Tag: poetry
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Keep love for Olisa’s birthday!
The chance to love you, to know you, to grow with you In our darkest hour Our brightest days Are the reason Why we open Like wings for you. We call you Olisa. The one we named after God. The one we used to ask for his guidance. We are afterall nothing without God. The…
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Keep love!
Love springs from somethings. Sometimes a whisper, a warm embrace, a simple card, all can pull a heart and make it leap. The idea of a day dedicated to love has always kept me alive. Partly because I remember how love came to be for me. I remember its first touch, its first kiss, its…
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Keep perspective!
We watched AFCON match today and saw our beloved country loose a game. Then we literally clutched our pearls with the SuperBowl until Kansas Chiefs won. All of this had me thinking about perspective. Failure is always inevitable with anything. So too is success and the hurdles along the way. But perspective is like a…
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Keep the fullness of life.
Remind me of how we got here, how our dreams, became reality, how fullness of life, became our life, how still the dreams moving in us, then shifted, but remained in us, as we watch time go on, and your light still stayed on, this indestructible light you gift us, as days stream into years,…
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Keep all your fears!
Do your fears talk back to you. What would they say? Would they insist you press on with their prominence on your forehead? Stand still even in fear or simply let it all go. I went for a walk with fear today. I shared that these moments of incubation are overwhelming. We have so much…
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Keep illuminating your presence!
You do not have to listen. You do not have to wait to hear me speak. You only have to open your eyes and let your eyes see what it sees. Tell me about hurdles, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile, the world will go on, days will go on and everyone will…
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Keep being a dream.
I am forever inspired by Langston Hughes. His poem “Hold fast to dreams” is an affirmation of sorts for my life’s work. The idea too of bringing all your dreams, another poem, inspires me. I am moved by the idea where we could do the following from another poem: “I dream a world, where all…
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Keep the cycle of dreams!
They say we are never old when it comes to the dance we know. I agree which is why I begin today with the thought: what odd dreams do you have? How have you watched the universe conspire to make them a reality? A cycle of sorts. Only this week, I spoke about a dream…
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Keep the lessons of dogs!
When dogs meet other for the first time, they stop, sniff, and acknowledge each other, in love, or in hate. When people see each other other, whether for the first or only time, they move pass each other, some in silence, some full of depths unknown, that make you wonder about the lessons of dog.
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Keep Black History!
Some words are unforgettable. Like black, history. These words will make you regret the day you lacked clarity for words clear and deep. Those different and free. The purpose of words, like a mountain, are to help you rise, struggle but rise, still pushing against air till you bleed their essence.
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Keep being like a broom!
They say a broom has no value, yet everyday, people look around their house for a broom or something close to it to sweep their homes. The depths of a broom are so deep, that when you done using it, it goes back to being itself, a broom in silence and peaceful simplicity. Imagine being…
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Keep this light
You will turn into something inexplicable, like the sun and its flowers, the moon and its showers, when you make yourself, light.