Novelist, Poet, Producer, Director and Screenwriter.
My writing is a part of who I am, and as a writer, I give a big part of myself to my art.
As a writer, I have different goals and motivations for other areas of writing. No matter the script I am creating, my main objective is to take the reader on an emotional journey. One that allows them to escape into a world of my creation and encourages the reader to explore their emotional journey.
To do this, I realized early in my writing career that the source that I draw from for inspiration must come from a range of places. Many of my writings convey stories that explore my experiences and my interpretations on the matters of life. But I use so many other inspirations as resources, such as current events and profound historical studies.
To freely create stories in various genres, I use a few different pen names. The first pen name was Rene 'RJ' Johnson. I had a great marketing campaign; who is RJ? I used to introduce myself to the writing world.
My main goal when creating poetry is to create poems that allow the reader to connect with the subject matter. Unlike my novels, my goal is to expose the reader to concepts that they never considered to challenge their preconceived notions. On the other hand, my poetry explored my emotional journey while capturing the inspirational journeys of others.
On this page, you can discover different writing samples that does just that, details my emotional journey, and encourages you to explore your own. Explore and read a few. Let me know what you think by sending me a note through my Get In Touch page.
Enjoy.
Mwah
DRA 💙
Dawn René Austin. Pic by DRA
Below are poems written by D. Rene, my poetry writing persona. Each poem has a significant meaning to me. They capture a specific point in my journey. A moment when I acknowledged my past decisions and experiences in order to grow in the present.
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They saiossessor’s possession and I try to possess but constantly reminded a confessor’s confession…
That I am… an adverse reaction to God’s love.
They say.
I say…
If I am the adverse, than they are the reverse of God’s love.
An inverse version of God’s light.
And I am an exceptional outcome of God’s light.
I say.
They say…
I am a dangerous danger.
My skin, my mind, my thighs, and that oh so dangerous danger inside.
They lied.
I lied…
If I said I am nothing and they are something.
How can there be value in the invaluable?
If I find something in nothing than who is truly valuable or valueless?
I confess.
They confer…
They deliberately deliberate on my worth.
As if my significance is insignificant to how this world work.
My presence is no present therefore my presence they don’t need.
When my presence begets presents that in fact they need.
So, it seems there is significance in insignificant things indeed.
They don’t think.
I don’t think…
These hands can’t handle the handiwork of those that despise me.
They discuss me in disgusting discussions whether I can weather the storm that surrounds me.
You seize what you seek in a sea of hate see they don’t understand me
They don’t see
I don’t believe…
What I hear about why I’m here.
Apparently, it’s apparent that evidently the evidence states my rank is low.
Not to rain on your majesty flow.
But your reign, I wholeheartedly oppose.
Below your highness, behind your highness in tow.
They said.
I don’t.
If, by chance, we never meet again, remember me.
Remember the smile you put on my face, and I will remember the feel of your hands when my body you traced.
If fate doesn’t place us in arms reach.
I will be left to search for a love that can meet the standard you set for my heart to beat.
If, by chance, we never meet again, consider me.
Consider the laughter you filled me with, and I will remember your warm breath on my neck.
If life doesn’t allow our love to peak, I am left with mountains of grief and hills of dread to leap.
If, by chance, we never meet again, look for me.
Look for me in the simple things so that I can find your spirit among everything.
Because if destiny decides to separate what we believe is the essence of divine love that brought you to me.
Because what is the point of this journey if it doesn’t end with you and me.
But if, by chance, we never meet again, please remember me.
Every time I close my eyes, I see you. I see your head tilted back, and your hands clenching the sheets. Every time I tried to remove your hands; you then move them to scratching me. I can still feel on my back the marks you left, stating that you were there. Every finger playing the melody to every stroke you bare. Every thrust met with a different moan and every slow enter, met with a different tone. I can hear you so clearly announcing who you’re with.No mistaken who it is, because you made sure that your neighbors heard every word of it.
