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21 Jun 2021
A chapter is closed, and another one is opened. Thank you so much for being here.
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18 Jan 2021
Day 230:
How daring and soft are you? If the answer
To the former is a hornet, and to the after
Its pairs of wings, then ascent. How sweet are you?
Are you the curious ant that finds sugar too
And the rest follow your lead..
#blm381 #MartinLutherKingDay
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21 Nov 2021
DEPENDENCE OF THE TRUE BLUE
Stripped of bones
willingly,
piling up their roles
still. Still. Still.
I am
only a sloughed skin
of memory
and postponed
could-be. Wingless
and lofty birdsong
sting their hooks
intravenous;
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18 Nov 2021
CARING FOR THE TRUE BLUE
It seems (time-lapse) I know
I've slipped. The porcelain
of a glossy starling
cups nothing of
what I was. Distinct lines
are falling
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16 Nov 2021
ASSUMPTION OF THE TRUE BLUE
What startles you?
The normalcy of living.
No, what startles you?
The normalcy of underworlds.
Why in plural?
They're a continuum with living.
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14 Nov 2021
SYMPTOM OF THE TRUE BLUE
So mutely
shadowed. So-
so out of sorts.
A less than
unglad conscious chore.
A meaning menace.
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3 Jun 2020
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Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s bus boycott that lasted 381 days, for 381 days, I will protest for #BlackLivesMatter in poetry hashtagged #blm381. This is my commitment to the movement and contribution to the arts of our history as dark-skinned people.
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3 Jun 2020
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Take time to learn and unlearn. A great start would be to follow Rachel on Instagram instagram.com/rachel.cargle/. She does it very meticulously to educate. Then the next ideal step would be to teach your family and friends as well.
Call out racism. Silence is injustice.
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21 Jun 2021
A chapter is closed, and another one is opened. Thank you so much for being here.
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18 Jun 2021
Day 381:
The airy shape of dissolving―higher onward
Than a twig of a fruit tree you've watered
Nowhere surer than to where the sun invites;
Kisses you sweet to rustle the same spice
To delirious dates orchard waiting to ripen.
A new increase. A busyness of joy's riot.
#blm381
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17 Jun 2021
Day 380:
Time kept seasons conclude. Summer springs
A brightening then its sulfurous noontides wins,
Wash away tardily like a repenting Midas.
He says, 'Here's a gift, out of my touch idol,
A late summer bloom...
#blm381
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16 Jun 2021
Day 379:
Harass God―the highest inner self gospel.
Children do it uncool. They topple,
Before learning to walk. Ask for more paper to use
Then crayon further out of lines. Ready to be fools
Before ruling their potential. Fight
Reinventing resistance, cried or by bite.
#blm381
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16 Jun 2021
Friends!! I am beyond excited to announce a live virtual launch of the Midnight With Words Anthology on Saturday, June 26th, 5pm | PST! Please join these wonderful talents and listen as they bedazzle you with wonderful poetry using the link below!! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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15 Jun 2021
Day 378:
Words―the language of signs like altar calls,
Offer themselves just as cascading waterfalls:
Whispering to an ear afar. Thundering done
To a leaned-in ear. Often as the sun―
Starring in and starring out of our familiarity.
Wondrous or fearsome, make a recipe.
#blm381
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14 Jun 2021
Day 377:
Protuberant human body lifted vertically in length
By a pulse and graceful aggression for breath,
Movement and purpose of an individuated psyche.
A homebody with the earth as home―slightly
Recumbent on its axis.
#blm381
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13 Jun 2021
Day 376:
The boldness of will, from the charming young
To the prudent yet sprightly old―all tongued,
Declare servility to that which races the heart
Without undue exhaustion; the delicious lot
To prize, the claws of pain to tame
& say, 'Here's my victory!' unashamed.
#blm381
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12 Jun 2021
Day 375:
Huddled about the media's voice which lulls in,
Informing anxiety, what to hanker after impulsive
Or compulsive quick fix, one size fits all morality,
Frowned upon self-actualization alchemy
And betrayed to wear your skin
In an awkward gait, perturbed within.
#blm381
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11 Jun 2021
Day 374:
Turbulence predicted, and exiled time after time,
Onto a muddy body that dreams of the sublime
Hammocked on small hours' vapors we grasp,
Often, on the hypnotic swaying of seagrass―
Ill-disposed cons attempting to steal a breath
Away.
#blm381
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10 Jun 2021
Day 373:
Dreaming eyes eclipse life to more mellow.
An act of awe at straggling clouds' halo
Under an otherwise stare of a desert's specter―
The stalking mirage that tugs like a tormentor
At skin to wrinkles, a tongue dried
Of words―heavy on the anguish that's unkind.
#blm381
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9 Jun 2021
Day 372:
Lowly feet stretching to the height of we,
Unimpressed & forthcoming will be
To where they're willed―far from pretense,
They blister to warn that's enough miles, relent
For the day, a stubbed toe winces clumsiness,
& callused feats quicken the heart of Venus.
#blm381
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8 Jun 2021
Day 371:
Perceptible of themselves high,
Should these egrets be caged behind closed eyes―
How cramped, they'd have to fold a long neck,
A leg & a leg into an egg yolk in effect―
A paragon for how a storm rushes in convoked
To usher benign weather
#blm381
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7 Jun 2021
Day 370:
Roadside flashing yellow bunches of daisies,
A hazy warning that such grace retires, maybe
Wherever the road halts or crawls down confident
To an open door of unwalled divine providence―
A shush that clocks out the present,
For a possible future and a lesson.
#blm381
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6 Jun 2021
Summer comes and, ‘I’m moving away.’
Up-sets us far away, sunbeam-borne away,
A fall away.
Unpinned by google maps―
Those soul-rupturing, toasty brown eyes
Easing my frown lines―it’s now was.
via @PostScriptLovin
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