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YouTube: New Poem Added! Listen to “All or Nothing” #Poetry #SpokenWord
It’s no longer National Poetry Month but ya’ll know it’s always time for poetry around here! All or Nothing (read it here) is now available. Listen below and don’t forget to subscribe! SUBSCRIBE HERE Thank you for taking this Vlogging journey with me! It’s never easy stepping out and I appreciate your support. Be sure… Continue reading
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The Journey Begins
Originally posted on No Line Left Behind: Thanks for joining me. Like any journey there are uncertainties. But how would we know what the journey holds if we do not at least try to experience it. Introductions are always awkward and sometimes uneasy so we will just jump into it. My name is Tehilayah (pronounced,… Continue reading
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YouTube: New Poems Added! Subscribe Today #NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry #SpokenWord
New poems have been added people! Listen to Her Bended Knee, Truth, I Was Not There and more! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncj3INqkems CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE!! Continue reading
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Her Bended Knee
Once a mother always is they bend their knees to raise our kids they laugh for our broken as if never have cried, for our burden they soothe as if our souls had died they coddle our demons on the top of their heads —colored gray with grief fake smiles and gritted teeth a generation… Continue reading
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Mother to Son | Langston Hughes
Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes goin’ in the dark Where there… Continue reading
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Present | Sonia Sanchez
This woman vomiting her hunger over the world this melancholy woman forgotten before memory came this yellow movement bursting forth like coltrane’s melodies all mouth buttocks moving like palm tress, this honeycoatedalabamianwoman raining rhythm to blue/black/smiles this yellow woman carrying beneath her breasts pleasures without tongues this woman whose body waves desert patterns, this woman… Continue reading
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