today’s prompt: take your gaze upward, and write a poem about the stars. …… e— wore the grav belt even when they were alone on a field like shards of […]
Tag: love
a time traveling emotion
in the moment, i was not ready to feel the feeling, my skin too firm, my faith too solid. when the future all seemed ahead of me, it was easier […]
a season of love (for all those killed with impunity)
it is our duty to fight for our freedom it is our duty to win we must love each other and protect each other we have nothing to lose but […]
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i move therefore i am
i just completed moving out of the detroit apartment i have lived in for five years. i moved into the apartment directly above it, with my sweetheart. i learned some […]
love scholarship lessons 14-20
14. if i want love, i can’t hurt love. i used to be very cavalier about the idea of boundaries in love. ‘that’s not how humans ARE,’ i’d insist. ‘we […]
home, love, vulnerability, life
I wake for words and feelings. I release them like rescued animals into the wild. The moon lights up many paths. I turn back into the warm house of my […]
love life
there is a lot of love in my life right now. some moments i look around and all i see and feel is love, everywhere. i just spent the weekend […]
napowrimo poem 26: when they chose forever
prompt: write a curtal sonnet. today’s poem is for my beautiful brilliant sweet sister april, my dear friend and comrade and protector and teacher. today she married her beloved brad […]
birthing is divine work (doula reflections)
i got to be a doula this past weekend. i do this work rarely, for loved ones. well…sort of rarely, as i think of all of my work as having […]
beyonce: the conference call
so after my initial reaction to Beyonce’s album, i was still flabbergasted and needing to process. i asked on facebook if others needed that. some people said yes. at 5 […]