Currently I am participating in a workshop with poet and activist Joey De Jesus, Unsettling the Wor(l)d from The Liminal Lab. I wanted to share the poems I crafted from their prompts, especially since I wrote them during this stressful week. I hope you are feeling a bit lighter today!
Image Credit: dejesus2020.com
Neon Arts
Commonpoint Queens’ Hoodoo Tarot
Funk Apostles :: American Gods
G_ND__L_RS Daughter :: Voices Beyond Bondage
Phoning Home Special Moments
A Morning Prayer for Healing
An Evening Prayer for Restoration
Community happens here
Black Venus Diaspora Diaries
Great Wine
Made Simple Bunk
The Happening
How to Write a Thesis
And Sometimes They Fly
Web Rebel Books Membership
Why Did I Become
Transformative Justice
The Body in Language :: Enlightenment Magic :: Mantra Infusion
Canon Legacy :: Game History :: Power Shot
Broken America :: Com/Fort Quest
Lest We Forget
Receiving Sybils Oraculum on Election Day
Laminated ruins of images on cards
Symbols from a before time
A book-like grotto
The Blue Moon whispered in IG screen capture
Decide for yourself
I pulled a card while watching cartoons
Parents watching the news in the other room
Waiting for results between red and blue
What is the count? Still waiting
For what am I truly waiting?
The card is a questioning
Two dove feathers cross
A tuning trinity on its side between them
Reminds me of know thyself
What I once was before I was fractured
Plucked of wings
The sound of the dove is my poem
My offering to the world
I sing it to myself for comfort
Wading through the blue waters
Is my poem
Waiting becomes my poem
Becomes a prayer and sermon
A higher love that Whitney sings to me
I pray to make the world green with vitality
Beyond this false illusion of beauty and growth
The waiting is the growth
To remember the function of my blossoming in this world
To be more than this fractured world
The Gold of Guilt (Stop Playing the Myth of Innocence)
But nobody wanna be a nigga
Wanna be the in/noc
The un/nigga
To not have a skin full of blemish of blame
To not face death as oneself everyday
To not have a choice but face its gravity its weight its wait to be
Wanna be a monstrosity of light
Wanna be living into eternity
Nobody wanna pay up for wrong
Make someone else pay
Make them a token
Make them a property
The Monstrous slave
So the un/nigga can play hero
Can play the cowardly role of good
Everybody wanna be a nigga
The cool
The “perfect” victim
The “perfect” criminal
The All in All of a/void a wound a brokenness
The In/Nigga is the honesty the repair
The giving up the pain to feel truly light
The In/Nigga is the confession that there is always someone
I have hurt including myself
And I must sit within that Nigga
Sherese Francis: Futuristically Ancient 