I could still feel the sweat from the friction we caused.And the cool breeze from the open window to cool us off. The stickiness from all the fluids flowing, and not giving a damn about where they’re going. The slippery of your dam, on the edge of exploding. The elevated heart, a sign of our motion. I can still hear your pants between each nudge.And the loss of breath with each big shove. Send this serpent on a treasure route, looking for your G place to scout.
No diggity, no doubt, every time I’m there, the goal is forever to get you there. Elevated tones, I know that you almost there.Slow grind this time, will get you there. And I can still remember how your body moved when I got you there. The straightness of your legs, the clench of your body, or your vocal response.
See, to me you are the epitome of lust and beauty. This explains why every time I close my eyes- I see you.
DRA 💙
I love energy If your energy is right, I’ll love on youThey ask what if it is a woman? I say, if her energy is right, I’ll love on her
Slim chance Because even though I love energy, I am obsessed with the physicality of the black man.
It could be as minor as the arch in his foot The pace of his walk or maybe even his stance But all his minor, major movements put me in silly girl trance
Maybe it’s the strength of his legs or the power in his hands Or the boldness of his style that drives me to the arms of the black man
See I’m super-duper fly No lie It’s not because of the brands I garnish But how amazing my melanin armor looks next to his
See it might be his broad shoulders or the directness of his speech Or the feel of his skin when it’s pressed against me It’s the calmness of his tone that keeps me compelled And the rhythmic story that his heartbeat tells
See he’s my honor, my gift from the OneBecause nothing could be crafted so perfectly and not be one
The world may not see you and appreciate what’s given But I see and love everything in them
I can love whoever I chose to love, this I can But nothing compares to the love I have for the black man.
Sincerely, their biggest fan.
DRA 💙
This how I know I’m better than her.
A shameful declaration, I know.
An unpopular opinion, but a truth is a truth, even if it is only my truth.
She is the lust of a sinner
I am the prize of a winner
How I figure
If we are one, she’s less than point-five.
I make him whole.
She only makes his ego rise.
This is why I am paraded around as the face of the enterprise.
I am his personal vault where his secrets lie.
She is just a place where deceit derives with secret lies.
She walks in the dark.
I walk in the light.
She’s spoken of in whispers.
My name is broadcasted with a title when I enter.
She is minimized to a mistake and I am visualized as a future he wishes to make.
But his interpretation of her and I place is not how my truth was made.
But any woman willing to marginalize herself to second place is my truth’s starting place.
Her existence is unbeknownst to me.
But the desperation in her is why my presence is known to her.
Time spent and things received are my overflow.
My Family first that’s why she’s never quite sure if he’s going to show.
She’s a soul sucking leech that believes living in the shadow is where a woman is suppose to be.
She will trash me and speak negatives into his ear due to fear that she will never get her chance to finally be the new me.
Low self-esteem brings her to low morality.
Where’s the pride that says I’m your queen, no side act, but the main event.
Where’s the respect at?
This is why I’m his life and she’s a pastime, a little something on the side line.
What type of woman’s see’s him only when she can?
I see him when and if I plan.
She begs and cries when he don’t stay.
I’m unbothered because I know his head lie where his heart stay.
And I’m the current land lord over his emotional estate.
This isn’t the proof for my truth.
But any female openly participates in the destruction of another woman’s heart is where my truth starts.
And this is where my humility departs.
She’s a bottom feeder.
Soul sucking leech.
Wait a minute, I said that already.
She is a bottom feeder.
A succubus with no morals.
The whore of Babylon.
An illustration for deception.
A capsule of hate.
A waste of air and space.
A passed around used mistake.
I am everything she’ll never be a respected woman that never creeps.
Loved, beloved, a trophy, his everything.
Prideful, loyal, something he’ll never leave.
Intelligent, confident, something he’ll always need.
Beautiful, sexy and a bedroom goddess.
I’m queen everything.
But even these things aren’t the reason for my truth.
Any woman willing to compromise herself for the sake of love is comparable to who.
So here is the bases for my truth.
When I learned of her existence, I did what she couldn’t do.
I did what myself respect demanded me to do.
Identify, visualize and accept the truth.
Separate and depart before the same sickness she has reached my mind and penetrated through.
I found out that I was in love with a man that I was better than too.
