Tag: poetry
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Keep your ambitions!
To begin again is the dream of anyone. To do it all over again, this time with dreams gained, insights learnt, stories told, hearts bruised, yet glory revealed, is the dream of anyone. The dream of a woman, black like me. These days there is a moon falling from my sides and mouth and I…
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Keep the roots of your approach!
Roots understand everything. Out of sight, Yet they see it all and never judge A beauty, An importance, None goes unnoticed. For roots hidden underground, Just drinking water When they can Coordinating behavior As they can If you could know all the ways they connect, If you could learn, the commitments they know, The cooperation…
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Keep the public in public health!
What public health does not need, is people unwilling to exact the truth. Those unable to look beyond the mirror, to illuminate life for those we serve. So these words are not written to impress. Not even written to note all the ways we let the public down. Rather we will put people back into…
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Keep dreams!
Ideas are pure. Often silent. But immaculate. When they know their life giving possibilities, when they go beyond is sterling. Ideas from a life soaked in imagination, soaked in dreams too, are so splendid. Like a serenity for all things pure and immaculate. I am living in a time where ideas born out of my…
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Keep impossible dreams!
I have been using this blog to make order out of so many things that remain in disorder in my mind. Some days the words come and I let them come. I see a line. I feel its essence. The words flow. I note them down. Other days, words are hard to come by. We…
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Keep a heartbeat!
Our hearts can begin again, a beat on their own, a life of their own, beyond fear that swallows their own, dreams and songs on their own, which begins like a beat again, all on their own, again.
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Keep birds in flight in mind!
Birds fly in three ways. Some flap. Falcons flap by lifting and thrusting their wings across the skies. Some soar. Eagles rise up on their wings and soar to the skies. Some glide. Vultures glide across the skies hurtling down like stones dripping from the skies. To watch falcons flap, see eagles soar or look…
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Keep Black Women!
The day begins with love. To women everywhere, especially those black and hive. Those that smile when we arrive. Those who switch tongues on overdrive. Those who blow kisses that jive. Those whose laughter we archive. Those who stay unmasked and alive. Those yearning for all the ways we thrive. Those who celebrate all the…
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Keep speaking!
I know silence. I have seen it’s power. First they use language to keep you mute. Some are clear in their intent, others are subtle, all of them are designed to keep you silent. They succeed. Or so they think. First you are silent. You observe. You notice. You think. You note. You keep silent…
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Keep unnaming and renaming yourself!
First we accept. All definitions will do. Formats and styles that worked previously too. We accept things as they are. We pray they accept us too. They don’t. We try and try and still we remain unaccepted. Then we begin to look inwards. We begin the work of looking at ourselves through their lens. A…
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Keep invisible things!
We celebrate things we see. Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, marriages, even funerals. But the things in life we rarely see, those that leave us breathless or speechless are worthy of praises too. I have shared previously that for every single visible thing I keep, there are many that remain invisible. Some the world may never see.…
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Keep a soulful life!
How might we create the conditions for a soulful life. I am learning this every day. In a quest to do my most audacious work, I found myself strolling down a never ending hole of what it means to live your most authentic life whether at work or at home. For starters, and everyone will…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 