A packet full of dynamite is how Jean Colvin Brown describes her autobiographical poetry.

&uot;I know my poetry can help other people, it already is actually,&uot; she said.

Brown, 34, is using her personal tragedies and triumphs to write her autobiography in poetry form.

&uot;As far as I know, no one has done this before,&uot; she said.

Tragedy struck Brown early in life.

She was only five years old when her father killed her mother during a domestic dispute.

Brown then went to live with her grandma, Maud Corley, in Gilbert, La. It was during these years, Brown says, that her strong roots in prayer and the church developed.

&uot;Grandma always taught me I can do anything with my life if I put my heart into it, and if it’s God’s will,&uot; she said.

Brown says it’s her faith that gives her the strength to write about being a victim of child molestation and rape, surviving an abusive marriage and overcoming alcoholism and drug abuse. Although, poetry has been one source of therapy, she has been also been through several different treatment facilities and battered women’s shelters.

In March of 1997, Brown ended her treatment in the 12 step program at Phase II in Alexandria, La. It was here Brown says she dealt with the core issue of her sickness, abandonment.

&uot;I want to help others find their (own) closure or their story,&uot; Brown said. &uot;Once you know their story, you can help them find their true calling,(find) what it is that makes them happy.&uot;

Brown has remarried and has two sons, Dustin, 14, and Kruz, 2. So far her book contains 36 poems, with over 30 more to go. If she gets the book published, she hopes to use any profits to help her return to school.

In &uot;I Shed The Victim Role&uot;, a poem about leaving an abusive ex-husband, Brown writes her words to live by:

Love fills me, courage heals me,

Taking risks frees me,

Miracles have made me whole.

Goodbye, blackeyes, fist of fury,

and angry men.

NO MORE!