Adeke Rose believes that poetry can heal our past, help us cope with the present and bring hope for the future. Ms Rose leaves no subject off limits; writing from the heart about love and relationships, sexual trauma, domestic violence, spirituality, juvenile delinquency with a passion, caring and eloquence that is uniquely her own.

Adeke Rose is the stage name of the spoken word artist Karen Crawley-Buckholtz, MA, LCPC. Ms Crawley-Buckholtz is a psychotherapist in private practice and teaches for the psychology department at Anne Arundel Community College.

Ms Crawley-Buckholtz holds a BA in psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an MA in counseling psychology from Bowie State University.

Adeke Rose resides in Maryland with her husband David, surrounded by her adult children and two grandchildren.  

Read Poems from She Walks In Faith...

Poems included in She Walks In Faith...

"Heaven"

Faithless

Until Heaven Cleanses Hell

Surrender

Premature Maturity

There is a Space (For Jeanette and the Raneo Family)

Mountains and Roller-Coasters: For Doug

Wingless Bird

Jesus As Friend (dedicated to FT Meade PWOC)

Guidance for a Bride to Be (From voices of experience)

True Story

Juvenile to Juvenile

On Leadership (For Vicky)

Still Counting (Haiku)

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