Apr 42 minBlogMy Relationship With PoetryHappy #NationalPoetryMonth!! ✨📝🤎 I have been taking a Spanish creative writing course focused on poetry and I’ve been reflecting lately...
Jun 28, 20212 minLong PoemsA TestimonyFor 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...
Feb 26, 20211 minLong PoemsA Morning Like ThisThe morning reached into me today. said, “look at me. This is yours.” Particles of light rushed to my sight, the world outside me groaned...
Nov 10, 20201 minLoveUntil It's OverCan 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...
Mar 21, 20181 minSeed PoemsTo Befull like the sweetest mango my dad gave me years ago. Full like the lines which run above our heads on foggy nights, electricity rushing...
Feb 5, 20181 minSeed PoemsHer Glistening Beauty, Her Glistening PowerShe 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...
Jan 13, 20181 minSeed PoemsMore Than A Glancehe 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...
Jan 1, 20181 minSeed Poems2018I think as a relatively new poet, I am always afraid of writing lines that have already been written. Lines that have already been...
Dec 17, 20171 minSeed PoemsConversations With The MoonTell 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...
Nov 15, 20171 minSeed PoemsLittle GirlSome 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...
Nov 14, 20172 minLong PoemsHairIf 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...
Nov 2, 20171 minSeed PoemsHeavenHelp 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...
Sep 28, 20171 minSeed PoemsAt The BrinkMy room and this distance, awake upon the darkening land, are one. I travel with it to possibilities unknown. With it I become a fearless...
Sep 13, 20171 minSeed PoemsMy PrayerThis 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...