Tag: poetry
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Keep becoming light again!
The path to light neither begins or ends with me. It’s a path afterall and it’s true destination will remain unknown. Light emits ray and it often falls on people open to its ways. I am open to the journey and all the curves along the way. Those that deflate or drive, alter or align…
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Keep ascending clear, befriending air!
May you ascend clear, with friends near, transcend fear, and befriend air, end tears, that tend to appear, then adhere to persevere, with friends that steer you to extend frontiers, through years without end, with air you choose to befriend. My keep for today and always.
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Keep flying above your possibilities!
Let’s fly above our possibilities, Lucille Clifton once said to my spirit, to which I responded, not just my possibilities, but how about flying above our abilities. Above my ambitions. Above their admissions. Above any ammunitions. And above their assumptions. Then the spirit moved me and said you are onto something, keep flying above your…
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Keep becoming light!
Lucile Clifton once shared, how our lives are a circular stair. It keeps turning through time. To know why, we circle the world and back, one year after the other, is to know light. I am flooded by the brilliance of light. A majestic ray, that blooms, past the very speed of itself. The very…
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Keep dream keepers like Langston Hughes!
Everything ceases the moment you discover Langston Hughes. Jacqueline Woodson shared this in her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming. I have been dreaming and Langston Hughes is my keeper. He helps you become intentional with words. To him they matter and can be fire within, setting a world ablaze when used with precision. He was skillful…
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Keep Langston Hughes “Drum” in mind!
‘Bear in mind, that death is a drum,’ notes Langston Hughes in his poetry entitled ‘Drum.’ To him, it beats forever, until we answer it’s call. The call is not for the dead, but those living. Death is a drum calling those living to come. I can hear it’s pulsating beat. It thuds louder on…
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Keep the hill we climb in mind!
This post is a short one. I had to support because she captivated my attention that fine January 20th day. Amanda Gorman and her poetry, her aura, her words, spoken so effortlessly, so eloquently, made me long for days and times where minds are free and words are like opium for the soul. Fierce and…
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Keep being light my child!
I couldn’t sleep. Reimagining innovative spaces for engagement for minority youth kept me up. The past week, we hit a different space with my daughter. It’s that space every parent dreads but know it’s inevitable. The friendship zone. I remember being in this space when I first moved to the US and kids can be…
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Keep the beauty and strength of women!
Ethereally lost in the world of words, Pinke Gordon Lane was a poet’s poet. She once said, her ideas, her reality, filled her with a drunken desire. I am learning about this desire with writing. Pinke was a master at writing poetry her way. She had a way with words that could make you feel…
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Keep a mother’s love!
He cannot find his tape. We awakened to tears. He wants to fix something. A book in pieces, he says, between tears. But he cannot find his tape. So he cries. He starts his morning some days like this, crying. Today it’s for a tape. Other days a piece of crayon or a book, even…
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Keep Amanda Gorman in mind!
‘For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it, if only we are brave enough to be it. ‘ These words by Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet from her poem, ‘The hills we climb’ was a delight to hear during yesterday’s inauguration. Amanda herself was simply mesmerizing. She dazzled…
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Keep waiting!
For poetry yesterday as part of homeschooling, we read the poetry of Margaret Esse Danner, especially her poem “This African Worm.’ Every week my daughter picks out a poem she likes and we spend sometime reading the poem, studying the poet, while trying to make sense of the lessons learnt from the poem. Margaret Esse…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 