My Relationship With Poetry
Happy #NationalPoetryMonth!! ✨📝🤎 I have been taking a Spanish creative writing course focused on poetry and I’ve been reflecting lately...
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- Jun 28, 2021
- 2 min
A Testimony
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...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 1 min
A Morning Like This
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...
- Nov 10, 2020
- 1 min
Until It's Over
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...
- Mar 21, 2018
- 1 min
To Be
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...
- Feb 5, 2018
- 1 min
Her Glistening Beauty, Her Glistening Power
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...
- Jan 13, 2018
- 1 min
More Than A Glance
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...
- Jan 1, 2018
- 1 min
2018
I 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, 2017
- 1 min
Conversations With The Moon
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...
- Nov 15, 2017
- 1 min
Little Girl
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...
- Nov 14, 2017
- 2 min
Hair
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...
- Nov 2, 2017
- 1 min
Heaven
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...
- Sep 28, 2017
- 1 min
At The Brink
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...
- Sep 13, 2017
- 1 min
My Prayer
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...