One Day is a collection of poems which highlights the issues and challenges facing mankind in the 20th and 21st centuries. Politics, religion, socio-economic issues, and a need for natural resources led to numerous campaigns on the battlefield, and on the middle class. Issues challenging the poor and the middle class were world wide issues, and in an attempt to spread democracy; conflicts became the order of the day.

From ethics to eros, Shirley Hall's poetry has an edge that sharply dissects the dilemmas of contemporary life. Hers is the voice of the prophet crying out for social justice; the voice of a compassionate human being seeking basic decency and dignity. More than mere entertainment and aesthetic experience, Hall's compositions provide insight and instruction, and are guaranteed to make your spirit sing. Lance Strate Prof. of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University, New York ------ ...a spokesperson for others - brave at voicing wrongs - her poems have a courage behind them, a tongue...

FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY EMBRACE is a collection of adult situations penned in a poetic format. EMBRACE introduces themes that will heat you up in the most wonderful places, and others that will angrily cool you down. With words you might not recognize and languages you might not understand, you'll connect with an exhumed passion, a flow of emotions, a raging anger, and just maybe an erotic pleasure. Confront the lines separating love, romance, intimacy, erotica and porn in a way truely your own.