Letting Go ~By Poeticia
My shadows you grew in your backyard, clandestine photosynthesis with your darkness. I nourished them…
Letting Go ~By Poeticia
My shadows you grew in your backyard, clandestine photosynthesis with your darkness. I nourished them with tears, unsalted over time. The sun came up, I reached deep down, my roots calling out to me. Uprooting them was painful but I heard your darkness scream through my veins. Tearing away from your weeds, I stretched out…
THE MAN IN THE DOORWAY ~BY PAM LEVARI
There once was a little girl so innocent and free-
One morning she work up
That had all been taken
A LESSON FOR THIS SUNDAY ~BY DEREK WALCOTT
The growing idleness of summer grass
With its frail kites of furious butterflies
ONCE UPON A TIME ~ BY GABRIEL OKARA
Once upon a time, son,
they used to laugh with their hearts
and laugh with their eyes:
WHO SAID IT WAS SIMPLE ~BY AUDRE LORDE
There are so many roots to the tree of anger
that sometimes the branches shatter
before they bear.
WHERE THE SIDE WALK ENDS ~BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
THE SUN IN MY ARMS ~BY POETICIA
Your warm embrace
Like a cloak of freedom
Laid the sun in my arms
HOPE ~BY EMILY DICKINSON
Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS ~BY KRISTINA LOUISA CARR
A tiny brown triangle on the finger tip
Promises to explore distant lands on a trip
