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Keep this stream of consciousness named Isioma!
To survive, first begin. Preserve, do whatever it takes to lift yourself, free yourself from anything that is not in your name. What is your name. Who named you. When did they name you. Why did they name you. All this talk of naming began before anyone and anything framed you. They are like a…
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Keep all the ways children see themselves!
Noontime or nighttime, at any hour in between, one of them doodles away, with no noise, no sound, no distractions, nothing at all. Then slowly, like the first drop of rain, something emerges. A lake’s song, earth day, getting wise on words, will bring eyes full of peace. As the whole scene plays out, in…
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Keep this peace!
Today I will write the most low esteem lines ever spoken. Write for example, ‘I am confident and not my fault you mistake my confidence for something else.’ The winds will blow and eventually a day will force me to rewrite the lines as this. “No one who knows they are confident speaks loud. The…
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Keep dreams heavy.
That time I thought tough times last, I went closer to the edge without falling over. Surely God had a hand in this as well as Papa and mama Ocha and of course the one named Onyelo. So, I stood and my stance as the one with the golden hair said, is like no other.…
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Keep wisdom following storms!
At the end of the storm, you will wonder whether to cry or simply sigh. You will wonder what remains. The proof of wisdom after all is the desire to learn. And your chi would say you, always you, for no one who lives by the river will ever wash their hands with sand. So…
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Keep enjoying the little things in life…
I have heard these words said often; “We can’t control what happens to us, but we can control how we react. These days and in pushing past storms, I am choosing to enjoy the little things I love, the glimpse of a glowing moon at night, the songs of birds in the morning. I am…
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Keep walking through your storm!
We don’t get to pick our storms but we can choose how we go walk through them. Choose the armor we put on to battle the storms. Choose the legion that stands with us to defeat the storm. I am walking. I found myself in a storm recently, found myself reading and reading the reminder…
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Keep telling your dreams!
Tell your dreams to anyone. A child, a tree, a bird. Tell Say where it clicks, it swells, it falls. Tell. And if no one understands, not the bird, nor tree, nor the child still Tell. For nothing is as important as the freedom your dreams bring. Otherwise you will be like a bird with…
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Keep the freedom of dreams!
The invisibility of those free are odd and beautiful. They bear the same relation to dreams, pointing the way up. Only few wake up to the hidden potentials of dreams. Only those free. The power of making. The power of affecting reality is powerful to those who dream. Those who shape the future with their…
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Keep singing this song of freedom!
I had a date with Ms Toni Morrison yesterday. It was at the Nobel Museum. There I watched as my greatest teacher’s words were used to imprint this song of freedom I sing today. Emancipate yourself. Really, there is nothing more important than choosing freedom. Nina Simone once sang about how she wished she knew…
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Keep this freedom
Some seasons bring gifts that glow beyond darkness, underneath skies that announce the arrival of thunders, the fall of rain. I am in a season, flooded with poetry, destined to humanize all life’s experience. To be radical they say is to begin at the root. It takes time to tear down people and systems not…
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Keep the point of struggle!
Today and always, poetry with their stirring words will serve, nouns will choke verbs used to describe any action. Diagram this sentence too: Those who know themselves, those named before anything named them, those Igbo, those brilliant, all those that belong to Onyelo, will burn a tune you will hum forever. Wait for it… These…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 