I have been writing since I was eight years old, but I really didn't become serious about writing until I was in High School.

Although I went through my childhood and adolescence thinking that I would become a doctor, my heart was truly in writing; but writing does not pay the bills, so I went to college and majored in biology.

I continued to write despite my major, and in 1999 I compiled all of my writing from high school on and put in for a copyright. That was my first book, which is still unpublished, but it's there.

After a long stint at Cal State Long Beach and numerous major changes, I was influenced by an instructor to "do what you know", so I changed my major for the last time to English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing

I received my BA in Creative Writing from California State University, Long Beach in December of 2005, and although still unpublished, I look forward to the day when I will go into some obscure bookstore and see a book written by me.

Vanessa Niki Davis

My passion is ...

writing...writing....WRITING!

I know too much about ...

absolutely nothing. I can ALWAYS learn more

My parents always told me ...

you can do anything you set your mind to

My childhood ambition ...

was to become a pediatric neurologist

My favorite memory ...

going to the Michael Jackson Victory Tour when I was five years old

Why I write ...

because I have to....I'd go crazy if I didn't

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

J-Moss

My first job ...

I was a summer camp counselor at Delhaven Community Center in La Puente, Ca

My best moment ...

When I rebuked my Hematologist for speaking death on me

My inspiration ...

Jesus

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: My dear mother

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Unconditional

Love not deserved
Love unearned
She gives it to me
Unconditionally

Pushing me then pulling me
Closer to God
A love reciprocated between us two
She sustains me
She holds my heart
Because she knows it's fragile

All I am is because I studied
Her
She is my lighthouse
pointing me in the right direction

Maternal instinct is the fuel
the inertia that drives her
to strive for excellence
I wish I had some of her juice

A true Proverbs 31 woman
Worth more than rubies
More than life itself
Her children arise and call her blessed

Brandon Lee said it best
"Mother is the name for God
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