Happy #NationalPoetryMonth!! ✨📝🤎 I have been taking a Spanish creative writing course focused on poetry and I’ve been reflecting lately...

For my introverted, quiet but not quiet, wanna-be-loud but ain’t, souls You are not the kind of social butterfly they think of my...

The morning reached into me today. said, “look at me. This is yours.” Particles of light rushed to my sight, the world outside me groaned...

Can we make every step a big one? Run through the streets in the rain, ride around when we shouldn’t be, size my hand against yours for...

Co-star says that my heart is afraid to relax. It's true.

full like the sweetest mango my dad gave me years ago. Full like the lines which run above our heads on foggy nights, electricity rushing...

She typed “beauty is power” and when she sat in bed that night she cried. Dark skin never looked so good below the sun’s rays.. making...

he said, “i miss the stars” and I told him that if he looked hard enough then maybe he wouldn’t feel as though they weren’t there. For we...

I think as a relatively new poet, I am always afraid of writing lines that have already been written. Lines that have already been...

Tell me, moon.. How do you glow so bright? How doesn’t what’s happening here on Earth pain you to watch? Do you ever listen? Do you ever...

Some nights I’d stick my face to the wall trying to ease in on conversations between them because no one ever told me not to listen to...

If I had a dime for every time someone told me to straighten my hair I would be rich. But if I had a dime for every time I told myself I...

Help us for we can not always rise alone. Teach us to be as genuine as your holy light. Tell us to wear our culture like your clouds wear...

My room and this distance, awake upon the darkening land, are one. I travel with it to possibilities unknown. With it I become a fearless...

This summer, I came to the realization that I did not love myself. The type of love that everybody needs in order to love another. The...