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night swim
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slipping into cool lake water
short flowing elementary backstrokes
under pine, and oak boughs
cast in flickering campfire light
then further
out past "the r...
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hold me to this
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becoming softer after every compromise
brittled and self-destructive, we were charring
into sharper malicious states of being
compressing ourselves into mo...
Life happens...
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My baby boy is 12...
My baby girl almost 1...
Life happened so i did not post anything in forever.
Well Same moonlight for our Dreams is coming back.
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THE JEM MOVIE'S SHANA AND COLORISM
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from a decidedly brown-skinned black girl with a big bouncy purple fro to a
beige biracial "safely black" girl with straight hair
This strikes close to hom...
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Hey there, fighter
it will get brighter.
Take a breath, a little deeper
and bring your faith a little higher.
Remember, you are a leader
not a follower..
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Inhale the yawning frost
let it gather and collect
beside your sleepy heart
drowsy from neglect.
Rest your ghostly frame,
hush her muddled drawl.
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oh this is really beautiful. Did you do the artwork also? We are heading into our Spring, which I'm so happy about, but Autumn is a lovely time of year - the fallen leaves make a wonderful carpet. An inspiring time for photography and art.
Hey Missy (^_^) this is a piece from a few years ago...it was a haiku challenge for a group where the moderator used the background image as the inspiration...she didn't credit it to the orginal artist so I always left in on that closed board...until now.
oh this is really beautiful. Did you do the artwork also? We are heading into our Spring, which I'm so happy about, but Autumn is a lovely time of year - the fallen leaves make a wonderful carpet. An inspiring time for photography and art.
ReplyDeleteHey Missy (^_^) this is a piece from a few years ago...it was a haiku challenge for a group where the moderator used the background image as the inspiration...she didn't credit it to the orginal artist so I always left in on that closed board...until now.
ReplyDeleteThis is very beautiful!!! Did you create the artwork also?
ReplyDeleteOkay I see it (your signature)... sorry. But again this is some beautiful artwork. Very peaceful... fall is my favorite season. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh this is beautiful...I would so frame this...
ReplyDeleteFabulous, enlightening ... well done.
ReplyDeleteHaiku is one of my favorite poetic forms and you just wrote a phenomenal Haiku!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to put you on my blogroll...I mean we are poets united now ; )
You have been tagged!
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and there is an award for you as well!!
I love the alchemy image -poem really fits both the background image and my own feelings about fall.
ReplyDeletewell said :D
ReplyDeletevery beautiful work..
ReplyDeleteI like the way you have presented this poem. Very effective. Front row seats are free - wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful, the words and the way it is presented, I loved it. :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is just perfect ... I love it!
ReplyDeleteA perfect presentation of this poem! So refreshing and energizing!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love it!
ReplyDeleteYou've just about said it perfectly! Fall is a spectacular show that I sit and watch with delight, (from my front roos seats)...:)
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful piece of work!
ReplyDeleteI just love the last line....it is perfectly wonderful! :-)
ReplyDeleteAmazing love both the words and image, they fit in so nicely with each other!=P
ReplyDeleteI love this; It so suits the mood of the season!
ReplyDelete"front row seats are free" - yes! so much beauty, ours to be had just for showing up. Thank you...
ReplyDeletefront row seats are free...
ReplyDeletelove your philosophy.