Tag: life
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Keep living.
JoAnne Epps was the interim president at Temple University. The idea of describing her with the word ‘was’ has me stumped and crying for a woman I didn’t even know existed until her death. Yesterday, while scrolling through Twitter, I came across this post that broke me down. I don’t know whether it was the…
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Keep turning into your own!
I am taking this poetry thing a bit further. I came across the golden shovel way of poetry writing. It’s where you take a short poem in its entirety or a line from the poem called a striking line and create a new poem using words from the original poem. Each line in the new…
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Keep writing!
They say it heals and persevere. Writing. They say to use it to keep what matters. Anything from golden brown meat pies to the perfect strawberry smoothies. They say to use it to amplify and acknowledge, express and experience, cope and chronicle, reflect and resist, solve and save, pray and persist. For we are empowered…
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Keep, keep your power!
Sometimes I struggle to find the words to keep. I’ll rather hide my thoughts from the world. Laying instead on the ground. Crushed and broken by the storms around. Sometimes, words won’t do. Wishing I could flee from the pain pursing me to my grave. Intimidated by the rage. I lay again on the ground.…
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Keep the sweetness of life!
I am basking in the words of Audre Lorde these days. In her short essay oh how she intended to live the rest of her life while battling liver cancer, she shared the following I will keep forever: ‘I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness…
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Keep the heavenly sight of belladonna lily!
Wild flowers are everywhere. Like me, a woman, full, in bloom. Come soil or rock, I grow, oblivious to the softness or hardness of the other. Life knows me well. I am persistent with all the soil and rock I meet like a Bella Donna Lilly. I was greeted by these large lily like flowers…
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Keep peace!
There is a certain kind of peace I long for these days. The kind that lets me be. Free, with no demands. No strings attached, no noise, no worries too. Just a life lived well, my way, because peace flowed like a river.
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Keep joy, like garden eggs!
I remember. I have been saying this word lately. As if all memories are fading fast. They seem to be, considering how time seems to run along these days fast. So I remember, once when I took a class in college. It was a sociology class and the focus was on slow food movement or…
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Keep knowing that life na je je!
Pour me juice mom, please pour some juice in my cup. This was the sentence that jolted me back to writing. I was in the middle of sorting groceries that I just bought. Exhausted and still trying to figure what to eat for dinner. My five year old son had other things on his mind.…
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Keep living life!
Throw away all you think about life. Throw it all. Then just live. Life is too short. I am realizing it more so these days. Tomorrow isn’t a guarantee. Tell all those you love why you love them everyday and make them sick and sick of your love. I am in the mood of infecting…
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Keep life notes!
I am not quick to describe for myself whether life is this or that. There are so many different ways to live life. Many different ways to make it your own out of something much deeper than anything that you can describe. Sometimes you will fail. Sometimes you will succeed. But life keeps going, almost…
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Keep escaping with words!
I want to be that no ordinary kind of woman that meets herself every time through words. To remind her, that because of words, we can survive, live, love, pray, as we escape the unthinkable. These are cold days, but words can lead out to our breakout as we learn what life is. So if…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 