Category: poetry
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Frozen
Sometimes. Relationships—no matter how great they seem—will have you stuck in one place. Lack of movement is never good, never beneficial. It produces atrophy in the body, making you weak and consistently unable to maneuver. Isn’t that how toxicity works? Keeps you locked in place like ice trying to figure out how to be water […]
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I’ve Sung This Song Before
Another place, another time?The pleasure would have been all mine.It’s been awhile since I’ve been stirred…A long time since this has occurred.Had you but met me long ago…The tales to tell! The show to show!I’d never bring myself to missThe chance to indulge in your kiss.And oh, I’d have enjoyed so muchThe pleasure found in […]
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Self Love
A theme I’ve been contemplating—or rather one that has arrested me—is the notion of self. How we conflate our self with our flesh…to concepts quite related yet very much different. The soul has an option, to do what it wills to do and follow the flesh; or, to do as God wills it to do […]
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Enough
She takes your lies,gulps them like wine,laughs till she cries,drawing the line. She knows you well,words turn to dust,love tripped and fell,into … Enough Sooooo satisfying to me, this poem by Grace of the Sun. 🤤 Enjoy.
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Sharing Today—The color of Low Self Esteem
So one of my favorite current poets is Nayirah Waheed. She is an internet poet, and has only published two books of poetry: salt and Nejma. Totally worth the price. “The color of low self esteem” is my second favorite. My favorite one sums up why I write and why I am learning boundaries, why […]
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The Free Indeed
I’ve watched women in my family and abroad shoulder weight that wasn’t their own to carry, bearing the burdens of wicked white people and miserable men and and needy children and soul sucking jobs and time consuming churches. The only places where they seemed to be able to cut loose was in the dances and […]
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Boundaries
I almost forgot! I’d actually meant to “press” someone else’s work and forgot that I never actually did it; I had saved it, thinking I’d scheduled it instead. What I had meant to do was leave a little blurb on their original post before I shared it because to do otherwise seems rude to me, […]
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My Words
I missed April 30th—sometimes I hit a mental swirl of death, not unlike that horrible grinding of an old laptop that’s on its last leg. It’s these hormones. Meanwhile, I wrote this one quite a while ago, it was inspired by this simple phrase written by someone else altogether, seen below (click the link in […]
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Love and Life Unfair
I lost a meter in this one. I don’t even know if that’s a thing. It just felt right, so I did it. And isn’t that all poetry really is? A feeling that tracks perfectly in the moment? That captures the intensity exactly, like photography with words? That’s the beauty of written language. You decide […]
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What Is in a Name
I wrote this one on behalf of people who are tired of arguing with that one person whom you love very much but who never seems to “get it.” Who likes to pick fights then play the victim. Who has zero self reflection skills, so every problem they encounter is someone else’s fault. They are […]
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