Tag: poetry
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Keep walking through your storm!
We don’t get to pick our storms but we can choose how we go walk through them. Choose the armor we put on to battle the storms. Choose the legion that stands with us to defeat the storm. I am walking. I found myself in a storm recently, found myself reading and reading the reminder…
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Keep telling your dreams!
Tell your dreams to anyone. A child, a tree, a bird. Tell Say where it clicks, it swells, it falls. Tell. And if no one understands, not the bird, nor tree, nor the child still Tell. For nothing is as important as the freedom your dreams bring. Otherwise you will be like a bird with…
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Keep the freedom of dreams!
The invisibility of those free are odd and beautiful. They bear the same relation to dreams, pointing the way up. Only few wake up to the hidden potentials of dreams. Only those free. The power of making. The power of affecting reality is powerful to those who dream. Those who shape the future with their…
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Keep singing this song of freedom!
I had a date with Ms Toni Morrison yesterday. It was at the Nobel Museum. There I watched as my greatest teacher’s words were used to imprint this song of freedom I sing today. Emancipate yourself. Really, there is nothing more important than choosing freedom. Nina Simone once sang about how she wished she knew…
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Keep the point of struggle!
Today and always, poetry with their stirring words will serve, nouns will choke verbs used to describe any action. Diagram this sentence too: Those who know themselves, those named before anything named them, those Igbo, those brilliant, all those that belong to Onyelo, will burn a tune you will hum forever. Wait for it… These…
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Keep moments of gold!
We are some of us made of gold. We pass through fire and never fold. Not when the fire was expected, the deepest kinds. We saw it, circled it with all our might, then let it burn us. If we don’t burn, we stay. If we burn, we let all the pain seep deeply within…
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Keep all the ways we prevent and end HIV for girls and women!
We spent the day remembering Hydeia Broadbent, remembering the first time we learnt about HIV, remembering lessons, if any, we remember about preventing it for ourselves and other girls and women like us. Today is National HIV/AIDS awareness day for girls and women and so we spent the day remembering all those who have paved…
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Keep knowing all creativity is local, all healing is local too.
We stood there, my team and I, with a single purpose we stood. To say all creativity is local. All healing too. We spoke and spoke and spoke, until, suddenly, with clarity, the dreams became clear. A hundred day journey begins with a day. The leaves may rustle. Lizards may climb high. Through joy and…
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Keep what is local!
All creativity is local. I am seeing that with each passing day. All creativity as far as the eyes can see, is local. We bought a bag of Africa Star Apples today. Udara as it’s fondly called and I gladly ate the whole bag proudly as all fruits are local. What if we did the…
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Keep this bloom and blaze!
Somethings bloom and blaze on their own. Things full of boundless possibilities. A blue sea. A glowing moon. A mother’s milk. A circle of close people. Anything with a sense of endurance, will find a way to bloom and blaze all on its own. I’m in a space with the one who saves, who reminds…
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Keep Peace!
I remember the name. My eyes were drawn to the colors. A white bird draped in blue with a round circle with a blue hole perched on its wings. I remember the name, Peace. They say it stood for peace. The bird seemed to sing with ease. The skies looked on with glee. Believing in…
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Keep this gathering of women with eyes tiny like us!
I’m inspired by the feast of women I saw the other day. Those black like me. Those that begin from the womb and continue long past a day. I know our imperfections are nothing, that our light is everything, that we gather loving those we would give our everything. I have seen where women build…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 