Tag: writers
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Keep knowing your worth!
For so long, I have carried stories within me that these days I gladly give it birth, give it earth, give it all that lets me speak of its worth. See we have always known stars outline our worth, known to pay homage to the earth, and we know the reasons we cried at birth. Though our…
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Keep being mist!
Being mist, I see that I may have to obscure understanding, drizzle like fine rain, enlist all fog, till they hear me roar.
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Keep the life of Onyeka Onwenu!
Legends never die. They only assume new position as ancestors. The knowledge of your passing though remains deep. You were more than an icon, a muse, a storyteller, a dreamer who reminded us why love would keep us all together, why God should bless our mothers and truly the power of bringing people together. I…
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Keep this Bright Star!
I love balance with life. Where something stands, Achebe once noted, something else will stand beside it. I’m a researcher, a professor of medicine, a public health scientist and one focused on sustaining evidence based interventions in resource limited settings. It’s my head. I am also a mother, a wife, Onyelo’s Isi-baby, a sister, a…
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Keep grace!
I begged my bones to be kind to me. They remembered yesterday and praised tomorrow. How will we stay the same they said. Now that we know the meaning of grace. So we let them drown as if in a pool of never ending water, as if in a sea of roaring waves, knowing they…
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Keep a plan!
Imagine if you sat in a room full of young people, what would you say, how would you begin. I sat in a room full of young people yesterday and saw myself in their eyes. Their minds were open and ready to learn. I began with these words from my mother “Enter to learn, depart…
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Keep all the ways you begin!
we are all driven by stories, possibilities within, the hopeless rampages of pain, or the stillness of morning dews, all of which are both life and writing. how we begin is all that matters so long as we begin.
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Keep this peace!
Here is the truth. Run across a bridge. Inhale its links. Exhale its air. Joy will be there, inner peace and golden trumpets too, where skies are grey.
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Keep ordinary moments
Despite the skies being grey, we drive up the street to the place where it all began. Seven of us in a white bus, driving every morning to the place where anyone can lead change. There is an ostrich dressed to blend with grass. A giant head smiling as we drive pass every day. Meat…
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Keep those that are there always!
find and keep those that talk to you like roses that bloom those whose words are thin as wire whose depths like mirrors that unveil whose proverbs like birds that soar whose care divine like pearls whose presence like mines of treasures whose chorus fine like crystal whose counsel solid like roots whose direction lead…
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Keep simple things.
It was simple to begin, simple to set a date, make a plan, let each other lead, keep things simple. The new year was beginning, all things in the beginning seem simple. Set a date, make a plan, listen, learn, see as they lead. What is not simple: four diseases in one, four conditions in…
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Keep the meaning of your name!
all my bones remember, as if the memories are mine, as if we where there, at saint Dominic Yaba, as if we stood next to trees ripe with history, as if some of us knelt for a future that seemed impossible, as if others stood looking forward to a lifetime full of possibilities. as if…