Over oceans of ideas, cultures, countries raised hands rise to support, supplant the rulers whether democrats, dictators oligarchs they face each other for a time then time rolls on fading them into sepia images rattling history. They leave a thread of wounds and horror littering the globe with tears, mourning hands uplifted, pleading for justice, […]
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watercolor aceo 2018 ‘A warrior’s strength is measured by the size of her heart. She is respectfully humble. She will stand with honor. She will fight with love. In the face of adversity and for the ones she loves, she will be a voice and a…
“We carry the world in our hearts: the oppression of all peoples, the suffering of our friends, the burdens of our enemies, the raping of the Earth, the hunger of the starving, the joy of every laughing child.” —Sister Joan D. Chittister, O.S.B (b. 1936), Benedictine nun, author, and speaker As we wage peace in […]
once upon a chapter i was rubbing your parched lips with sand while date-trees shadowed your masochism. you kept asking for water with a raucous voice, and camels ignored us. you died in my arms then, smearing my cheek with your last breath and naming me Maya and i sieved my sand over you to […]
Sun-god sitting still on Mount Horeb amidst the stark clouds, sweeping towards the swept open space between trees and pawing at white and dark fleshy flesh. Sun-god your pale, smirky lemon face like the grapefruit in Ago-Iwoye Market scribbles dirt patches on my face and made my throat to swill water enough to fill up […]
the peace of the blue dawn
Ahh
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Very good
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I love this poem Jamie. It is something I have a difficult time in doing. We all have unique personalities but mine is always aware to the ‘nth degree that I have so much I have not finished. My books and so many small things. The thought preys on my mind. But here you have made it all beautiful and not to be worried over at all. You have been posting some really beautiful poems lately Jamie. As you would say “Poem On”!
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I know. We want to complete everything, but there is beauty in promise and all will be attended to in time, no? And maybe some times the lessons are in the start and then we let go the project. No need to carry on. Poem on, Renee, and keep the faith.
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Yes! What amazes me is that I can hold in my heart the two opposing beliefs that my life is only half lived and that I’ve lived a life that is so full that it feel complete.
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Yes! Lovely. Well said.
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And cookie dough before it’s baked? 😉
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LOL! … yes indeed! Yum!
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