#woc poet

[writerbythesea]

October is here

[jasminesuntrell]

Exhale Pt. 1 (1/30)

Remember when I told you that you broke my vagina? I told you my coochie was more loyal to you than Chrisean to Blueface. You didn't get the joke. Or me. Or I you.

When I said you broke my vagina, I didn't know my vagina was so connected to my heart, my soul, my mind, my pen. Turns out, I am still a human. I am capable of loving with my entire self and whatever limitations I thought I had died when they laid Saviour on my chest.

I birthed two lives that night, One of them mine. I was anew. I have to learn myself again.

And then came you. You were not supposed to happen. I was never supposed to fall in love. But I did. And we crashed. And I broke. You broke me.

I'm still a little fractured honestly. My brain to hands combo ain't worked right since The first time you ran in and out of my life but I'm getting there. And this is my first step.

[mysharona1987]

I will never forget what Rafaat Alareer said about Israeli “liberals.”

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[oddwomen]

Audre Lorde, 1985. Photo by Eric Stephen Jacobs.

[womeninfictionandirl]

Maya Angelou by Marvella Frey

[tayabtheauthor]

I am proudest as a guest

when I am unwanted

I refuse to pluck my eyes out like a plume from ink,

letting my eyelids become black-out curtains.

I’ll gargle the blood rising from the incision through my larynx and let sound waves out when I am to quiet down. Sirens for the apocalypse to some,

I’ll hope against all odds the ships set up to sail will have no lighthouse and I will be all storm.

I’ll unwind the stitch, a tick dug into my pliable grey matter until I find the bomb and speed up the process.

[girluninviteddd]

[agirlnamedbone]

--Lucille Clifton

[ourrainyevenings]

Description of my chapbook and can be purchased at Bottlecap Press in physical or PDF format.

[cokepepsiluvregirl-111]

[lasocia69]

an original poem by me💓

[jasminesuntrell]

[mysharona1987]

[dilfseverydayallday]

I just ride-Lana del Rey

[unblissfullycertain]

Unsent Love Letters (3)

concealed in slumber, i dreamt of your smile. your smile that i miss more than the air i breathe after it has left my lungs, empty and debilitated. i dreamt that you called out to me like you used to and the sound of your voice was the sweetest melody, lulling me into a happiness too far out of grasp for our current reality. i dreamt that the year hadn’t passed by so cruelly and hadn’t left a…