Poetry
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Robert Frost
Poetry has the ability to immerse you in a story instantaneously. You naturally want to flow with the rhythm and experience the words instead of reading them. That’s what caught our attention with our featured poets; their prose was magnetic and left us wanting more. We hope you feel the same way.
Admiration for Native Americans as a Neurodivergent Black Woman
“This is exactly what I long to have in my heritage, my community.
This is what black people need to understand about us.
We are neurodivergent. We are human. We are whole. We are strong. We are black. We are Americans.”
Some Mornings
“Their branches rise like antlers in a ceremony for a thing of holiness
& why shouldn't buds come from nubs so the bark beasts
may know worship instead of bullrings featuring arrows & swords?”
Spring Equinox
“I feel my feet on the warm earth
The sigh of green blades bending to wind
And little dots of flowers making their own return”
The Darkness Has Had Enough
“To sidle up to its lover’s back
And feel how skin sticks together
When sweat and effort have been made”
Meditation Between Thresholds
“we stand not in the past or the future,
but in the shimmering seam between them,
where possibility gathers like dew.”
Winter In America
“We won’t eat our way out of this
Ice threatens and splinters the boughs
But from under I see how far the roots go”
The Would-Be Soldier
“He was angry there for a time
and, rather than just cursing the invaders,
ready to act.”
The Accidental Roommate
“Now, you should be repotted; you're practically
out of dirt. I don't know where the roots go
to find their nourishment, but you keep climbing.”
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Share the poetry you’ve been living with: the piece that surprises you, the one you’re obsessed with, or the one that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Whatever your voice, whatever your vision, this is a place for your poetry to be seen.