Tag: poetry
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Keep words and their meanings!
Some words leave you breathless. The idea of anything being described as pathological for one. Then there are words like disrespectful, unsolicited, insulting, accusing, and anything else that personifies negativity that would leave you wondering whether evil exists in anything that spews words in this way. I am in a phase of my life where…
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Keep hope and a dog named Simba!
Igbo people say that Nchekume ka o-li-li or in other words, that which you hope for is more important than eating anything. So long as you keep hope alive, eventually that thing you wish for, will come to pass. At the beginning for summer, I took my kids to a dog park. We walked for…
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Keep being little pots!
Igbo people have a saying, that when a little pot is underrated, it boils over and extinguishes the fire. Not too long ago, I watched as people looked down on me and my mentor. Granted we are different. You can never tell what we are capable of. And proverbs are the palm oil within which…
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Keep communities!
Let us talk about community, of how people meet. How meetings lead to community. Of how we loose all that matters, the meetings, the community, when we don’t meet. Meetings make communities. Then communities impact the world. I’m in a space where meetings with the right communities matter.
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Keep the music of storms!
Some storms bring music so proud they whistle across the skies, blending with nature as if the rhythms and all the chords left behind where echos of a life so powerless that all a soul could do is rest. I have been through such a storm. Been through the loud drums that left even the…
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Keep dreaming!
I am learning to live while alive. To learn the way of moonlight and stars. To praise when I can and be silent when I can’t. For time is gift and I rather use it wisely dreaming. And dreams take us to places impossible. These dreams are like our heart beat, beating rapidly with each…
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Keep this peace!
Belle, just look at us and know the full extent of your peace. Between me and life, there is quite a lot of things to do. An extra trip or so to a place where cacti dwell. A day’s trip around a city that never sleeps. Where one is at peace is very important. Especially…
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Keep memories!
What I am remembering doubles everyday. What I am seeing, people, places. I can see us crossing streets, paved and grey. Seeing buses orange and black. Walking steps and streets long forgotten, has us wondering, what happened here. What, what, what.
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Keep the wonders of life!
They say life will be good. There is wonder here. So live it gently with fire and hope. Live it with music so sweet, your hips laugh. We did today, with the one named Belle. We sat in place full of songs. Like oceans. There is wonder here. We saw the skies, though grey, were…
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Keep choosing time alone!
This story about a girl who lived alone inspires me. She smiled often alone too. In a world where leaves fall on their own. This girl alone, too deep in their thoughts alone, forgot the serenity of feasts. Those full of grace. In a land where many choose paths, that destroy or unknowingly build, she…
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Keep speaking!
There are those who speak with a voice full of ease. But I speak of persistence to those I love. So they readily meet life, choose love, just as they see it.
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 