57 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:4.88

more photos (3)

Kenneth G. Ortiz’s Followers (11)

Kenneth’s Bookshelves

to-read (16)
currently-reading (1)
read (56)
books-that-i-worte (1)

Kenneth’s Friends (736)

Erin O'Riordan

1,405 books | 2,192 friends

Redd Redd

37 books | 1,066 friends

"Avonna

4,948 books | 1,696 friends

Ben

572 books | 1,628 friends

Renee

6,194 books | 4,955 friends

Tao

939 books | 4,403 friends

Ben Loory

3,210 books | 1,617 friends

Lisa Epp

663 books | 38 friends

More friends…

Kenneth G. Ortiz

Goodreads Author

Born

in Bronx, NY, The United States

Website

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/kenortiz

Twitter

https://twitter.com/kenortiz_artist

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction, Contemporary

Influences

Bruce Lee, Jim Morrison, Malcom X, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain ...more

Member Since

January 2013

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/kenortiz

edit data

I was born and raised in the Bronx, NYC and it is where I still reside. Since from an early age I have always been interested in the arts. In middle school as well as H.S I was a member of the theater club, which manifested in a passion for acting. I was also a member of the dance club. In H.S. I was an athlete as a member of the J.V. swim, cross country running, and bowling teams. At the age of 16 I began to DJ. Along with my cousin, I was DJing on a regular basis doing private and public events. My dancing only went as far as the dance club when I attended Five Towns College in LI, NY, which only lasted one semester. After I left Five towns I attended Mercy College in the Bronx. There were no performing art programs. Soon after I got tire I was born and raised in the Bronx, NYC and it is where I still reside. Since from an early age I have always been interested in the arts. In middle school as well as H.S I was a member of the theater club, which manifested in a passion for acting. I was also a member of the dance club. In H.S. I was an athlete as a member of the J.V. swim, cross country running, and bowling teams. At the age of 16 I began to DJ. Along with my cousin, I was DJing on a regular basis doing private and public events. My dancing only went as far as the dance club when I attended Five Towns College in LI, NY, which only lasted one semester. After I left Five towns I attended Mercy College in the Bronx. There were no performing art programs. Soon after I got tired of school and I dropped out.

At the age of 24 I was going through a very hard time in my life. Jumping from job to job and the lack of companionship I fell into my proverbial "blue period". During that time I began to write poetry about my personal thoughts of how I viewed my life at the moment. After a few years of DJing with my cousin he gave it up and I found it boring to gig on my own. After a while my solo DJ career met its end. I began to do extra work for some time and worked in such films as American Gangster and I am Legend. It was a short lived career that dwindled away. I also modeled here and there nothing major. Mostly for personal portfolios and such.

Using my passion of writing as my own personal method of therapy. I was writing so much that I decided to take it to the next level and started to put all my work together and form a book to have published. It took me a very long time to construct the book to what it is today because I just didn't want any poem to be in it. I chose the poems that meant the most to me, but at the same time I chose the ones that many people can relate to as well. I recently published my debut book of poetry "Walking Through the Parallel of an Individual Cell: Hatred through lulu.com. And is now for sale at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/kenortiz. Since then I have been hard at work advertising my book.

I am currently working on two new books of poetry at the moment. Each with a different topic than the previous. Choosing the poems for my next book while still writing the third one, I have no release date for either one of them. "Walking Through The Parallel Of An Individual Cell: Hatred" is the first book in a three book series which depicts different eras in my life. "Hatred" is about my proverbial blue period. Which touches upon topic of love, hatred, self worth, and sadness. The second book in the series "Transitions". is about my emergence from my blue period leading to a new higher level of thought that is found in "The Consciousness Within""Transition" touches subjects about social awareness, my political views, and abstract thoughts. This book is currently being constructed. The third book in the book series "The Consciousness Within" is about after I have made my transition from my blue period to a higher level of thought and happiness "The Consciousness Within" is about a new process of higher thought, aligning my chakras, opening my third eye, and a newly found happiness. This book is also currently being written.

If you like to read sample poems from my debut book, you can visit my facebook book page,

https://www.facebook.com/walkingbooks....

