#writeonthespot

[ailynkaterin]

Sujetame al arbol que florece. - - #latinx #latinxcreate #latinxwriter #wiritngs #spanish #cuba #viñales #igtravel #yoruba #chango #poems #poema #picsnpens #color #rsa #rsa_nature #wanderlust #writemore #writeonthespot #feministeando (at Viñales, Cuba)

[ailynkaterin]

You cannot make a vacation Out of a home. You either stay to help build it Or you crumble on your own. I am the guard of all my doors And the cornerstone of what I've built. -entry does not mean stay #iphoneonly #writings #writemore #latinx #woc #brownandblack #cuba #picsnpens #girlgaze #womanlymag #writeonthespot #instatravel #igtravel #havanacentral (at Havana, Cuba)

[ailynkaterin]

These hands are usually clumsy But are experts On your skin Precision Pressed In the right places Now navigating lands above the naval Exploring my own surface At last, My skin feels good on me. 📷 @forthexperience - - - - #feministeando #writeonthespot #picsnpens #latinx #latinxcreate #latinxwriters #writersofig #igpoets #igpoem #poetsofig #writings #writemore #vscocam #vermont #igtravel #cabinfever #dimlight #vsco #makeportraits #portraitcommunity #wordgasm #spilledink #selflove #latinxselflove

[ailynkaterin]

They say your ability to love is a reflection of your ability to wait but patience has never been my strength. Timing is never something I can deliver correctly unless it belongs to the words in a story, The spaces where I insert a pause, a bit of wit, a tender kiss when the soul feels dry and reasons to cry when you feel yourself overflowing But words aside I do not know how to wait. Does that mean I do not know how to love? What is love if not the urge To show the world how deeply you feel it? so I thought But now as I become patient with myself I feel the tick and tock of every clock vibrating from the wrist that holds my watch up to the eyes that see the leaves turn the color of my blood My love Myself I am waiting for you Midst the hustle and bustle Of streets filled with other lovers I wait on you Never silently But now gently. You are my changing love. -be patiently gentle with yourself - - - #feministeando #picsnpens #picsnpenschallenge #writeonthespot #latinxselflove #bevisible #latinxcreate #latinxwriters #writer #writing #writemore #selflove #selfcare #igpoets #igpoems #igpoetry #igtravel #buenosaires #santelmo #argentina #igers #allshots_ #vscocam #mood #instamood #moodygrams

[ailynkaterin]

Life is cyclical. Chains are inherited Just as magic is Even though one is more easily found Than the other. Today I was asked what I represented And rather than saying women and my grandmothers and the love I carry from them everyday, I said ownership. Weird, to use a word that brings back ancestral pain and distant memories of when we did not have autonomy over ourselves but a necessary reminder. I said ownership because as women we have been taught to be humble, to be shy, to not claim the power we have or the skill we excel at, or the treasure we are. So today I manifest the ownership of myself and my talents unabashedly. I AM A WRITER I AM A PHOTOGRAPHER I AM CREATIVE I AM HEALING I AM MINE I AM WORTHY OF THE LOVE I DEMAND I AM MAGIC I AM WATER I AM LIGHT I AM BRAVE I AM WORTHY OF THE LOVE I DEMAND I AM WORTHY OF THE LOVE I DEMAND I AM WORTHY OF THE LOVE I RECEIVE I AM WORTHY OF THE LOVE I GIVE I A M W O R T H Y. - -thank you @myndrevolutions for facilitating such a beautiful workshop that got me out of my comfort zone and into a safe space my soul was in need of. I am so fortunate to have you in my life. You are medicine that the world needs.and I thank you for sharing it with me and for reminding me of what is mine. - - #feministeando #picsnpens #writeonthespot #vsco #mood #selflove #feminism #women #mujer #latinx #latinxwomen #latinxwriters #writer #writing #ownit #allahots_ #killeveryshot #shoot2kill #justgotshoot #chasingemotions #communityfirst #artisloveaction #toolsofstrength

[ailynkaterin]

Feeling exposed, watched, caged In the country That supposedly leads The free world. So many people say Well it could be worse, Other countries are in worse positions, But be careful with that. Why should I compare a developed and privileged country to one who is struggling and "undeveloped" Typically because of the very actions taken by the more powerful one? To grow, you must look to those who are doing better not to those more oppressed (because of you) The playing fields aren't the same, The resources are limited, The income is less, The privilege here is greater, So great that this country collectively chose to not look pased it, To not realize it, To not use it for food. -stuck in privilege - - - - #feministeando #newvisualcollective #notmypresident #mood #instamood #instagood #moodygrams #organize #resist #igpoets #latinx #latinxwriters #writemore #writing #picsnpens #writeonthespot #latinafeminist #latinablogger #latina #vsco #killeveryshot #allshots_ #exploremore

