poetry
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Books are…
“Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks Continue reading
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Courage
I know that it is never easy to wear scarlet letters on your skin to take history and C-section her calendars for the stories that didn’t make it until you find the authenticity of truth like consciousness beautiful but delicate see through and cutting like shattering glass piercing the spirit and slicing through flesh and… Continue reading
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Rest
I wanna turn off my brain. Not completely, just enough to gather my breath and lay it at the head of the bed….a temporary moment to which renewal finds itself back to my pillow; to which I may die, and in the same second be reborn. I want my eyes to bow in submission to… Continue reading
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I Promise You a Woman
I know what kind of girls you’re used to. I know that kindergarten fingers on small hands don’t know how to hold you like I do see she pushes buttons on your heart like that cause she’s not hip to the fact that a man can lose focus too but see she’s just a little… Continue reading
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Guest Feature – Alone
Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here… Continue reading
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Delilah’s Responsibility
I wonder if it was a spiritual experience wonder if blades covered their eyes against the war to which you had grafted them wonder if angels had taken the time to whisper to strands of hair of their coming demise I wonder if they saw laughter dancing in your eyes and if they had prepared… Continue reading
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Give Me Life
Your words are beautiful the way you paint them. Tie descriptions around waterfall, Walk us through frowning mirrors and smothered air, And then auction them off to our fondest senses. Touching us gently enough to resurrect imagination, you have talent and you know it. Cracking open heaven so that we may feel what it’s like… Continue reading
