Love Letter Ha! What a life. Hello! Hope this letter finds you well. It's been sometimes since I have written to you, which does not mean that I have not thought about you. I just have been writing for myself. To not think of you would be too hard for me, and I don't … Continue reading Love Letter – Back from BM 2017
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – [The world is a beautiful place]
Lawrence Ferlinghetti The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don't mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in heaven they don't sing all the time The world is a … Continue reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti – [The world is a beautiful place]
Letter To James Baldwin on his Birthday
Dear James, Happy Birthday. Today you would have been 93, which is very old, and you might have not liked to see what has become of the world, especially the United States, after having to see Malcolm, Martin, Medgar, Fred, and many other wonderful beings leave this world in such young age. I know, it … Continue reading Letter To James Baldwin on his Birthday
How To Sew A Button
How To Sew A Button last night I learned how to sew a button, well, you taught me how to do so, and now I think I have learned. this morning Pablo Neruda woke up in my mouth, tomorrow is … Continue reading How To Sew A Button
Pablo Neruda Ode – To Clothes
Poem: Pablo Neruda Ode To Clothes Every morning you wait, clothes, over a chair, to fill yourself with my vanity, my love, my hope, my body. Barely risen from sleep, I relinquish the water, enter your sleeves, my legs look for the hollows of your legs, and so embraced by your indefatigable faithfulness I rise, … Continue reading Pablo Neruda Ode – To Clothes
Emily Dickinson – I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody! Who are you? I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To … Continue reading Emily Dickinson – I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Robert Pinsky – Samurai Song
Rant: The road is long long long! There are times that I wake frightened, looking at the last weak string holding me connected to this world. I look at this string from the edge of my bed, which could feel like edge of the known universe to me, a millions of miles away from the surface, (and … Continue reading Robert Pinsky – Samurai Song
Naomi Shihab Nye – Gate A-4
Happy Fridayz! OMG this is so freaking beautiful! Yes, to this world of Naomi and sharing! Yes to the powdered sugared web of existence and connection! Yes to cookies! Yes to poems hidden in your ears, and to ripe avocados, and ability help others, and sun dresses, and kindness, to be able to love, and … Continue reading Naomi Shihab Nye – Gate A-4
Nazim Hikmet – Hiroshima Child
For Nabra Hassanen, Dear Nabra, I have never heard of you until the news talked about you - and how I wish I have never heard your name, and how I wish you were alive. You have been dead for a few days now, and I am thinking of you and many beautiful young children whose … Continue reading Nazim Hikmet – Hiroshima Child
Nikki Giovanni – Resignation
Happy Summer Solstice, Y'all! I hope love is being served in every bite of every watermelon, and corn is being grilled in the backyard, and eyes are being filled with kindness. I hope that you are taking a nap under a magnificent magnolia tree, and I hope birds are washing their wings somewhere in the … Continue reading Nikki Giovanni – Resignation
One Poem At A Time 