Tag: poetry
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Keep what is deep for you!
Some of us love deep. Some of us hate deep too. Some keep their circles deep, some their words too. I’m thinking too deep, hence the head but this life will force you to realign what matters the most and sometimes it will require deep thinking that scatters your brain. Where you are going, so…
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Keep what you fear!
Fear is a child after one’s heart. It will pile stones, pile bones, and leave you in ruins, if you don’t undo what you fear. I saw this book when my team and I visited J Randel Museum in Lagos last month. I took a mental note and promised I would get a copy as…
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Keep words that echo louder!
If words echo, if they do so without losing their beat, rhythm, pulse, or wind, our eyes will close. This last day of summer, before kids return to school, I closed my eyes, and words echoed in my soul
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Keep all your failures!
Failure, don’t talk to me about failure or what I am capable of. When I wanted jewels for health, I wanted jewels for health. I trained girls, one school at a time, and took jewels to them to end the HIV epidemic and we failed without warning, without wining and without any wind blowing our…
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Keep standing like Lillies!
Some days will be like Lillies, forcing you to stand tall and erect, even when you would rather bend. On those days, stand!
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Keep the grace of hydrangeas!
The day I watched panicle hydrangeas bloom on a cool rainy morning, was the day I knew grace requires facing forward, requires understanding each other, requires evolving again, requires learning how to pray while still dreaming about lasting together.
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Keep soulful moment
Some moments require you to not be a stranger to your soul, to live each day like it’s your first, to save yourself no matter the cost, and look at the sky every night even if for a minute.
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Keep knowing your strength!
When you know your inner strength, no matter how hard they try, the world will never blow your light out. Katherine Dunham.
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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 the storms and pain, they teach how to be creative!
Looking back, it was good that I went through pain, good that storms came my way. They both taught me how to stand. So now, I consider myself fortunate when all sorts of storms come my way. I say a silent prayer in thanks, as they remind me that God is still using all of…
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Keep Nnem love!
Some people love me. Not in moderation. But the kind of love that will lift you up in the air if necessary. Some people love me. Not in pieces, but love that keeps you full and whole. Some people love me. The kind of love that requires you let it be known if only to…
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Keep lazy rivers!
Today I sat by a lazy river and let the sun and its rays soak me deep. There were purple flowers along the river and children sharing how angle fishes swim slow just like the river. I sat wondering if this is heaven or what else can describe how you prevail through storms. So if…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 