Tag: poetry
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Keep black mothers, keep black sons! For Tyre!
I think about us today. Black mothers wherever you are. I think about the thoughts we have for our children. The fear we have too. I think about what tomorrow may bring. What today brings. I want to say it will be better. It may not be. I want to tell you to dry your…
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Keep breaking your silence!
I spent 2 hours early in the year, learning, absorbing, and exchanging wellness, healing from what it means to be black and woman in academia. Many of us have been battered. The weights of all we carry chokes and continues to choke. But the power of our narrative, the gifts we offer and the knowledge…
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Keep flying!
‘Won’t you celebrate with me.’ These opening line to Lucille Clifton’s poem is my mood for the year. Today is my first team meeting too. I like to take my time to usher in the New Year. Somethings take time. So I begin this year with my team, asking them to celebrate all our wins.…
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Keep remembering your name!
It was at this very hour, nearly 14 years ago, that my father transitioned to become an ancestor. I always remember this day with love. For I was indeed lucky to have known love from my father. I am very much his legacy and I pray that through me, his name will become synonymous with…
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Keep time!
I’m not a poet. But I am mesmerized with how words come together to evoke meaning. Those that dimple everyday. Those that promise things simple, golden and gay. The lines, the forms, all the meters, and style are appealing as they are intriguing. Those who specialize in poetry have my deepest respect with the magic…
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Keep no!
This is my year of no. I’m loving it already. I have been asked to add another trip to my already packed work schedule in the middle of raising four young children who are school-aged. The answer is no. I was also asked to do a favor for some in need where the need was…
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Keep blooming!
There is beauty, grace too in carnations that bloom. Though slow settings at first, time will strain for attention and only then will each opening be sublime.
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Keep your history!
To a girl or a boy alone, know that you have a people, with their own histories, their own stories, their own mysteries, their own adversaries, their own victories, their own jewelries, their own galleries, their own sceneries, their own groceries, their own factories, their own sanctuaries, their own vocabularies, their own stationeries, their own…
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Keep being limitless!
I dreamed things would be different. Children would laugh and I would sit back and sigh. There is no place like home. Not in form, for some. So thank God for all the roosters, turkey, cows goats and monkeys we saw along the way. Also thank you to all the trees that swayed around, ushering…
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Keep breathing again!
The plans for this year was light. I planned to walk through flames, to risk the fires that burn, even in the cold, just so I get to the forest of light within. That was the new year plan. In one week, I have been informed by the year that this one will be a…
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Keep grace upon grace in 2023!
Happy New Year. Something about this moment, This New Year again, Feels like a renewal A rebirth A time for reimagination Restoration Release Rest Remeberance Revival Resolve Revelations And Revaluations. Only, this time, I’m in a village, And the pleasing sounds of rare birds and cocks crowing, goats bleating alongside more bird sounds chorusing through…
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Keep Dolphin Estates!
Palm trees line greyed walls. Some still baring their fronds. Some bare. There were gates with barbed wires. Black, grey and brown gates with a dash of green and white. Most of the walls too were grey. The skies too grey. It was as if walls and skies gathered together for a grey purpose. We…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 