A poem on the joys & freedom of getting old

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What Do I Get For Getting Old?  [A beautiful poem by Alice Walker on the joys and  freedom of getting old -  I followed instructions and supplied my own photo - see Alice Walker's photo here] A Picture Story For The Curious ©2011 by Alice Walker (You supply the pictures.)   I get to meditate [...]

Guys fucking guys…

Mia Nikisimo

                      Lugardia kept us in limbo Shackling us with sex in Our see thru straitjackets “You will marry the man We choose for you,” said My frantic father followed By my mousey mother all Silent, all compliant as Ordained by masters of old. Lugardia for [...]

Remembering Busi

Busi died on the 12th March 2007.  One of the few poems she published on her blog “My Realities”  was “Remember Me When I Am Gone” – This year I forgot the day but not Busi.  I think of her often as she was.   In November 2006 she wrote “No one can take it [...]

Come Away My Love

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For my parents   “Come Away My Love” by Joseph Kariuki  Come away my love, from streets Where unkind eyes divide And shop windows reflect our difference In the shelter of my faithful room rest There, safe from opinions, being behind Myself, I can see only you; And in my dark eyes your grey Will dissolve. [...]

WORDS BIG AND SMALL

  rings and roses vanish, fleet and pass without leaving a trace. but words are forever so, speak for this love lives on words and words alone can ink themselves deep into my heart and not rings, not roses, not a new house. no. no. speak and i will live on your words, i will [...]

Gendercide

Ova the poetry of  Bernedette Muthien

From Bernedette Muthien gendercide it took a full week of straitjacketing generations of genocidal femicidal trauma for the clay dam wall to explode and flood me in torrents of collective grief a poet with no words a lifelong activist struck dumb i choke on love for the dead thousands of beautiful women and children a year [...]

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