Tag: poetry
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Keep Mati, our public health hero!
Mati, I see you as one of the great ones. I see you as one who has sat before fire, with hands that have glowed in deep flame. Your face was truly sculptured by smoke, and your eyes have truly wandered around as your voice rose, like humming bees in the middle of summer, your voice…
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Keep this Bloom!
The air in the dark that fills me, shapes me, nurtures me, then refills me again, is the reason why we Bloom. Thank you Ms. Cummings and all of you that see me, see why writing in this manner matters. I cherish and love you all.
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Keep life’s many thorns!
They say life will be full of thorns for those who do more than survive. I say if this is life, it is already thorny and not quite full and though this may feel like survival, at least we know the root for our thorns
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Keep global health!
I would rather study global health than any other field, yet all fields have their force worthy of reflections. Complex issues requiring multiple lens pulls me forward, bravely, to navigate, even if slowly, what can be done to address the complexity. Global health requires many endeavors with ample narratives that require us to turn the page…
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Keep choosing joy
I am going to choose joy, deliberately choose it ways, delight in its turns, those that lead to distant places, then choose joy again. Our source of joy for today. Meet baby Jet…
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Keep the tears!
Today I cried. I let the tears flow for awhile. No need playing strong. Tears were all we knew. So I sat back in my chair looking out the window. Rain was falling as it should, with drops that mirrored the ones flowing down my eyes. We have been told that the urgency for today…
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Keep words!
If ever there was a time to be honest, to be truthful about how we feel today? I would begin with words…
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Keep this amazing grace!
Today marked the end of an amazing journey. It was the end of a five year-term as a permanent member of an NIH review section. One that began exactly one week after I gave birth to my 4th baby. All of this in early months of the pandemic. This journey was amazing because I really don’t…
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Keep the power of your name)
And with you I dream. I do so in way like poetry. You make this life worth living.
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Keep Good Friday!
Blood and water gushed from sides where man stood as God. If life ends today, I hope our sides are full of water, full of blood, full of things that bend with light.
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Keep astonishing with your light!
Perhaps we do not want to be remembered. Perhaps we do not want to be praised either. Perhaps we desire no fame. Perhaps we choose instead to live quietly. Perhaps we prefer no one knew we existed. Perhaps we choose instead to serve the highest forces in the universe. Perhaps we choose to be unseen.…
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Keep why you write!
These days I’m learning that even leaves on the ground have invisible wounds that are always shared with strangers. So too the words within us. They reveal us. To write increases the revelation shapes our actions. I am learning that words carry the joy, the sorrow, yet still the optimism of every writer. However tall…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 