[ailynkaterin]

What do you do in cases of emergency?Wanted to provide a temporary change in mood ✨💖 - - Your doses Of sweetness, Uncalculated and sporadic, are the blobs of Vicks I apply to my congested chest When I've been sick for days and finally think of what my mom would do. They're the emergenC's I take when I am desperate to feel better but know they are not exactly long lasting medicine, simply a boost to my defenses That sometimes need to let strangers in to remember how to push them out. They're like the rain showers in Florida Refreshing and bittersweet Necessary. Reminding me with its rainbow goodbye That love comes in many flavors And you never know for how long, where it begins, Or much less where it ends. Sometimes, Your unexpected caricias Come close to feeling like the sun. And I, a constant storm, a hurricane Of thoughts and words and feelings Of hugs and kisses and even petty behaviors, always pouring of myself to others Feel somehow a complicity in your warmth Even if my water will always overpower it And move when it cannot be held the way I need to be but can never allow but often ache for. -en caso de emergencias, tu. #picsnpens #feministeando #writeonthespot #mood #moodygrams #instagood #instamood #temporary #igpoets #latinx #latinxwriters #writemore #writing

[ailynkaterin]

When she speaks of love She bleeds for the beginning or the end She does not know how to do the in between. 📸 @mario_ruben_ - - - - - - #feministeando #Latinx #latinxwriters #writeonthespot #writer #newvisualcollective #mood #moodygrams #moody #instamood #instagood #latina #latinablogger #latinafeminist

[ailynkaterin]

She was a fisher of men looking to see Who would catch the bait And give her the love She was hungry for. But nothing caught on Until she realized She was fish, food, and freedom. And the bait to her heart wasn't between her legs But between her lips Where words blossomed to let her heal and all the other fish were lucky enough just to sit and hear her speak and see the water that poured out of her That quenched their thirst And gave them life. She's a fisher of light Deep sea sights Navigating Away From what chains her: Herself. -Pisces - -We fail to realize how much we set ourselves up for the same old shit. Self imposed chains of habit that are hard to break. It's necessary to pinpoint where in your life you are the toxicity you try to escape from so that you know what routes to avoid what bridges to swim under instead and more importantly what things you must fix within yourself. One of the shots from the Miami sunrise I experienced in real life and not just in an oversized plastic bottle at tiki. It was beautiful and this healing is too. Some days more than others. #feministeando #picsnpens #writeonthespot #latinx #latinxwriters #writemore #writer #moodygrams #mood #instamood #instagood #createexplore #killeveryshot #newvisualcollective #miami #chasingemotions #fishing #girlgaze #writer #writing #skinundone #allshots_ #exploremore #exploreeverything #poet #igpoet #poems #igpoetry #sticksandstones

[ailynkaterin]

I remember the day My mom became a citizen- Of this country, sure, but also of this world. With a piece of paper She regained her identity and adopted a new one Freedom From that last name that haunted her The one that is attached to mine Independence in a country Where that is the ultimate goal Her name A familiar one that was inherited from someone who never belonged to her either Was hers again. Identity, what a weight you are to those who don't have you but look for you In letters and papers and physical features of unfamiliar faces. On this day my mom regained what bit of that she had And she boasted Proud Unlike her perpetually humble self And for the first time In a long time She Marched With her head up high Repeating her new found right to vote. "Ahora puedo votar" An illusion perhaps Of some say in this country And in her life Which has never gone As intended But it was a right she fought for in between the two jobs and the two kids Late at night with the lamp on and her children by her side Rehearsing The states The capitals How her name sounds in English. She fought for it And i witnessed the battle being won. How could I not vote With such a memory? - When I was born with this right - - - - -please tag artist ✨ - #feministeando #projectenye #writeonthespot #picsnpens #mood #latinx #latinxfeminist #latinxwriter #undocumedia #latinos #newvisualcollective #killeveryshot #wynwood #miami #elections #communityfirst #chasingemotion #latina #mujer #madresoltera #motherandfather #allshots #murals #moodygrams #igmood #travel #explore #createexplore (at Miami Wynwood Art District)

