SELF LOVE I am a woman I am a mother, a sister, a daughter I love myself, my family, and my friends. I am passionate about many things That is what makes me who I am today I love the way I look in my…

Running on empty Pre-dawn hollowness A shell of my usual self My words brittle, stilted, halting My emotions devoid of feeling Free-floating angst and anger So great, yet so nebulous. I have no core. My thoughts echo in the vastness as they ricochet between scales…

African myths have many stories of birds loving rest time Loving the taste of worms and insects, and coming down for them. Eneke the bird has learnt to do the extraordinary “Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he…

11pm. Poem 21 Running Running from the flames they lept into the cool blue of Front Street ocean into the smoke covered sea with all the others running.

Text Prompt Write a poem that starts and ends with the word running. Image Prompt

Yoga, meditation, too my body needs you hands touch the floor stretch my brain into four so it can think more hour twenty is here this ritual I hold dear I stretch my hands high for a metaphor of sky then jump up three times…

what is love when it’s one-sided? What is love if you’re not appreciated? what is love when you feel like the journey is just yours? What is this kind of love on rainy days? In the heat? On bad days? What is love when it’s…

DO I NEED YOU? I wrote your value on my hand, But the soap washed it away. I wrote your value on paper. But the wind blew it away. I protected you in my bank, But my busy schedule kept you away. I toiled day…

Destination Unknown I hopped in the car, destination unknown I had no direction in view I took off in the morning, for a break from the chaos But where I was headed, no clue Many choices before me – Air, land or sea And whether…