Tag: poetry
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Keep the unknown!
I fell deep into the unknown this past week. Everything was out of place. Even my face broke out in ways unknown. It was as if life was full of chaos and change, all spiraling out of control. I tried to relax, take things in stride but a life relaxed seemed like a luxury my…
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Keep grace while in Lagos!
The idea of remaining in one piece, birthed this space where all my experiences, parenting, productivity, life continues to roam free. I cannot begin to count all the ways it has helped me heal from fires and storms. My heart knows too, all the ways rivers flow in peace, all because we lived, our way.…
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Keep Nike Art Gallery!
This place has haunted my dreams. In it, I imagined I would be surrounded by all sorts of art. Some would be hard to describe. Some would also leave me speechless. Well, speech and description were hard today. Meeting the legend every one calls Mama Nike too. But I’m grateful. All I can say is…
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Keep prevailing Black women. Prevail like Gwendolyn Brooks demands!
Every now and then, I come across poetry that is arch and precise. Some focused on the sublime that is our sublime, like the earth that is our earth. And when I seat and mediate on the words, reflect too on the light they carry, I am pushed to carry this light too. Knowing there…
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Keep representation!
My daughter made art the other day. Her rendition of the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine. In it there was a woman playing tennis dressed in a orange and yellow top and red and pink shorts. Her name was Jennifer Walker and according to my daugther, she had helped the US to victory with her…
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Keep being open!
Be open to the story changing. Anyone passing through life and never expecting things to change is simply passing. I am prepared to embrace life and all it brings including times and moments where things take a turn. That’s all. Keeping this here as a reminder to myself that it’s okay when things change. It’s…
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Keep knowing you belong here!
I picked pieces of my broken self yesterday, ran through forest park windy paths, listened as scars fell off, watched too as a brown and black furry creature crawled off, the earth as I ran thinking, knowing that all things work together, even things I cannot see together, all blasting in ears and head weary…
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Keep looking up again!
After the first night, the beat in your heart, slowly finds its rhythm, slowly returns to its tempo, it was painful and sorrowful, nothing else to do, except to wait, not in limbo, not in doubt, but to pray and hope that the next day, would start like the one before, that the disappointments today,…
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Keep walking!
Lucille Clifton once noted that ‘the surest failure is the unattempted walk.’ It was part of her poem entitled ‘Questions and answers.’ I am keeping this here because I have been walking through a path that feels so difficult that all I can keep doing is walking. So many times I wanted to quit. So…
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Keep stretching me!
Here the leaves paint the skies brown, with hints of red still nestled next to all things green. Here all things are possible too, like changing seasons with temperatures unchanging for climate reasons. Either way, I am realizing you are me when I dream. These days I have been dreaming of all things possible, seeing…
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Keep perspective!
I am maintaining perspective, knowing patience is no virtue, at least for me, everything tried this week, to stop the path he destined for me, forgetting too, that great is his mercy towards me, and that even what they may see, is bigger than what he imagines for me. So I will not rage, though…
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Keep poetry.
When I speak of power, I’m speaking not only of the stuff we keep to ourselves, the ones we keep from blowing up, the ones we keep from starving to death. I am speaking of the ones we ought to let go, cut like an umbilical cord, so it has a life on its own.…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 