[ailynkaterin]

Flashing lights And men in uniforms Have never made me feel safe. From the times they'd stop my dad for no reason at all driving home with a family filled car And my mom would begin to panic- That feeling escaping her skin and filling our heads. Fear filling the car with silence but ready at any point to break and translate. Alert, aware children. Those lights still give me anxiety. I remember The times you knocked on my door insisting to come in without a warrant even though I was alone and I had to explain to you that although I was 19 I knew my rights. This angered you, your white skin red with rage. This was proof enough to me that I was right to question you and challenge you. Then again I remember reporting a man who was harassing me when you asked for proof of the pictures he had of me. Why would you need those on file? You followed me home that night and insisted on coming in but this time my mom was there And in her broken English she asked you what you wanted But you could not answer. I never trusted you I never will And you shouldn't trust me either. I am a photographer And I do not hide behind lies. ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾 This was taken for @cosecha_harvest when they displayed powerful images across the Soho Trump tower to remind people of who built this country. #Latinx #latinxwriters #builtbyus #feministeando #writemore #writeonthespot #picsnpens #mood #moodygrams #createexplore #photostories #newyorkcity #bnwsociety #bnw #undocumedia

[ailynkaterin]

Dia de Muertos is only something I started educating myself on about four years ago when I first painted a calavera on my face and captioned the post "Celebrando a los que se fueron muy rapido". I didn't know then what I know now. My make up was done to represent death but also the light it brings (I used a lot of yellows) and that sign on my forehead means harmony, something I strive for constantly but that is really hard for me to reach. Calaveras is also the term used to describe pieces, stories, and poems written about the ones who've passed. And though I haven't been writing lately, today I write not only for the ones I've loved and lived and who have transcended the human definition of existence, but I also write about my release of the things I no longer want to hold onto in hopes that relinquishing these feelings will free my mothers and their mothers of the hurt their lifetimes brought them. Today I celebrate and liberate. I release And deliver Pain inherited that does not belong to me. Nostalgia for lives my soul remembers but can't tell me. For scars my heart has but can't show. I release the ghosts of loves that too have died and deserve to be celebrated but guided somewhere else far from me. I let go of the anxiety that always feels so foreign when it visits, Surprising me in between beats of highs and lows always playing the same tune of fear. Fear of time and it's speed, and of how little I understand it. Today I set free that same fear that that filled my grandmothers eyes when she spoke of death and instead remember the joy in her eyes when she sang boleros in her rocking chair. I remember her loud laugh at stories that did not include her but that she never missed. I imagine that is what her heaven will look like, filled with music and songs and a cool breeze on a warm day underneath the porch tree with an audience to listen to her sing. . (To be continued) 📸 @mario_ruben_ #release #diademuertos #writeonthespot #writemore #picsnpens #quebajo #latinx #latinafeminist #latinablogger #Abuelas #latina #latinxwriters #writer #writing #dayofthedead (at Barranquilla, Colombia)

[ailynkaterin]

She misses you like she misses her home. A love that's in her bones for a place that is safe and familiar but never permanent. A place that is always changing between this is it or was it ever? -Do I regret it? That's a loaded question. - - - - - - - I told ya'll I've had the feels lately. #feministeando #picsnpens #writeonthespot

[ailynkaterin]

Como una flor que crece apesar del cemento, vida rompiendo dureza, asi crece mi amor por mi. -Un crack a la vez #feministeando #writeonthespot #picsnpens (at El Chalten, Patagonia, Argentina)

[ailynkaterin]

My words are my weapons My touch the "I'm sorry" that trails the scars my tongue leaves on your skin When It cuts you. But what my tongue hurts, My lips heal. Don't they? I am constantly hungry But what you give me Doesn't feed me. So why offer it? Why accept it? Leave But stay a little bit longer. -vascilating in nothingness #picsnpens #stilllife #feministeando #writeonthespot #mood #instamood #instagood #moodygrams #fallcolors #poem #igpoet #igpoets #latinxwriters #latinx #moodaf #allshots_ #latina #latinablogger

[ailynkaterin]

I don't need to write a Long winded poem For the one who will come After me She already sees the shadow I cast And the light I gave For so many years. Instead It will be she Who will write me Poems And they will all be titled Thank you For preparing the land And cultivating the fruit She will feast from. - de nada ✨ #feministeando #picsnpens #writeonthespot #moodaf #mood #instamood #instagood #latinx #latinxwriters #poem #igpoems #igpoets