by reviewing what it is I just wrote

And I see that writing down my feelings is the perfect antidote

for me to become a better person

Until...

This poem is from the book entitled "I Just Want to Write!" and to pre-order your copy now, please visit my website at www.untilnomore.net.

Publishing date July 31, 2014

Tired of losing... by Until...

I have life only because two people chose

To have the mistake that they made

Then before the decision

It was God's choice to give me life

So in the month of May on the 23rd day

I was born

So unfair that I had no say

In the choice that was made

I was sent here by two people

That I don't even know, strangers

Giving me orders and I'm made to obey

Taught not to stray from the teachings

Of the people I call my parents day to day

Now, that I know that God say's I'm chosen

Then I'm going to hell if I so happen to break

The laws he has created not to be broken

This life has nothing to offer me but I should appreciate it

I know not why bad things happen to me but I must not question it, just take it

I am to know that bad things and evil spirits will lurk to bother you

Even though I may not ever understand why

Just know that those things or spirits will attack you

I find this quite funny that life is something I'm supposed

To cherish for it can be taken away in a second of a heartbeat

And the life that I cherish, I love, I live, actually means nothing because I don't have the control of my life to keep.

If Im being good, why entice me to be bad

I'm I'm not bothering you, why must you provoke me to make me mad

I've giving hearted why must people take from me

If I'm trying to do GOD's WILL, why can't people let me be

If I've already went through a struggle in regard to one type of situation

Why must I go through the same struggle of the same situation

Before it can be one of the things in my life to go through the process of elimination?

How come I can't go through things and graduate to a new level

Like when you play certain games

Why must I stay stuck on the same level

And can never win to change

I'm tire of losing

Until...

Must have missed that? by Until...

My life has always been complicated

From the beginning until now

My mother says that I'm chosen

And honestly I just can't see how

I must have missed that! Lol!!

Until...

Release by Until...

"This is how I deal with writer's block. LOL!" ~ Until...
(From the upcoming book "I Just Want to Write!" this April of 2014)

I'm not feeling good

I can't get the pain to ooze from my lips

I can't cry--so I just sit

Waiting for creativity to hit

So I can take advantage of the outlet that I'll get

But I gotta' feel it

Believe it

In order to spill it

To release how I feel about my pain

Until...

This poem is from the book entitled "I Just Want to Write!" and to pre-order your copy now please visit my website at www.untilnomore.net.

Publishing date July 31, 2014

How to Love

Do you remember when Love was a mutual feeling between two people? 

But now it's more like, if you Love me, then I'll love you.

Or you say it first and then I'll say it to you.

People categorize Love as you do for me and I'll do for you

Tit for tat, if you, then I You have to, I don't But I'm asking whatever happened to your whole feelings in the situation? Oh me, oh my, I sigh
Because whoever said that Love had to be a routine and whoever said that Love had to be an order or an obedient command Whoever told you that Love had to be mean or anyone else that Love is a certain demand
I got lost about the definition of Love a long time ago Besides Love to me is not what you say It's an action that some people just don't know
I used to know Love once, but I dare not know it now It's been so long that I can honestly that I've almost forgotten how...
How to Love.

Beautiful (All of the time) by Until...

Dedicated to Brian O'Neal: (A poem to go with his song called "Mesmerized")

Hey everyone!!! Today was the first day that I heard this song and it made me feel so free, so beautiful and sexy. It made me feel at peace, but I guess that's the power of music and the beautiful

people who create it. I've fallen in love with this song and I just wanted to say thank you to Brian O'Neal for bringing forth that feeling that lives inside of me being free from all of the burdens that sometimes life can bestow upon me.

The sun is shining

and the day is as beautiful as a bird in the sky

I am in my, spaghetti strap white tank top and ever flowing white linen skirt

enjoying the fragrances of the field of flowers that I am standing in

barefoot while my toes flirt with the grass and the dirt

As vibrant, colorful butterflies constantly flutter by

I feel so sexy, so radiant, I'm so thankful to be alive

My eyes are lightened by the sun

I am really enjoying me

Enjoying all that God created me to see

Becoming one with every breeze

Happy to finally be free

To feed the swans in the lake

Interact with the ladybug on my hand

A blue jay on my shoulder and together we stand;

mesmerized, as we watch quietly the willow trees sway back and forth

Bringing forth the winds to refresh the land

of the ever blazing heat ~ I love how nature speaks

I believe that this is how life is supposed to be...

Beautiful (All of the time)

Until..

This poem was published in Pure Thoughts Magazine. www.purethoughtsmagazine.com.