So, I took away this blessing and turned this trio into a singles group.
This is my truth.
DRA 💙
Hey, Black Girl
Lips twisted, eyes roll, attitude directs you to move on.
She embodies every stereotype.
She is the black myth, and yet she is everything the world thinks not.
Hey, Black Girl
Hair twist, corn rolls, her locution directs you to move on.
Her beauty is black, she is not mainstream beauty, yet she is always the current trend.
Hey, Black Girl,
Words twisted, vernacular rolls, her conversation directs you to move on.
She’s too aggressive. Her tone betrays her, and yet her jargon brings clarity to lead in any direction.
Hey, Black Girl,
Thoughts twisted, gray matter rolls, her conviction directs you to move on.
Seems her sexualized ethnicity gives her a limited intellectual capacity. Yet her judgment is clearly fair, grounding her disposition in truth.
Hey, Black Girl,
Roles twisted, emotional rolls, her temperament directs you to move on.
Uncomfortable in her presence, there is no nurture in her nature, yet it has been part of nature to use this black woman to nurture this nation.
Hey, Black Girl,
All the unavoidable yields in life set to halt you, black girl. And yet you persevere, pushing past life twist and rolls, creating your own undeniable lane to move on.
Hey, Black Girl.
DRA 💙
I’m a queen without her queendom.
A chieftain without my tribe.
See I know this real.
I can feel the divinity in my veins.
You may not know that feel.
I’m a divine seed from a divine seed.
No title among man can truly define me.
See I’m pure us, mix with no you.
Seven generations through.
Life cleansed.
No mystery.
I’m no you.
See I’m why they rewrote history for.
Only alluded to.
Her story residual still in your frequency, so you know the truth.
Know it’s you that they once worshiped, sacrificed and prayed too.
It was you that gave them the blue print on everything they do.
That was you carved in those walls, and all those tales too.
I have a tale too.
A cursed blessed people, so my dynasty was cursed too.
But can a queen not rise up?
You are my rise up.
But before I take my throne between Geb and Nut.
It is a few things that I must do.
Like reconfigure all those lies that they told you.
They taught you history with a new face, new place.
Gave you barbarian dreams, aspirations and a new faith.
I am what was and will always be.
My lineage waking up into their divinity.
I rebuke your doctrines of half-truths and lies.
You may have been able to minimized my existence.
But now watch this chieftain rise.
DRA 💙
In 2019, I wrote a play titled Shooney: A Suicide in Three Acts. The play is now being adapted into an independent film. The executive producer is Tish Griffith with TGriff Productions/Noir Diamond Films, in assocation with my production company Dawniverse Films.
Shooney: A Suicide in Three Acts, a couple's new beginning is threatened by tragedy. Spoken word artist Shooney Banks, and head-strong Bella Sparks, set out for a fresh start in a new town, but will this new place be the beginning they hoped for or their end? Dynamic acting, spoken word poetry, original scores, and heart-felt themes set this drama apart.
For more click here.
Shooney: A Suicide in Three Acts coming soon.
My First Full Length Novel Project- "Untitled" *UPDATE:
My first full-length novel is complete.
For the past ten years, I've been working on this novel. And for ten years, the title of this project has alluded me. It wasn't until the last of the editing process, did the title reveal itself to me. My goal is to have this book completely edited by end of year.
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I've worked on this project for almost ten years, and a title has alluded me the entire time. So right now, it is called The Untitled Project.
Novel description? My book is about a woman's struggle with her dark past, her confusing present, and her unknown future.
The protagonist, Danielle, is a cynical, dark-spirited artist. She is currently on the fast track to success but cannot reap the full benefits because of her deep seeded hate and pain for life.
After an almost fatal incident, Danielle develops a desire for more than the despair she dwells within. Through encouragement from a fellow artist, she seeks out the one person she has concluded to be the root of her mental distress, her mother.
With a new mission to reconnect with her past, Danielle embarks on a journey to find her mother. What she ends up with is a cryptic road map through an examination of her ancestral history.
Through this examination, Danielle hopes to learn how to overcome the memories of her past, the obstacles in her path, and her future uncertainty.
DRA 💙
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