You can also visit my quote page on facebook,

https://www.facebook.com/KennethOrtiz....

Feel free to leave any comment you may have, it would be much appreciated.

Thank you very much for your support...

Peace, Love, and Happiness to all!!! ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Kenneth G. Ortiz questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Kenneth G. Ortiz’s books

Average rating: 4.33 · 3 ratings · 0 reviews · 1 distinct work

Walking Through The Parallel Of An Individual Cell: Hatred

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

52 posts
Kenneth G. Ortiz's Blog: My Poetry

Lift

Do not wallow in the sorrow
Turn the negative into positive
Make music out of your anger
Undo the hurt that was built up
Release the demons from your heart
Let go of the past and look forward to the future
Cleanse thyself and make yourself whole
Never let anything hold you down
Stand tall for you are strong

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on May 19, 2015 15:33 • Tags: conscjousness, poetry

View all 52 posts »

Kenneth is Currently Reading

Kenneth Ortiz is currently reading

The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual

by Scott Beatty

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Mar 18, 2015 08:56AM

Quotes by Kenneth G. Ortiz (?)

“True love is real. Sadly only few will ever have the joy in experiencing it. If you have the opportunity to be able to share your life with the one person that makes you most alive, most comforted, most happy, do not pass up the opportunity
for anything in the world. You may be passing up one of the best experiences of your life. It may be the one you desire, or it may be the one that desires you. Sometimes the best couples comes from the most unlikely of pairs. You may be passing up the opportunity on joining with the other half that will make you whole. Love is a risk, but a risk worth taking.”
― Kenneth G. Ortiz

7 likes

“Everyday may not be good but there's something good in everyday...”
― Kenneth G. Ortiz

5 likes

“No matter how much you love someone sometimes it is better to totally disassociate yourself from them for peace of mind. Delete all memories of them no matter how hard it is to do so, to leave no reminders of them floating around, in order to make it easier to get over that person. As much as you want to run to that person grab them and tell them how much you still want them in your life whether it's friendship or otherwise it is best to see if that person still wants you in their life. After you have gotten rid of all memories, all associations, all communications if that person happens to reappear then your friendship/relationship was a true one and should continue. If after you cut all ties and you never see that person again then you know you did the right thing by letting them go. Cause if they really wanted you in their life they would not allow you to let them go so easily to begin with.”
― Kenneth G. Ortiz

5 likes

See all Kenneth G. Ortiz's quotes »

Kenneth’s Quotes

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: inspirational

2799 likes

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: individuality, inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance

1683 likes

“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
― Neil Young

tags: death, end, life

1343 likes

“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
― Bruce Lee

713 likes

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

2330 likes

More of Kenneth’s quotes…

recent posts
Kenneth’s Groups

¡ POETRY ! — 22590 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

THE JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB — 6693 members — last activity 4 hours, 26 min ago
ALL GENRE COMMUNITY OF BOOK LOVERS-Perfect for those interested in good books of any genre, film and lively discussion!- from current fiction, thrille ...more

Under The Sun Every Day Just Comes & Goes — 133 members — last activity Jun 16, 2017 03:16PM
A group that has everything under the sun and where every day just comes and goes… A place for the artist, the writer, the poet, the Rp-er, the guy, t ...more

Fargoer discussion group — 138 members — last activity Mar 16, 2013 10:42AM
This group is dedicated for discussion and news concerning the Fargoer fantasy novel by Petteri Hannila.

Virtual Writers — 2340 members — last activity Oct 07, 2025 02:30AM
Helping readers and writers connect. Virtual Writers is a popular online writers’ community committed to showcasing established and emerging writers ...more

i caught her young — 16 members — last activity Jan 26, 2013 08:08AM
MANU, a teenager, grows to be a dashing Indian Army officer, CAPTAIN ABHIMANYU. Each day at Sainik School Rewa (a renowned boarding school), National ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 305304 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Constant Reader — 5990 members — last activity 2 hours, 43 min ago
A forum for friendly discussion of classics, literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. We also love movies and art. Don't ask to join th ...more

More of Kenneth’s groups…

Kenneth’s Friend Comments

No comments have been added yet.