Tag: poetry
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Keep the litany for survival!
I keep Audre Lorde’s litany for survival very close to me. It has become a reminder for the times we face. We are not afraid too. Just glad that we know where we stand and how far we have come. See where you think you laugh last, we laugh long, remembering always that we were…
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Keep this peace!
You will begin again in light. You will step out beyond your comfort zone. Step out to the middle of an ocean. Step into waters that will not drown you. Your feet will stand firm remembering How to stand. When you feel like falling. When you do not know whether you will survive or how…
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Keep remembering all the ways to carry water!
I am feeling both ordinary and magic. Ordinary and magic at this crossroads where life transitions to the next. I am feeling like wandering and striding only worlds that allow me to dream as life continues and continues. The power of words, always a muse. The loss of people I hold dear, a reminder. How…
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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 knowing failure leads to your superpower!
This is about failure. A reminder that it fortifies growth. Those focused on success or places far, the ideas just outside the box and with no path to funding. Those that force us to arise or learn to trust. All the ways we seek for real knowledge not whittled down by requirements. All things focused…
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Keep flying through words.
They say to learn to fly, a bird must first leave a nest. I have been flying through words. I have been learning to break words open, to get at their bones and deal with words as though they were air. I am also learning to find not only how words get their meaning, but…
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Keep dreaming still!
Those who write seldom die from pain. Survival is the only option for them. For only things that make them sane, things like light, stars, and anything else that dazzle in a full moon, will make them fertile beyond the night. These children of the sun and soil, whose bright depths rise silently still. These…
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Keep REST with your community!
They say a community that meets and let’s love be at the end, will live and live. I am in a space where finding, nurturing and keeping my community is all that matters. All last week they taught me something I simply forgot existed, the power of REST. We spend so much time working that…
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Keep REST!
Here is how we restore rest. We sit on balconies over looking oceans the colors of the sky. We dance to the glorious rhythms they play with palm trees that rustle in the air. We choose the serenity and grace from moments when skies turn gray. Remembering there is always chaos to conquer. Noise too…
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Keep making time for long walks with boys!
And there is time for everything. For taking long walks with you. On days were the skies are blue. And love is in the air for you. Baby bunnies and two little birds will try to say hello. A colony of brown ants too. We will see trees rustle in the wind for us. Trees…
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Keep knowing why you stand!
In a room where children confident and clear, soar and touch the eloquent world that emerges, there are melodies that mirror the skies eternity. They glow as if the love in us is singing to the love in us. They show happiness, glory, and beauty like the nectar of tea roses. We enter, knowing these…
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Keep the happiness under your nose!
Our flights got cancelled last week. In a land were cacti dwell. We could either complain or chose peace even in such chaotic moments. For happiness is still right under our nose. Then we were told of a place where tulips dwell. We were told we could spend hours there. We could go from cacti…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 