Morning  (from this side) all: I’ve run some marathons with my legs, and some (albeit non-poetic) with my pen but this will be my first poetry-driven marathon. Any pointers? See you all on the hot seat.   T. Yomi  Obidi

The Sweetest Thing   The sweetest thing that ever lived Was high yellow girl,  born on August 23, 1979 With light brown eyes  And a beautiful smile. Her smile lit up the sky and every room she entered   Too tomboyish for the girls’ world at…

5 ingredients are: quiet time, to reflect time together, unity reflection, for what could have happened but didn’t, so it’s good time to listen,shows I care time to take action, in some way.

I thought I posted this yesterday but cannot find it so here it is   Mom- influential to me and many more I was unaware of She is gone now, May 1 Tributes and memories have filled my FB feed Wow! I never knew it…

It took me a long time to be comfortable where I am   Without you I’m lost with you I’m not I’d rather be together forever.  

Gift of Motherhood and Songs I think I was going to wait so long for paradise, to hold my mother like me at childhood would, to my doll. But you came as an angel, not fallen. It was as if mother resurrected into your body,…

So many times we give a gift wanting something in return. But there is a gift I have received I wonder if you’ve heard.   It is the gift one size fits all and guess what it is free. It’s given to the entire world…

The only gift I ever wanted came to me, The only thing I’ve ever wanted, since I was three When all I ever wanted was to be Happily married To, exactly, only and both: Brad and Dee Forever happened forever and it never came to…

I lay my hands on the bodies of those in pain I feel their suffering as my own Electric currents crackle around my body The barely audible hum of energy like an ethereal aum It is my mission to bring relief to the weary I…