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Denise Cook

Denise Cook

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My name is Denise L. Cook, known as The ORACLE. I am a vessel, an Oracle forever after the order of Melchizedek. A wise woman with sage advice.  My book, The ORACLE Speaks... just because, is a book of positive, motivational, inspirational poetry, prose and song. The words I write are not my own, they are messages needed to be heard and understood. The words I share bring life to self-love. If music is the universal language of love, and 'harmony is the speech of Havona', then G-d's words are the universal language for life. I love my life, my children, my man and you, all G-d's children. Enjoy your read. Find truth between the lines and enlightenment and understanding in the content.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><strong><em><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">What People Are Saying….</span></em></strong><strong><em><span></span></em></strong></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">“Bright fresh and injected with an understanding of life as it is and as it could be, the Oracle’s words on the page leap at the reader with an embrace as an old friend. In performance she is all the more thought provoking, motivating and relevant.<span>  </span>And an experience to be savored and repeated again and again.” <em>Larry Carroll, President, Diversified Entertainment Group and former local/national Television and Radio News Anchor</em></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"></span></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="en" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"></span></p><p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">“…so get yourself ready for whatever ready for you is and listen to the ORACLE as the ORACLE Speaks…just because, just because. Just because it can’t wait,<span>  </span>just because it’s in her and it’s got to come out.”<span>  </span><em>Jerry Butler, The Iceman</em></span><span lang="en" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"></span></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="en" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"> </span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">“Genius, I grew up around a lot of those…. Not long ago I met another one, another genius that is. Her name is Denise L. Cook. She’s not only a poet she’s a world class talent at a bunch of different levels.<span>  </span>…I really enjoyed the emotional roller-coaster ride from sexy to tender to humor and beyond.”<span>  </span><em>Keg Johnson, Record Producer, President Blakk Pyramid Entertainment</em></span></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><em><span lang="en" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"></span></em></p><p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span> </span>“Her work is akin to another Nikki Giovanni or Nina Simone.” <em>James Bennett, Operations Engineer, Los AngelesRecordingSchool</em></span></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="en" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"></span></p><p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><strong><em><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">And others…</span></em></strong><strong><em><span></span></em></strong></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#ffffff;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">“She makes you feel good about yourself.” “When she walks in the room, you know she’s there. It’s as if a bright white light has been turned on.” “The ORACLE made me cry because I saw and felt myself in her words. It was as if I had written them myself. How does she know exactly what to say?” “Ms Cook made us feel like we mattered. Most teachers don’t seem to care what teenagers think. Ms Cook really cared.”</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p></p>