Tag: poetry
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Keep grace!
I begged my bones to be kind to me. They remembered yesterday and praised tomorrow. How will we stay the same they said. Now that we know the meaning of grace. So we let them drown as if in a pool of never ending water, as if in a sea of roaring waves, knowing they…
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Keep all the ways you “light your path.”
see women invisible, like your grandmother, are like light in the path, doves on a rock hill, with soft extravagant scars, across the soles of their feet. see the steps she took, across slippery water, it was her, that first heard birds calling, palm trees rustling, a woman by the river singing, children crying, not…
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Keep all the ways you begin!
we are all driven by stories, possibilities within, the hopeless rampages of pain, or the stillness of morning dews, all of which are both life and writing. how we begin is all that matters so long as we begin.
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Keep celebrating the one known as Onyelo!
Love is as love does and when love begins with Nnem you will give life love. The light of love is in the one everyone calls Nnem. Onyelo. The impossible being whose being is as secure as the clouds in the sky. Her love is always there, always loving, always letting the love within us…
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Keep those that are there always!
find and keep those that talk to you like roses that bloom those whose words are thin as wire whose depths like mirrors that unveil whose proverbs like birds that soar whose care divine like pearls whose presence like mines of treasures whose chorus fine like crystal whose counsel solid like roots whose direction lead…
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Keep simple things.
It was simple to begin, simple to set a date, make a plan, let each other lead, keep things simple. The new year was beginning, all things in the beginning seem simple. Set a date, make a plan, listen, learn, see as they lead. What is not simple: four diseases in one, four conditions in…
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Keep the meaning of your name!
all my bones remember, as if the memories are mine, as if we where there, at saint Dominic Yaba, as if we stood next to trees ripe with history, as if some of us knelt for a future that seemed impossible, as if others stood looking forward to a lifetime full of possibilities. as if…
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Keep this gift we gift back to God always!
Some describe you as skin, a luminous embrace. Some describe you as water, with your enduring grace. Some describe you as earth, seeing how you are endlessly unfazed, but I call you our soul, our son, with an unblinking gaze. Happy Birthday, our gift we gift back to God always. Your name is all you…
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Keep this appreciation!
Here is the thing I heard today: Appreciation is an application for more things to come. So I am simply showing some appreciation for all the ways life remains like a cup that overflows with every single word you read here. You are all appreciated for continuing this journey with me.
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Keep remembering how the journey began!
Say we met, on a Friday evening over drinks and pomegranates. Say we talked, for an hour or two, then walked around looking for food. Say we watched the evening sunset, the night creatures rise, as two hearts open to the possibilities of life with no regrets. See the first day I met you, our…
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Keep the liquidity of legacy!
Remembering the changes that shape one’s life and legacy. Even if things change, our legacy will remain forever.
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Keep this freedom gathering ‘
Memories of our gathering resurface every 2 years, around the 4th of July. You dressed in red, blue, white. We draped in orange wrappers and dark green blouses the color of evergreen leaves. Plus it’s as if we are both celebrating our independence, our freedom, only difference is that we free and you are not…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 