Category: woman

• January 24, 2024

  Embarrassing Journal Post: Get Your Eagle On

  I been a dark skin sista all my life. Whether in a afro, locks, relaxed or tightly bound braids. I have spent my days as a black woman through and through. During my youth, I spent many days and nights feeling as though my blackness never matched up to societal norms. Growing up I wasn’t…
• January 8, 2024

  Roses

  No fillers Synthetics Or dying petals Of long forgotten moments  I want to smell the red roses While breath fills my lungs And laughter pushes my teeth forward As the light brightens my eyes When kisses cover my pink cheeks With exquisite delight Holding onto the feeling As my womb grows from the beauty of…
• December 31, 2023

  Polaroids of a Lighthouse

  I admit I’m not the same women in the Polaroids anymore. I had to change to survive. To hold onto to the light that I thought had died. I spent time fighting to survive. Every note I sung off-key. Every quit moment full of contemplation and maybes. I still fill up with thoughts or you.…
• December 30, 2023

  Riddles

  With my mind I try to unravel The questions I never cared to address? Holes that led to nowhere? Inquisitive faces that point to unsolved riddles You hide from me Running reluctantly but moving further and further away none the less Your brown hair is shinning like brink red fire in the sunshine A chair…
• December 30, 2023

  All or Nothing

  I don’t know why I do this to myself Looking toward midnight with flickers of twilight in your eyes Wonder if your ever real at all Telling the truth Always ready to fall But it seems like love always calls to deaf ears I don’t know why I do this to myself To kiss you…
• March 8, 2022

  Girl Child

  Girl child,  Don’t you talk too loud  Men don’t like a woman yelling  And carrying on  Only lite words that reek of diet soda Can come from your lips  And eat a little less  Watch your hips You don’t wanna gain too much weight  Don’t ask questions only do as your told  Deny your spirit …
• June 18, 2020

  Just a Thought: We Are

  We Are we are not monolithic we speak different tongues come from many lands come in many colors   spread over space and time we were here when civilization began with night on our back   and a flame in our hand the first woman to give birth to man some call us… the dawn…