Category: Poetry
Art and poetry are powerful tools in the fight for equality, social justice, and peace
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September Poem – Heroics
Heroics is a September poem, a celebration of porridge, blackberries and human resourcefulness and boundless love and energy. Heroics – September Poem First, on rising, she puts down a fire and heats the slate slab and then, using her mother’s rolling pin she rolls oats stolen from the horse’s trough next door right after pinching…
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Woman Poem – Perfect Noise
Perfect Noise is a woman poem, a depiction of the manner in which we choose to express ourselves and on how we must. Perfect Noise – Woman Poem My mother perfected noise when my Father lay on the couch napping, the daily paper heaving in tandem with the clattering of dishes being hopped into the…
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Consequences Poem – 𝚷
𝚷 is a consequences poem, a reflection on the distance between action and reaction and on the need to be mindful of the consequences of what we start. 𝚷 – Consequences Poem And when you make it rain, count the number of drops and measure the height of the ceiling. Factor in the soil’s thirst…
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Reality Poem – Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality is a reality poem, a reflection on what is possible, perspectives, dreams, and on our ability to be human beings. Virtual Reality – Reality Poem With goggles, I can build a paper palace, be the queen and cast gold medals from whey like Lola sculpting a marble David from dust or Pete circling…
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Clarity Poem – Plámás
Plámás is a clarity poem, a reflection on the validity and use of silver linings and sugar coats. my son aged ten told me that taking part isn’t what matters nor is the journey to where you are going much to write home about. plámásing, not his thing.
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Resilience Poetry – The Juggler
The Juggler is a piece of resilience poetry, a reflection on prevailing and persevering through conflict, suffering, and exhaustion. The Juggler – Resilience Poetry Two buckets in hand, one with blood the other full of milky tears the juggler went to the town square fetch a pail of laughter of of passersby crawling through any…
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Motherhood Poem – Some Mother
Some Mother is a motherhood poem, a reflection on the needless death of millions of infants around the world, 2.5 million in 2017. Some Mother – Motherhood Poem If her womb was to be the only safe place for her child, she’d refuse to birth not have her newborn join the two and a half…
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Empowerment Poem – Do I Let You Sing My Songs?
Do I Let You Sing My Songs? is an empowerment poem, a reflection on the economic inequalities rampant around the world. Do I Let You Sing My Songs? – Empowerment Poem Do I let you build schools and teach my children, seeing as you come from money and books, still you don’t know me or…
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Harvest Poem – Root Vegetable Soup
Root Vegetable Soup is a harvest poem, a celebration of the sturdy warmth of potatoes, carrots, onions, parsnips and the joy of sharing food. Root Vegetable Soup She was elbow-deep in soil, digging and Hoping for potatoes, parsnips, and carrots,Praying for turnips, so she could turn out a vegetable soup On Sundays, when everyone was…